Add a description to proc.plugin/README.md (#14935)
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# OS provided metrics (proc.plugin)
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+`proc.plugin` gathers metrics from the /proc and /sys folders in Linux systems, along with a few other endpoints, and is responsible for the bulk of the system metrics collected and visualized by Netdata.
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+This plugin is not an external plugin, but one of Netdata's threads.
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+In detail, it collects metrics from:
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- `/proc/net/dev` (all network interfaces for all their values)
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- `/proc/diskstats` (all disks for all their values)
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- `/proc/mdstat` (status of RAID arrays)