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 # Bond Input Plugin
 
-The Bond Input plugin collects network bond interface status, bond's slaves interfaces
-status and failures count of bond's slaves interfaces.
+The Bond input plugin collects network bond interface status for both the
+network bond interface as well as slave interfaces.
 The plugin collects these metrics from `/proc/net/bonding/*` files.
 
 ### Configuration: