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 Design goals are to have a minimal memory footprint with a plugin system so
 that developers in the community can easily add support for collecting metrics
-from well known services (like Hadoop, Postgres, or Redis) and third party
-APIs (like Mailchimp, AWS CloudWatch, or Google Analytics).
+from local or remote services.
 
 Telegraf is plugin-driven and has the concept of 4 distinct plugins: