Merging upstream version 1.42.0.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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diff --git a/exporting/aws_kinesis/metadata.yaml b/exporting/aws_kinesis/metadata.yaml
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+# yamllint disable rule:line-length
+---
+id: 'export-aws-kinesis'
+meta:
+  name: 'AWS Kinesis'
+  link: 'https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/'
+  categories:
+    - export
+  icon_filename: 'aws-kinesis.svg'
+keywords:
+  - exporter
+  - AWS
+  - Kinesis
+overview:
+  exporter_description: |
+    Export metrics to AWS Kinesis Data Streams
+  exporter_limitations: ''
+setup:
+  prerequisites:
+    list:
+      - title: ''
+        description: |
+          - First [install](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/setup.html) AWS SDK for C++
+          - Here are the instructions when building from source, to ensure 3rd party dependencies are installed:
+            ```bash
+            git clone --recursive https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp.git
+            cd aws-sdk-cpp/
+            git submodule update --init --recursive
+            mkdir BUILT
+            cd BUILT
+            cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_ONLY=kinesis ..
+            make
+            make install
+            ```
+          - `libcrypto`, `libssl`, and `libcurl` are also required to compile Netdata with Kinesis support enabled.
+          - Next, Netdata should be re-installed from the source. The installer will detect that the required libraries are now available.
+  configuration:
+    file:
+      name: 'exporting.conf'
+    options:
+      description: |
+        Netdata automatically computes a partition key for every record with the purpose to distribute records across available shards evenly.
+        The following options can be defined for this exporter.
+      folding:
+        title: 'Config options'
+        enabled: true
+      list:
+        - name: 'enabled'
+          default_value: 'no'
+          description: 'Enables or disables an exporting connector instance (yes|no).'
+          required: true
+        - name: 'destination'
+          default_value: 'no'
+          description: 'Accepts a space separated list of hostnames, IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) and ports to connect to. Netdata will use the first available to send the metrics.'
+          required: true
+          detailed_description: |
+            The format of each item in this list, is: [PROTOCOL:]IP[:PORT].
+            - PROTOCOL can be udp or tcp. tcp is the default and only supported by the current exporting engine.
+            - IP can be XX.XX.XX.XX (IPv4), or [XX:XX...XX:XX] (IPv6). For IPv6 you can to enclose the IP in [] to separate it from the port.
+            - PORT can be a number of a service name. If omitted, the default port for the exporting connector will be used.
+
+            Example IPv4:
+              ```yaml
+              destination = 10.11.14.2:4242 10.11.14.3:4242 10.11.14.4:4242
+              ```
+            Example IPv6 and IPv4 together:
+            ```yaml
+            destination = [ffff:...:0001]:2003 10.11.12.1:2003
+            ```
+            When multiple servers are defined, Netdata will try the next one when the previous one fails.
+        - name: 'username'
+          default_value: 'my_username'
+          description: 'Username for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'password'
+          default_value: 'my_password'
+          description: 'Password for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'data source'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Selects the kind of data that will be sent to the external database. (as collected|average|sum)'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'hostname'
+          default_value: '[global].hostname'
+          description: 'The hostname to be used for sending data to the external database server.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'prefix'
+          default_value: 'Netdata'
+          description: 'The prefix to add to all metrics.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'update every'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            Frequency of sending sending data to the external database, in seconds.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata will add some randomness to this number, to prevent stressing the external server when many Netdata servers
+            send data to the same database. This randomness does not affect the quality of the data, only the time they are sent.
+        - name: 'buffer on failures'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            The number of iterations (`update every` seconds) to buffer data, when the external database server is not available.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            If the server fails to receive the data after that many failures, data loss on the connector instance is expected (Netdata will also log it).
+        - name: 'timeout ms'
+          default_value: '2 * update_every * 1000'
+          description: 'The timeout in milliseconds to wait for the external database server to process the data.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send hosts matching'
+          default_value: 'localhost *'
+          description: |
+            Hosts filter. Determines which hosts will be sent to the external database. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern#simple-patterns).
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Includes one or more space separated patterns, using * as wildcard (any number of times within each pattern).
+            The patterns are checked against the hostname (the localhost is always checked as localhost), allowing us to
+            filter which hosts will be sent to the external database when this Netdata is a central Netdata aggregating multiple hosts.
+
+            A pattern starting with `!` gives a negative match. So to match all hosts named `*db*` except hosts containing `*child*`,
+            use `!*child* *db*` (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the hostname will be used - positive or negative).
+        - name: 'send charts matching'
+          default_value: '*'
+          description: |
+            One or more space separated patterns (use * as wildcard) checked against both chart id and chart name.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            A pattern starting with ! gives a negative match. So to match all charts named apps.* except charts ending in *reads,
+            use !*reads apps.* (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the chart id or the chart name will be used,
+            positive or negative). There is also a URL parameter filter that can be used while querying allmetrics. The URL parameter
+            has a higher priority than the configuration option.
+        - name: 'send names instead of ids'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls the metric names Netdata should send to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata supports names and IDs for charts and dimensions. Usually IDs are unique identifiers as read by the system and names
+            are human friendly labels (also unique). Most charts and metrics have the same ID and name, but in several cases they are
+            different : disks with device-mapper, interrupts, QoS classes, statsd synthetic charts, etc.
+        - name: 'send configured labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if host labels defined in the `[host labels]` section in `netdata.conf` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send automatic labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if automatically created labels, like `_os_name` or `_architecture` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+    examples:
+      folding:
+        enabled: true
+        title: ''
+      list:
+        - name: 'Example configuration'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: 'Basic configuration'
+          config: |
+            [kinesis:my_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = us-east-1
+        - name: 'Configuration with AWS credentials'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: 'Add `:https` modifier to the connector type if you need to use the TLS/SSL protocol. For example: `remote_write:https:my_instance`.'
+          config: |
+            [kinesis:my_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = us-east-1
+                # AWS credentials
+                aws_access_key_id = your_access_key_id
+                aws_secret_access_key = your_secret_access_key
+                # destination stream
+                stream name = your_stream_name
diff --git a/exporting/graphite/metadata.yaml b/exporting/graphite/metadata.yaml
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+# yamllint disable rule:line-length
+---
+- &graphexport
+  id: 'export-graphite'
+  meta: &meta
+    name: 'Graphite'
+    link: 'https://graphite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/'
+    categories:
+      - export
+    icon_filename: 'graphite.png'
+  keywords:
+    - exporter
+    - graphite
+    - remote write
+    - time series
+  overview:
+    exporter_description: |
+      Use the Graphite connector for the exporting engine to archive your Netdata metrics to Graphite providers for long-term storage,
+      further analysis, or correlation with data from other sources.
+    exporter_limitations: ''
+  setup:
+    prerequisites:
+      list:
+        - title: ''
+          description: |
+            - You have already installed Netdata and Graphite.
+    configuration:
+      file:
+        name: 'exporting.conf'
+      options:
+        description: 'The following options can be defined for this exporter.'
+        folding:
+          title: 'Config options'
+          enabled: true
+        list:
+          - name: 'enabled'
+            default_value: 'no'
+            description: 'Enables or disables an exporting connector instance (yes|no).'
+            required: true
+          - name: 'destination'
+            default_value: 'no'
+            description: 'Accepts a space separated list of hostnames, IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) and ports to connect to. Netdata will use the first available to send the metrics.'
+            required: true
+            detailed_description: |
+              The format of each item in this list, is: [PROTOCOL:]IP[:PORT].
+              - PROTOCOL can be udp or tcp. tcp is the default and only supported by the current exporting engine.
+              - IP can be XX.XX.XX.XX (IPv4), or [XX:XX...XX:XX] (IPv6). For IPv6 you can to enclose the IP in [] to separate it from the port.
+              - PORT can be a number of a service name. If omitted, the default port for the exporting connector will be used.
+
+              Example IPv4:
+                ```yaml
+                destination = 10.11.14.2:2003 10.11.14.3:4242 10.11.14.4:2003
+                ```
+              Example IPv6 and IPv4 together:
+              ```yaml
+              destination = [ffff:...:0001]:2003 10.11.12.1:2003
+              ```
+              When multiple servers are defined, Netdata will try the next one when the previous one fails.
+          - name: 'username'
+            default_value: 'my_username'
+            description: 'Username for HTTP authentication'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'password'
+            default_value: 'my_password'
+            description: 'Password for HTTP authentication'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'data source'
+            default_value: ''
+            description: 'Selects the kind of data that will be sent to the external database. (as collected|average|sum)'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'hostname'
+            default_value: '[global].hostname'
+            description: 'The hostname to be used for sending data to the external database server.'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'prefix'
+            default_value: 'netdata'
+            description: 'The prefix to add to all metrics.'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'update every'
+            default_value: '10'
+            description: |
+              Frequency of sending sending data to the external database, in seconds.
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              Netdata will add some randomness to this number, to prevent stressing the external server when many Netdata servers
+              send data to the same database. This randomness does not affect the quality of the data, only the time they are sent.
+          - name: 'buffer on failures'
+            default_value: '10'
+            description: |
+              The number of iterations (`update every` seconds) to buffer data, when the external database server is not available.
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              If the server fails to receive the data after that many failures, data loss on the connector instance is expected (Netdata will also log it).
+          - name: 'timeout ms'
+            default_value: '20000'
+            description: 'The timeout in milliseconds to wait for the external database server to process the data.'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'send hosts matching'
+            default_value: 'localhost *'
+            description: |
+              Hosts filter. Determines which hosts will be sent to the external database. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern#simple-patterns).
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              Includes one or more space separated patterns, using * as wildcard (any number of times within each pattern).
+              The patterns are checked against the hostname (the localhost is always checked as localhost), allowing us to
+              filter which hosts will be sent to the external database when this Netdata is a central Netdata aggregating multiple hosts.
+
+              A pattern starting with `!` gives a negative match. So to match all hosts named `*db*` except hosts containing `*child*`,
+              use `!*child* *db*` (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the hostname will be used - positive or negative).
+          - name: 'send charts matching'
+            default_value: '*'
+            description: |
+              One or more space separated patterns (use * as wildcard) checked against both chart id and chart name.
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              A pattern starting with ! gives a negative match. So to match all charts named apps.* except charts ending in *reads,
+              use !*reads apps.* (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the chart id or the chart name will be used,
+              positive or negative). There is also a URL parameter filter that can be used while querying allmetrics. The URL parameter
+              has a higher priority than the configuration option.
+          - name: 'send names instead of ids'
+            default_value: ''
+            description: 'Controls the metric names Netdata should send to the external database (yes|no).'
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              Netdata supports names and IDs for charts and dimensions. Usually IDs are unique identifiers as read by the system and names
+              are human friendly labels (also unique). Most charts and metrics have the same ID and name, but in several cases they are
+              different : disks with device-mapper, interrupts, QoS classes, statsd synthetic charts, etc.
+          - name: 'send configured labels'
+            default_value: ''
+            description: 'Controls if host labels defined in the `[host labels]` section in `netdata.conf` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'send automatic labels'
+            default_value: ''
+            description: 'Controls if automatically created labels, like `_os_name` or `_architecture` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+            required: false
+      examples:
+        folding:
+          enabled: true
+          title: ''
+        list:
+          - name: 'Example configuration'
+            folding:
+              enabled: false
+            description: 'Basic configuration'
+            config: |
+              [graphite:netdata]
+                  enabled = yes
+                  destination = localhost:2003
+          - name: 'Configuration with HTTPS and HTTP authentication'
+            folding:
+              enabled: false
+            description: 'Add `:https` modifier to the connector type if you need to use the TLS/SSL protocol. For example: `remote_write:https:my_instance`.'
+            config: |
+              [graphite:netdata]
+                  enabled = yes
+                  destination = localhost:2003
+                  username = my_username
+                  password = my_password
+          - name: 'Detailed Configuration for a remote, secure host'
+            folding:
+              enabled: false
+            description: 'Add `:https` modifier to the connector type if you need to use the TLS/SSL protocol. For example: `remote_write:https:my_instance`.'
+            config: |
+              [graphite:https:netdata]
+                  enabled = yes
+                  username = my_username
+                  password = my_password
+                  destination = 10.10.1.114:2003
+                  # data source = average
+                  # prefix = netdata
+                  # hostname = my_hostname
+                  # update every = 10
+                  # buffer on failures = 10
+                  # timeout ms = 20000
+                  # send names instead of ids = yes
+                  # send charts matching = *
+                  # send hosts matching = localhost *
+- <<: *graphexport
+  id: 'export-blueflood'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Blueflood
+    link: http://blueflood.io/
+    icon_filename: 'blueflood.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - Blueflood
+      - graphite
+- <<: *graphexport
+  id: 'export-influxdb'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: InfluxDB
+    link: https://www.influxdata.com/
+    icon_filename: 'influxdb.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - InfluxDB
+      - Influx
+      - export
+      - graphite
+- <<: *graphexport
+  id: 'export-kairosdb'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: KairosDB
+    link: https://kairosdb.github.io/
+    icon_filename: 'kairos.png'
+    keywords:
+      - KairosDB
+      - kairos
+      - export
+      - graphite
diff --git a/exporting/json/metadata.yaml b/exporting/json/metadata.yaml
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+++ b/exporting/json/metadata.yaml
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+# yamllint disable rule:line-length
+---
+id: 'export-json'
+meta:
+  name: 'JSON'
+  link: 'https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/exporting/json-document-databases'
+  categories:
+    - export
+  icon_filename: 'json.svg'
+keywords:
+  - exporter
+  - json
+overview:
+  exporter_description: |
+    Use the JSON connector for the exporting engine to archive your agent's metrics to JSON document databases for long-term storage,
+    further analysis, or correlation with data from other sources
+  exporter_limitations: ''
+setup:
+  prerequisites:
+    list:
+      - title: ''
+        description: ''
+  configuration:
+    file:
+      name: 'exporting.conf'
+    options:
+      description: |
+        The following options can be defined for this exporter.
+      folding:
+        title: 'Config options'
+        enabled: true
+      list:
+        - name: 'enabled'
+          default_value: 'no'
+          description: 'Enables or disables an exporting connector instance (yes|no).'
+          required: true
+        - name: 'destination'
+          default_value: 'pubsub.googleapis.com'
+          description: 'Accepts a space separated list of hostnames, IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) and ports to connect to. Netdata will use the first available to send the metrics.'
+          required: true
+          detailed_description: |
+            The format of each item in this list, is: [PROTOCOL:]IP[:PORT].
+            - PROTOCOL can be udp or tcp. tcp is the default and only supported by the current exporting engine.
+            - IP can be XX.XX.XX.XX (IPv4), or [XX:XX...XX:XX] (IPv6). For IPv6 you can to enclose the IP in [] to separate it from the port.
+            - PORT can be a number of a service name. If omitted, the default port for the exporting connector will be used.
+
+            Example IPv4:
+              ```yaml
+              destination = localhost:5448
+              ```
+            When multiple servers are defined, Netdata will try the next one when the previous one fails.
+        - name: 'username'
+          default_value: 'my_username'
+          description: 'Username for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'password'
+          default_value: 'my_password'
+          description: 'Password for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'data source'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Selects the kind of data that will be sent to the external database. (as collected|average|sum)'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'hostname'
+          default_value: '[global].hostname'
+          description: 'The hostname to be used for sending data to the external database server.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'prefix'
+          default_value: 'Netdata'
+          description: 'The prefix to add to all metrics.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'update every'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            Frequency of sending sending data to the external database, in seconds.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata will add some randomness to this number, to prevent stressing the external server when many Netdata servers
+            send data to the same database. This randomness does not affect the quality of the data, only the time they are sent.
+        - name: 'buffer on failures'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            The number of iterations (`update every` seconds) to buffer data, when the external database server is not available.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            If the server fails to receive the data after that many failures, data loss on the connector instance is expected (Netdata will also log it).
+        - name: 'timeout ms'
+          default_value: '2 * update_every * 1000'
+          description: 'The timeout in milliseconds to wait for the external database server to process the data.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send hosts matching'
+          default_value: 'localhost *'
+          description: |
+            Hosts filter. Determines which hosts will be sent to the external database. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern#simple-patterns).
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Includes one or more space separated patterns, using * as wildcard (any number of times within each pattern).
+            The patterns are checked against the hostname (the localhost is always checked as localhost), allowing us to
+            filter which hosts will be sent to the external database when this Netdata is a central Netdata aggregating multiple hosts.
+
+            A pattern starting with `!` gives a negative match. So to match all hosts named `*db*` except hosts containing `*child*`,
+            use `!*child* *db*` (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the hostname will be used - positive or negative).
+        - name: 'send charts matching'
+          default_value: '*'
+          description: |
+            One or more space separated patterns (use * as wildcard) checked against both chart id and chart name.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            A pattern starting with ! gives a negative match. So to match all charts named apps.* except charts ending in *reads,
+            use !*reads apps.* (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the chart id or the chart name will be used,
+            positive or negative). There is also a URL parameter filter that can be used while querying allmetrics. The URL parameter
+            has a higher priority than the configuration option.
+        - name: 'send names instead of ids'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls the metric names Netdata should send to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata supports names and IDs for charts and dimensions. Usually IDs are unique identifiers as read by the system and names
+            are human friendly labels (also unique). Most charts and metrics have the same ID and name, but in several cases they are
+            different : disks with device-mapper, interrupts, QoS classes, statsd synthetic charts, etc.
+        - name: 'send configured labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if host labels defined in the `[host labels]` section in `netdata.conf` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send automatic labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if automatically created labels, like `_os_name` or `_architecture` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+    examples:
+      folding:
+        enabled: true
+        title: ''
+      list:
+        - name: 'Basic configuration'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: ''
+          config: |
+            [json:my_json_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = localhost:5448
+        - name: 'Configuration with HTTPS and HTTP authentication'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: 'Add `:https` modifier to the connector type if you need to use the TLS/SSL protocol. For example: `json:https:my_json_instance`.'
+          config: |
+            [json:my_json_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = localhost:5448
+                username = my_username
+                password = my_password
diff --git a/exporting/mongodb/metadata.yaml b/exporting/mongodb/metadata.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..30e1e89d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporting/mongodb/metadata.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+# yamllint disable rule:line-length
+---
+id: 'export-mongodb'
+meta:
+  name: 'MongoDB'
+  link: 'https://www.mongodb.com/'
+  categories:
+    - export
+  icon_filename: 'mongodb.svg'
+keywords:
+  - exporter
+  - MongoDB
+overview:
+  exporter_description: |
+    Use the MongoDB connector for the exporting engine to archive your agent's metrics to a MongoDB database
+    for long-term storage, further analysis, or correlation with data from other sources.
+  exporter_limitations: ''
+setup:
+  prerequisites:
+    list:
+      - title: ''
+        description: |
+          - To use MongoDB as an external storage for long-term archiving, you should first [install](http://mongoc.org/libmongoc/current/installing.html) libmongoc 1.7.0 or higher.
+          - Next, re-install Netdata from the source, which detects that the required library is now available.
+  configuration:
+    file:
+      name: 'exporting.conf'
+    options:
+      description: |
+        The following options can be defined for this exporter.
+      folding:
+        title: 'Config options'
+        enabled: true
+      list:
+        - name: 'enabled'
+          default_value: 'no'
+          description: 'Enables or disables an exporting connector instance (yes|no).'
+          required: true
+        - name: 'destination'
+          default_value: 'localhost'
+          description: 'Accepts a space separated list of hostnames, IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) and ports to connect to. Netdata will use the first available to send the metrics.'
+          required: true
+          detailed_description: |
+            The format of each item in this list, is: [PROTOCOL:]IP[:PORT].
+            - PROTOCOL can be udp or tcp. tcp is the default and only supported by the current exporting engine.
+            - IP can be XX.XX.XX.XX (IPv4), or [XX:XX...XX:XX] (IPv6). For IPv6 you can to enclose the IP in [] to separate it from the port.
+            - PORT can be a number of a service name. If omitted, the default port for the exporting connector will be used.
+
+            Example IPv4:
+              ```yaml
+              destination = 10.11.14.2:27017 10.11.14.3:4242 10.11.14.4:27017
+              ```
+            Example IPv6 and IPv4 together:
+            ```yaml
+            destination = [ffff:...:0001]:2003 10.11.12.1:2003
+            ```
+            When multiple servers are defined, Netdata will try the next one when the previous one fails.
+        - name: 'username'
+          default_value: 'my_username'
+          description: 'Username for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'password'
+          default_value: 'my_password'
+          description: 'Password for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'data source'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Selects the kind of data that will be sent to the external database. (as collected|average|sum)'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'hostname'
+          default_value: '[global].hostname'
+          description: 'The hostname to be used for sending data to the external database server.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'prefix'
+          default_value: 'Netdata'
+          description: 'The prefix to add to all metrics.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'update every'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            Frequency of sending sending data to the external database, in seconds.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata will add some randomness to this number, to prevent stressing the external server when many Netdata servers
+            send data to the same database. This randomness does not affect the quality of the data, only the time they are sent.
+        - name: 'buffer on failures'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            The number of iterations (`update every` seconds) to buffer data, when the external database server is not available.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            If the server fails to receive the data after that many failures, data loss on the connector instance is expected (Netdata will also log it).
+        - name: 'timeout ms'
+          default_value: '2 * update_every * 1000'
+          description: 'The timeout in milliseconds to wait for the external database server to process the data.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send hosts matching'
+          default_value: 'localhost *'
+          description: |
+            Hosts filter. Determines which hosts will be sent to the external database. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern#simple-patterns).
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Includes one or more space separated patterns, using * as wildcard (any number of times within each pattern).
+            The patterns are checked against the hostname (the localhost is always checked as localhost), allowing us to
+            filter which hosts will be sent to the external database when this Netdata is a central Netdata aggregating multiple hosts.
+
+            A pattern starting with `!` gives a negative match. So to match all hosts named `*db*` except hosts containing `*child*`,
+            use `!*child* *db*` (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the hostname will be used - positive or negative).
+        - name: 'send charts matching'
+          default_value: '*'
+          description: |
+            One or more space separated patterns (use * as wildcard) checked against both chart id and chart name.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            A pattern starting with ! gives a negative match. So to match all charts named apps.* except charts ending in *reads,
+            use !*reads apps.* (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the chart id or the chart name will be used,
+            positive or negative). There is also a URL parameter filter that can be used while querying allmetrics. The URL parameter
+            has a higher priority than the configuration option.
+        - name: 'send names instead of ids'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls the metric names Netdata should send to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata supports names and IDs for charts and dimensions. Usually IDs are unique identifiers as read by the system and names
+            are human friendly labels (also unique). Most charts and metrics have the same ID and name, but in several cases they are
+            different : disks with device-mapper, interrupts, QoS classes, statsd synthetic charts, etc.
+        - name: 'send configured labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if host labels defined in the `[host labels]` section in `netdata.conf` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send automatic labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if automatically created labels, like `_os_name` or `_architecture` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+    examples:
+      folding:
+        enabled: true
+        title: ''
+      list:
+        - name: 'Basic configuration'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: |
+            The default socket timeout depends on the exporting connector update interval.
+            The timeout is 500 ms shorter than the interval (but not less than 1000 ms). You can alter the timeout using the sockettimeoutms MongoDB URI option.
+          config: |
+            [mongodb:my_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = mongodb://<hostname>
+                database = your_database_name
+                collection = your_collection_name
diff --git a/exporting/opentsdb/metadata.yaml b/exporting/opentsdb/metadata.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..505c8c599
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporting/opentsdb/metadata.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+# yamllint disable rule:line-length
+---
+id: 'export-opentsdb'
+meta:
+  name: 'OpenTSDB'
+  link: 'https://github.com/OpenTSDB/opentsdb'
+  categories:
+    - export
+  icon_filename: 'opentsdb.png'
+keywords:
+  - exporter
+  - OpenTSDB
+  - scalable time series
+overview:
+  exporter_description: |
+    Use the OpenTSDB connector for the exporting engine to archive your Netdata metrics to OpenTSDB databases for long-term storage,
+    further analysis, or correlation with data from other sources.
+  exporter_limitations: ''
+setup:
+  prerequisites:
+    list:
+      - title: ''
+        description: |
+          - OpenTSDB and Netdata, installed, configured and operational.
+  configuration:
+    file:
+      name: 'exporting.conf'
+    options:
+      description: 'The following options can be defined for this exporter.'
+      folding:
+        title: 'Config options'
+        enabled: true
+      list:
+        - name: 'enabled'
+          default_value: 'no'
+          description: 'Enables or disables an exporting connector instance (yes|no).'
+          required: true
+        - name: 'destination'
+          default_value: 'no'
+          description: 'Accepts a space separated list of hostnames, IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) and ports to connect to. Netdata will use the first available to send the metrics.'
+          required: true
+          detailed_description: |
+            The format of each item in this list, is: [PROTOCOL:]IP[:PORT].
+            - PROTOCOL can be udp or tcp. tcp is the default and only supported by the current exporting engine.
+            - IP can be XX.XX.XX.XX (IPv4), or [XX:XX...XX:XX] (IPv6). For IPv6 you can to enclose the IP in [] to separate it from the port.
+            - PORT can be a number of a service name. If omitted, the default port for the exporting connector will be used (opentsdb = 4242).
+
+            Example IPv4:
+              ```yaml
+              destination = 10.11.14.2:4242 10.11.14.3:4242 10.11.14.4:4242
+              ```
+            Example IPv6 and IPv4 together:
+            ```yaml
+            destination = [ffff:...:0001]:2003 10.11.12.1:2003
+            ```
+            When multiple servers are defined, Netdata will try the next one when the previous one fails.
+        - name: 'username'
+          default_value: 'my_username'
+          description: 'Username for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'password'
+          default_value: 'my_password'
+          description: 'Password for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'data source'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Selects the kind of data that will be sent to the external database. (as collected|average|sum)'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'hostname'
+          default_value: '[global].hostname'
+          description: 'The hostname to be used for sending data to the external database server.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'prefix'
+          default_value: 'Netdata'
+          description: 'The prefix to add to all metrics.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'update every'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            Frequency of sending sending data to the external database, in seconds.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata will add some randomness to this number, to prevent stressing the external server when many Netdata servers
+            send data to the same database. This randomness does not affect the quality of the data, only the time they are sent.
+        - name: 'buffer on failures'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            The number of iterations (`update every` seconds) to buffer data, when the external database server is not available.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            If the server fails to receive the data after that many failures, data loss on the connector instance is expected (Netdata will also log it).
+        - name: 'timeout ms'
+          default_value: '2 * update_every * 1000'
+          description: 'The timeout in milliseconds to wait for the external database server to process the data.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send hosts matching'
+          default_value: 'localhost *'
+          description: |
+            Hosts filter. Determines which hosts will be sent to OpenTSDB. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern#simple-patterns).
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Includes one or more space separated patterns, using * as wildcard (any number of times within each pattern).
+            The patterns are checked against the hostname (the localhost is always checked as localhost), allowing us to
+            filter which hosts will be sent to the external database when this Netdata is a central Netdata aggregating multiple hosts.
+
+            A pattern starting with `!` gives a negative match. So to match all hosts named `*db*` except hosts containing `*child*`,
+            use `!*child* *db*` (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the hostname will be used - positive or negative).
+        - name: 'send charts matching'
+          default_value: '*'
+          description: |
+            One or more space separated patterns (use * as wildcard) checked against both chart id and chart name.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            A pattern starting with ! gives a negative match. So to match all charts named apps.* except charts ending in *reads,
+            use !*reads apps.* (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the chart id or the chart name will be used,
+            positive or negative). There is also a URL parameter filter that can be used while querying allmetrics. The URL parameter
+            has a higher priority than the configuration option.
+        - name: 'send names instead of ids'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls the metric names Netdata should send to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata supports names and IDs for charts and dimensions. Usually IDs are unique identifiers as read by the system and names
+            are human friendly labels (also unique). Most charts and metrics have the same ID and name, but in several cases they are
+            different : disks with device-mapper, interrupts, QoS classes, statsd synthetic charts, etc.
+        - name: 'send configured labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if host labels defined in the `[host labels]` section in `netdata.conf` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send automatic labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if automatically created labels, like `_os_name` or `_architecture` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+    examples:
+      folding:
+        enabled: true
+        title: ''
+      list:
+        - name: 'Minimal configuration'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: |
+            Add `:http` or `:https` modifiers to the connector type if you need to use other than a plaintext protocol.
+            For example: `opentsdb:http:my_opentsdb_instance`, `opentsdb:https:my_opentsdb_instance`.
+          config: |
+            [opentsdb:my_opentsdb_instance]
+              enabled = yes
+              destination = localhost:4242
+        - name: 'HTTP authentication'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: ''
+          config: |
+            [opentsdb:my_opentsdb_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = localhost:4242
+                username = my_username
+                password = my_password
+        - name: 'Using `send hosts matching`'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: ''
+          config: |
+            [opentsdb:my_opentsdb_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = localhost:4242
+                send hosts matching = localhost *
+        - name: 'Using `send charts matching`'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: ''
+          config: |
+            [opentsdb:my_opentsdb_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = localhost:4242
+                send charts matching = *
diff --git a/exporting/prometheus/metadata.yaml b/exporting/prometheus/metadata.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..906d8ea36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporting/prometheus/metadata.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,436 @@
+# yamllint disable rule:line-length
+---
+- &promexport
+  id: 'export-prometheus-remote'
+  meta: &meta
+    name: 'Prometheus Remote Write'
+    link: 'https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/integrations/#remote-endpoints-and-storage'
+    categories:
+      - export
+    icon_filename: 'prometheus.svg'
+  keywords:
+    - exporter
+    - Prometheus
+    - remote write
+    - time series
+  overview:
+    exporter_description: |
+      Use the Prometheus remote write exporting connector to archive your Netdata metrics to the external storage provider of your choice for long-term storage and further analysis.
+    exporter_limitations: 'The remote write exporting connector does not support buffer on failures.'
+  setup:
+    prerequisites:
+      list:
+        - title: ''
+          description: |
+            - Netdata and the external storage provider of your choice, installed, configured and operational.
+            - `protobuf` and `snappy` libraries installed.
+            - Netdata reinstalled after the libraries.
+    configuration:
+      file:
+        name: 'exporting.conf'
+      options:
+        description: 'The following options can be defined for this exporter.'
+        folding:
+          title: 'Config options'
+          enabled: true
+        list:
+          - name: 'enabled'
+            default_value: 'no'
+            description: 'Enables or disables an exporting connector instance (yes|no).'
+            required: true
+          - name: 'destination'
+            default_value: 'no'
+            description: 'Accepts a space separated list of hostnames, IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) and ports to connect to. Netdata will use the first available to send the metrics.'
+            required: true
+            detailed_description: |
+              The format of each item in this list, is: [PROTOCOL:]IP[:PORT].
+              - PROTOCOL can be udp or tcp. tcp is the default and only supported by the current exporting engine.
+              - IP can be XX.XX.XX.XX (IPv4), or [XX:XX...XX:XX] (IPv6). For IPv6 you can to enclose the IP in [] to separate it from the port.
+              - PORT can be a number of a service name. If omitted, the default port for the exporting connector will be used.
+
+              Example IPv4:
+                ```yaml
+                destination = 10.11.14.2:2003 10.11.14.3:4242 10.11.14.4:2003
+                ```
+              Example IPv6 and IPv4 together:
+              ```yaml
+              destination = [ffff:...:0001]:2003 10.11.12.1:2003
+              ```
+              When multiple servers are defined, Netdata will try the next one when the previous one fails.
+          - name: 'username'
+            default_value: 'my_username'
+            description: 'Username for HTTP authentication'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'password'
+            default_value: 'my_password'
+            description: 'Password for HTTP authentication'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'data source'
+            default_value: ''
+            description: 'Selects the kind of data that will be sent to the external database. (as collected|average|sum)'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'hostname'
+            default_value: '[global].hostname'
+            description: 'The hostname to be used for sending data to the external database server.'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'prefix'
+            default_value: 'netdata'
+            description: 'The prefix to add to all metrics.'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'update every'
+            default_value: '10'
+            description: |
+              Frequency of sending sending data to the external database, in seconds.
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              Netdata will add some randomness to this number, to prevent stressing the external server when many Netdata servers
+              send data to the same database. This randomness does not affect the quality of the data, only the time they are sent.
+          - name: 'buffer on failures'
+            default_value: '10'
+            description: |
+              The number of iterations (`update every` seconds) to buffer data, when the external database server is not available.
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              If the server fails to receive the data after that many failures, data loss on the connector instance is expected (Netdata will also log it).
+          - name: 'timeout ms'
+            default_value: '20000'
+            description: 'The timeout in milliseconds to wait for the external database server to process the data.'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'send hosts matching'
+            default_value: 'localhost *'
+            description: |
+              Hosts filter. Determines which hosts will be sent to the external database. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern#simple-patterns).
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              Includes one or more space separated patterns, using * as wildcard (any number of times within each pattern).
+              The patterns are checked against the hostname (the localhost is always checked as localhost), allowing us to
+              filter which hosts will be sent to the external database when this Netdata is a central Netdata aggregating multiple hosts.
+
+              A pattern starting with `!` gives a negative match. So to match all hosts named `*db*` except hosts containing `*child*`,
+              use `!*child* *db*` (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the hostname will be used - positive or negative).
+          - name: 'send charts matching'
+            default_value: '*'
+            description: |
+              One or more space separated patterns (use * as wildcard) checked against both chart id and chart name.
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              A pattern starting with ! gives a negative match. So to match all charts named apps.* except charts ending in *reads,
+              use !*reads apps.* (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the chart id or the chart name will be used,
+              positive or negative). There is also a URL parameter filter that can be used while querying allmetrics. The URL parameter
+              has a higher priority than the configuration option.
+          - name: 'send names instead of ids'
+            default_value: ''
+            description: 'Controls the metric names Netdata should send to the external database (yes|no).'
+            required: false
+            detailed_description: |
+              Netdata supports names and IDs for charts and dimensions. Usually IDs are unique identifiers as read by the system and names
+              are human friendly labels (also unique). Most charts and metrics have the same ID and name, but in several cases they are
+              different : disks with device-mapper, interrupts, QoS classes, statsd synthetic charts, etc.
+          - name: 'send configured labels'
+            default_value: ''
+            description: 'Controls if host labels defined in the `[host labels]` section in `netdata.conf` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+            required: false
+          - name: 'send automatic labels'
+            default_value: ''
+            description: 'Controls if automatically created labels, like `_os_name` or `_architecture` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+            required: false
+      examples:
+        folding:
+          enabled: true
+          title: ''
+        list:
+          - name: 'Example configuration'
+            folding:
+              enabled: false
+            description: 'Basic example configuration for Prometheus remote write.'
+            config: |
+             [prometheus_remote_write:my_instance]
+                 enabled = yes
+                 destination = 10.11.14.2:2003
+                 remote write URL path = /receive
+          - name: 'Example configuration with HTTPS and HTTP authentication'
+            folding:
+              enabled: false
+            description: 'Add `:https` modifier to the connector type if you need to use the TLS/SSL protocol. For example: `remote_write:https:my_instance`.'
+            config: |
+              [prometheus_remote_write:https:my_instance]
+                  enabled = yes
+                  destination = 10.11.14.2:2003
+                  remote write URL path = /receive
+                  username = my_username
+                  password = my_password
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-appoptics'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: AppOptics
+    link: https://www.solarwinds.com/appoptics
+    icon_filename: 'solarwinds.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - app optics
+      - AppOptics
+      - Solarwinds
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-azure-data'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Azure Data Explorer
+    link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/data-explorer/
+    icon_filename: 'azuredataex.jpg'
+    keywords:
+      - Azure Data Explorer
+      - Azure
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-azure-event'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Azure Event Hub
+    link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/event-hubs/event-hubs-about
+    icon_filename: 'azureeventhub.png'
+    keywords:
+      - Azure Event Hub
+      - Azure
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-newrelic'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: New Relic
+    link: https://newrelic.com/
+    icon_filename: 'newrelic.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - NewRelic
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-quasar'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: QuasarDB
+    link: https://doc.quasar.ai/master/
+    icon_filename: 'quasar.jpeg'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - quasar
+      - quasarDB
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-splunk'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Splunk SignalFx
+    link: https://www.splunk.com/en_us/products/observability.html
+    icon_filename: 'splunk.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - splunk
+      - signalfx
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-tikv'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: TiKV
+    link: https://tikv.org/
+    icon_filename: 'tikv.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - TiKV
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-thanos'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Thanos
+    link: https://thanos.io/
+    icon_filename: 'thanos.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - thanos
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-victoria'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: VictoriaMetrics
+    link: https://victoriametrics.com/products/open-source/
+    icon_filename: 'victoriametrics.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - victoriametrics
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-vmware'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: VMware Aria
+    link: https://www.vmware.com/products/aria-operations-for-applications.html
+    icon_filename: 'aria.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - VMware
+      - Aria
+      - Tanzu
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-chronix'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Chronix
+    link: https://dbdb.io/db/chronix
+    icon_filename: 'chronix.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - chronix
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-cortex'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Cortex
+    link: https://cortexmetrics.io/
+    icon_filename: 'cortex.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - cortex
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-crate'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: CrateDB
+    link: https://crate.io/
+    icon_filename: 'crate.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - CrateDB
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-elastic'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: ElasticSearch
+    link: https://www.elastic.co/
+    icon_filename: 'elasticsearch.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - ElasticSearch
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-gnocchi'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Gnocchi
+    link: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Gnocchi
+    icon_filename: 'gnocchi.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - Gnocchi
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-bigquery'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Google BigQuery
+    link: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/
+    icon_filename: 'bigquery.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - Google BigQuery
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-irondb'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: IRONdb
+    link: https://docs.circonus.com/irondb/
+    icon_filename: 'irondb.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - IRONdb
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-kafka'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Kafka
+    link: https://kafka.apache.org/
+    icon_filename: 'kafka.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - Kafka
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-m3db'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: M3DB
+    link: https://m3db.io/
+    icon_filename: 'm3db.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - M3DB
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-metricfire'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: MetricFire
+    link: https://www.metricfire.com/
+    icon_filename: 'metricfire.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - MetricFire
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-pgsql'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: PostgreSQL
+    link: https://www.postgresql.org/
+    icon_filename: 'postgres.svg'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - PostgreSQL
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-wavefront'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: Wavefront
+    link: https://docs.wavefront.com/wavefront_data_ingestion.html
+    icon_filename: 'wavefront.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - Wavefront
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
+- <<: *promexport
+  id: 'export-timescaledb'
+  meta:
+    <<: *meta
+    name: TimescaleDB
+    link: https://www.timescale.com/
+    icon_filename: 'timescale.png'
+    keywords:
+      - export
+      - TimescaleDB
+      - prometheus
+      - remote write
diff --git a/exporting/pubsub/metadata.yaml b/exporting/pubsub/metadata.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7f57bb809
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporting/pubsub/metadata.yaml
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+# yamllint disable rule:line-length
+---
+id: 'export-google-pubsub'
+meta:
+  name: 'Google Cloud Pub Sub'
+  link: 'https://cloud.google.com/pubsub'
+  categories:
+    - export
+  icon_filename: 'pubsub.png'
+keywords:
+  - exporter
+  - Google Cloud
+  - Pub Sub
+overview:
+  exporter_description: |
+    Export metrics to Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service
+  exporter_limitations: ''
+setup:
+  prerequisites:
+    list:
+      - title: ''
+        description: |
+          - First [install](https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-cpp/) install Google Cloud Platform C++ Client Libraries
+          - Pub/Sub support is also dependent on the dependencies of those libraries, like `protobuf`, `protoc`, and `grpc`
+          - Next, Netdata should be re-installed from the source. The installer will detect that the required libraries are now available.
+  configuration:
+    file:
+      name: 'exporting.conf'
+    options:
+      description: |
+        The following options can be defined for this exporter.
+      folding:
+        title: 'Config options'
+        enabled: true
+      list:
+        - name: 'enabled'
+          default_value: 'no'
+          description: 'Enables or disables an exporting connector instance (yes|no).'
+          required: true
+        - name: 'destination'
+          default_value: 'pubsub.googleapis.com'
+          description: 'Accepts a space separated list of hostnames, IPs (IPv4 and IPv6) and ports to connect to. Netdata will use the first available to send the metrics.'
+          required: true
+          detailed_description: |
+            The format of each item in this list, is: [PROTOCOL:]IP[:PORT].
+            - PROTOCOL can be udp or tcp. tcp is the default and only supported by the current exporting engine.
+            - IP can be XX.XX.XX.XX (IPv4), or [XX:XX...XX:XX] (IPv6). For IPv6 you can to enclose the IP in [] to separate it from the port.
+            - PORT can be a number of a service name. If omitted, the default port for the exporting connector will be used.
+
+            Example IPv4:
+              ```yaml
+              destination = pubsub.googleapis.com
+              ```
+            When multiple servers are defined, Netdata will try the next one when the previous one fails.
+        - name: 'username'
+          default_value: 'my_username'
+          description: 'Username for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'password'
+          default_value: 'my_password'
+          description: 'Password for HTTP authentication'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'data source'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Selects the kind of data that will be sent to the external database. (as collected|average|sum)'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'hostname'
+          default_value: '[global].hostname'
+          description: 'The hostname to be used for sending data to the external database server.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'prefix'
+          default_value: 'Netdata'
+          description: 'The prefix to add to all metrics.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'update every'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            Frequency of sending sending data to the external database, in seconds.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata will add some randomness to this number, to prevent stressing the external server when many Netdata servers
+            send data to the same database. This randomness does not affect the quality of the data, only the time they are sent.
+        - name: 'buffer on failures'
+          default_value: '10'
+          description: |
+            The number of iterations (`update every` seconds) to buffer data, when the external database server is not available.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            If the server fails to receive the data after that many failures, data loss on the connector instance is expected (Netdata will also log it).
+        - name: 'timeout ms'
+          default_value: '2 * update_every * 1000'
+          description: 'The timeout in milliseconds to wait for the external database server to process the data.'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send hosts matching'
+          default_value: 'localhost *'
+          description: |
+            Hosts filter. Determines which hosts will be sent to the external database. The syntax is [simple patterns](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/tree/master/libnetdata/simple_pattern#simple-patterns).
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Includes one or more space separated patterns, using * as wildcard (any number of times within each pattern).
+            The patterns are checked against the hostname (the localhost is always checked as localhost), allowing us to
+            filter which hosts will be sent to the external database when this Netdata is a central Netdata aggregating multiple hosts.
+
+            A pattern starting with `!` gives a negative match. So to match all hosts named `*db*` except hosts containing `*child*`,
+            use `!*child* *db*` (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the hostname will be used - positive or negative).
+        - name: 'send charts matching'
+          default_value: '*'
+          description: |
+            One or more space separated patterns (use * as wildcard) checked against both chart id and chart name.
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            A pattern starting with ! gives a negative match. So to match all charts named apps.* except charts ending in *reads,
+            use !*reads apps.* (so, the order is important: the first pattern matching the chart id or the chart name will be used,
+            positive or negative). There is also a URL parameter filter that can be used while querying allmetrics. The URL parameter
+            has a higher priority than the configuration option.
+        - name: 'send names instead of ids'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls the metric names Netdata should send to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+          detailed_description: |
+            Netdata supports names and IDs for charts and dimensions. Usually IDs are unique identifiers as read by the system and names
+            are human friendly labels (also unique). Most charts and metrics have the same ID and name, but in several cases they are
+            different : disks with device-mapper, interrupts, QoS classes, statsd synthetic charts, etc.
+        - name: 'send configured labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if host labels defined in the `[host labels]` section in `netdata.conf` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+        - name: 'send automatic labels'
+          default_value: ''
+          description: 'Controls if automatically created labels, like `_os_name` or `_architecture` should be sent to the external database (yes|no).'
+          required: false
+    examples:
+      folding:
+        enabled: true
+        title: ''
+      list:
+        - name: 'Basic configuration'
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: |
+            - Set the destination option to a Pub/Sub service endpoint. pubsub.googleapis.com is the default one.
+            - Create the credentials JSON file by following Google Cloud's authentication guide.
+            - The user running the Agent (typically netdata) needs read access to google_cloud_credentials.json, which you can set
+              `chmod 400 google_cloud_credentials.json; chown netdata google_cloud_credentials.json`
+            - Set the credentials file option to the full path of the file.
+          config: |
+            [pubsub:my_instance]
+                enabled = yes
+                destination = pubsub.googleapis.com
+                credentials file = /etc/netdata/google_cloud_credentials.json
+                project id = my_project
+                topic id = my_topic
diff --git a/exporting/sample-metadata.yaml b/exporting/sample-metadata.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41a287aeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/exporting/sample-metadata.yaml
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+id: ''
+meta:
+  name: ''
+  link: ''
+  categories: []
+  icon_filename: ''
+keywords: []
+overview:
+  exporter_description: ''
+  exporter_limitations: ''
+setup:
+  prerequisites:
+    list:
+      - title: ''
+        description: ''
+  configuration:
+    file:
+      name: ''
+      description: ''
+    options:
+      description: ''
+      folding:
+        title: ''
+        enabled: true
+      list:
+        - name: ''
+          default_value: ''
+          description: ''
+          required: false
+    examples:
+      folding:
+        enabled: true
+        title: ''
+      list:
+        - name: ''
+          folding:
+            enabled: false
+          description: ''
+          config: ''