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-# Using netdata with AWS Kinesis Data Streams
+# Using Netdata with AWS Kinesis Data Streams
## Prerequisites
-To use AWS Kinesis as a backend AWS SDK for C++ should be [installed](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/setup.html) first. `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.
+To use AWS Kinesis as a backend AWS SDK for C++ should be [installed](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/setup.html) first. `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.
If the AWS SDK for C++ is being installed from source, it is useful to set `-DBUILD_ONLY="kinesis"`. Otherwise, the building process could take a very long time. Take a note, that the default installation path for the libraries is `/usr/local/lib64`. Many Linux distributions don't include this path as the default one for a library search, so it is advisable to use the following options to `cmake` while building the AWS SDK:
@@ -13,15 +13,18 @@ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib -DCMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR=/usr/include -D
## Configuration
To enable data sending to the kinesis backend set the following options in `netdata.conf`:
+
```
[backend]
enabled = yes
type = kinesis
destination = us-east-1
```
+
set the `destination` option to an AWS region.
-In the netdata configuration directory run `./edit-config aws_kinesis.conf` and set AWS credentials and stream name:
+In the Netdata configuration directory run `./edit-config aws_kinesis.conf` and set AWS credentials and stream name:
+
```
# AWS credentials
aws_access_key_id = your_access_key_id
@@ -30,9 +33,9 @@ aws_secret_access_key = your_secret_access_key
# destination stream
stream name = your_stream_name
```
-Alternatively, AWS credentials can be set for the *netdata* user using AWS SDK for C++ [standard methods](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/credentials.html).
-A partition key for every record is computed automatically by the netdata with the purpose to distribute records across available shards evenly.
+Alternatively, AWS credentials can be set for the *netdata* user using AWS SDK for C++ [standard methods](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/credentials.html).
+A partition key for every record is computed automatically by Netdata with the purpose to distribute records across available shards evenly.
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