Export Metrics to External Time-Series Databases

Netdata natively provides long-term metrics retention through its tiered database design. This architecture delivers significantly longer retention (months to years) and faster queries (typically 20+ times faster) compared to other common time-series databases.

For integration with other observability tools, Netdata includes exporters that copy metrics to third-party time-series databases for additional analysis or integration with other tools.

Exporting Capabilities

The exporting engine provides these key features:

• Multi-database support: Export to more than thirty databases including InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite, ElasticSearch, and more
• Downsampling: Configure export intervals from Netdata's per-second metrics (e.g., per minute)
• Simultaneous exports: Send metrics to multiple time-series databases at once
• Flexible data processing: Export metrics as-collected, normalized averages, or sum/volume over configured intervals
• Selective exporting: Filter specific charts based on your needs and allocated resources

Supported Databases

Netdata exports metrics to the following databases through various connectors. Each connector includes documentation with enabling instructions.

Database	Supported Connectors
AppOptics	Prometheus remote write
AWS Kinesis	AWS Kinesis Data Streams
Azure Data Explorer	Prometheus remote write
Azure Event Hubs	Prometheus remote write
Blueflood	Graphite
Chronix	Prometheus remote write
Cortex	Prometheus remote write
CrateDB	Prometheus remote write
ElasticSearch	Graphite, Prometheus remote write
Gnocchi	Prometheus remote write
Google BigQuery	Prometheus remote write
Google Cloud Pub/Sub	Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service
Graphite	Graphite, Prometheus remote write
InfluxDB	Graphite, Prometheus remote write
IRONdb	Prometheus remote write
JSON	JSON document databases
Kafka	Prometheus remote write
KairosDB	Graphite, OpenTSDB
M3DB	Prometheus remote write
MetricFire	Prometheus remote write
MongoDB	MongoDB
New Relic	Prometheus remote write
OpenTSDB	OpenTSDB, Prometheus remote write
PostgreSQL	Prometheus remote write via PostgreSQL Prometheus Adapter
Prometheus	Prometheus scraper
TimescaleDB	Prometheus remote write, netdata-timescale-relay
QuasarDB	Prometheus remote write
SignalFx	Prometheus remote write
Splunk	Prometheus remote write
TiKV	Prometheus remote write
Thanos	Prometheus remote write
VictoriaMetrics	Prometheus remote write
Wavefront	Prometheus remote write

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