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<p>Imho is STATUS - Output|perf the best option.</p>
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<p>Yes, personally I'd let plugins use that format on the command line and I'd omit the <code>STATUS</code> when called from Icinga/whatever.</p>

<p>An option that makes this configurable should make everybody happy (I hope).</p>

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