From: Maryam Tahhan <maryam.tahhan@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:36:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: docs: dpdk extended the initial note
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docs: dpdk extended the initial note
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diff --git a/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md b/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md
index 55ee06bc..b60c1820 100644
--- a/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md
+++ b/docs/BUILD.dpdkstat.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # The dpdkstat plugin
 
+This plugin is optional and only has a specific use case: monitoring DPDK applications
+that don't expose stats in any other way than the DPDK xstats API.
+
 **Data Plane Development Kit** (DPDK) is a set of drivers and libraries for fast
 packet processing. Please note that this plugin is a polling based plugin rather
 than an events based plugin (using it will drive up core utilization on a system).