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 [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/prometheus/node_exporter)][goreportcard]
 
 Prometheus exporter for hardware and OS metrics exposed by \*NIX kernels, written
-in Go with pluggable metric collectors.
+in Go.
 
 The [WMI exporter](https://github.com/martinlindhe/wmi_exporter) is recommended for Windows users.
 To expose NVIDIA GPU metrics, [prometheus-dcgm