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+title: "Export metrics to Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service"
+description: "Export Netdata metrics to the Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service for long-term archiving or analytical processing."
+custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/exporting/pubsub/README.md
+sidebar_label: Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service
+-->
+
+# Export metrics to Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+To use the Pub/Sub service for metric collecting and processing, you should first
+[install](https://github.com/googleapis/cpp-cmakefiles) Google Cloud Platform C++ Proto 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.
+
+> You [cannot compile Netdata](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/10193) with Pub/Sub support enabled using
+> `grpc` 1.32 or higher.
+>
+> Some distributions don't have `.cmake` files in packages. To build the C++ Proto Libraries on such distributions we
+> advise you to delete `protobuf`, `protoc`, and `grpc` related packages and
+> [install](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/BUILDING.md) `grpc` with its dependencies from source.
+
+## Configuration
+
+To enable data sending to the Pub/Sub service, run `./edit-config exporting.conf` in the Netdata configuration directory
+and set the following options:
+
+```conf
+[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
+```
+
+Set the `destination` option to a Pub/Sub service endpoint. `pubsub.googleapis.com` is the default one.
+
+Next, create the credentials JSON file by following Google Cloud's [authentication guide](https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started#creating_a_service_account). The user running the Agent
+(typically `netdata`) needs read access to `google_cloud_credentials.json`, which you can set with
+`chmod 400 google_cloud_credentials.json; chown netdata google_cloud_credentials.json`. Set the `credentials file`
+option to the full path of the file.
+
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