Merge pull request #427 from kbingham/version_fix

[collectd.git] / src / collectd.conf.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod
index 008c158..cd98685 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@ -1544,6 +1544,16 @@ it should be able to handle integer an floating point types, as well as strings
 
 There must be at least one B<ValuesFrom> option inside each B<Result> block.
 
+=item B<MetadataFrom> [I<column0> I<column1> ...]
+
+Names the columns whose content is used as metadata for the data sets
+that are dispatched to the daemon. 
+
+The actual data type in the columns is not that important. The plugin will
+automatically cast the values to the right type if it know how to do that. So
+it should be able to handle integer an floating point types, as well as strings
+(if they include a number at the beginning).
+
 =back
 
 =head3 B<Database> blocks
@@ -2540,7 +2550,7 @@ The following options are valid inside the B<PluginE<nbsp>mic> block:
 
 =item B<ShowCPU> B<true>|B<false>
 
-If enabled (the default) a sum of the CPU usage accross all cores is reported.
+If enabled (the default) a sum of the CPU usage across all cores is reported.
 
 =item B<ShowCPUCores> B<true>|B<false>
 
@@ -6558,7 +6568,7 @@ want to set B<metadata.broker.list> to your Kafka broker list.
 
 =head2 Plugin C<write_riemann>
 
-The I<write_riemann plugin> will send values to I<Riemann>, a powerfull stream
+The I<write_riemann plugin> will send values to I<Riemann>, a powerful stream
 aggregation and monitoring system. The plugin sends I<Protobuf> encoded data to
 I<Riemann> using UDP packets.