# 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).
**PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS PLUGIN FOR OVS-DPDK**. dpdkstat is really for DPDK
applications that have no other way of exposing stats. For OVS or OVS-with-DPDK the
-Open vSwitch plugins available in collectd Version 5.8.0 should be used for
+Open vSwitch plugins available in collectd 5.8.0 should be used for
collecting stats and events. In addition the OVS plugin is events based rather
than polling based and will have a smaller footprint on the system.