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title: External plugins
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description:
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name: External plugins
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weight: 50
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[External plugins](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/blob/master/EXTERNAL_PLUGINS.md) are external programs that are built outside
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of Telegraf that can run through an `execd` plugin. These external plugins allow for
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more flexibility compared to internal Telegraf plugins. Benefits to using external plugins include:
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- Access to libraries not written in Go
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- Using licensed software (not available to open source community)
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- Including large dependencies that would otherwise bloat Telegraf
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- Using your external plugin immediately without waiting for the Telegraf team to publish
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- Easily convert plugins between internal and external using the [shim](/plugins/common/shim)
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