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+# Export metrics to external time-series databases
+
+Netdata allows you to export metrics to external time-series databases with the [exporting
+engine](/src/exporting/README.md). This system uses a number of **connectors** to initiate connections to [more than
+thirty](#supported-databases) supported databases, including InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite, ElasticSearch, and much
+more.
+
+The exporting engine resamples Netdata's thousands of per-second metrics at a user-configurable interval, and can export
+metrics to multiple time-series databases simultaneously.
+
+Based on your needs and resources you allocated to your external time-series database, you can configure the interval
+that metrics are exported or export only certain charts with filtering. You can also choose whether metrics are exported
+as-collected, a normalized average, or the sum/volume of metrics values over the configured interval.
+
+Exporting is an important part of Netdata's effort to be interoperable
+with other monitoring software. You can use an external time-series database for long-term metrics retention, further
+analysis, or correlation with other tools, such as application tracing.
+
+## Supported databases
+
+Netdata supports exporting metrics to the following databases through several
+[connectors](/src/exporting/README.md#features). Once you find the connector that works for your database, open its
+documentation and the [enabling a connector](/docs/exporting-metrics/enable-an-exporting-connector.md) doc for details on enabling it.
+
+- **AppOptics**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **AWS Kinesis**: [AWS Kinesis Data Streams](/src/exporting/aws_kinesis/README.md)
+- **Azure Data Explorer**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Azure Event Hubs**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Blueflood**: [Graphite](/src/exporting/graphite/README.md)
+- **Chronix**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Cortex**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **CrateDB**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **ElasticSearch**: [Graphite](/src/exporting/graphite/README.md), [Prometheus remote
+ write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Gnocchi**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Google BigQuery**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Google Cloud Pub/Sub**: [Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service](/src/exporting/pubsub/README.md)
+- **Graphite**: [Graphite](/src/exporting/graphite/README.md), [Prometheus remote
+ write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **InfluxDB**: [Graphite](/src/exporting/graphite/README.md), [Prometheus remote
+ write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **IRONdb**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **JSON**: [JSON document databases](/src/exporting/json/README.md)
+- **Kafka**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **KairosDB**: [Graphite](/src/exporting/graphite/README.md), [OpenTSDB](/src/exporting/opentsdb/README.md)
+- **M3DB**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **MetricFire**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **MongoDB**: [MongoDB](/src/exporting/mongodb/README.md)
+- **New Relic**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **OpenTSDB**: [OpenTSDB](/src/exporting/opentsdb/README.md), [Prometheus remote
+ write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **PostgreSQL**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+ via [PostgreSQL Prometheus Adapter](https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgresql-prometheus-adapter)
+- **Prometheus**: [Prometheus scraper](/src/exporting/prometheus/README.md)
+- **TimescaleDB**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md),
+ [netdata-timescale-relay](/src/exporting/TIMESCALE.md)
+- **QuasarDB**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **SignalFx**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Splunk**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **TiKV**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Thanos**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **VictoriaMetrics**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+- **Wavefront**: [Prometheus remote write](/src/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md)
+
+Can't find your preferred external time-series database? Ask our [community](https://community.netdata.cloud/) for
+solutions, or file an [issue on
+GitHub](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/new?assignees=&labels=bug%2Cneeds+triage&template=BUG_REPORT.yml).