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# Exec Plugin
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The exec plugin can execute arbitrary commands which return flattened
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JSON.
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For example, if you have a json-returning command called mycollector, you could
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setup the exec plugin with:
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```
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[[exec.commands]]
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command = "/usr/bin/mycollector --output=json"
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name = "mycollector"
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interval = 10
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```
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The name is used as a prefix for the measurements.
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The interval is used to determine how often a particular command should be run. Each
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time the exec plugin runs, it will only run a particular command if it has been at least
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`interval` seconds since the exec plugin last ran the command.
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