# 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. 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: ```sh cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=/usr/lib -DCMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR=/usr/include -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF -DBUILD_ONLY=kinesis ``` ## Configuration To enable data sending to the kinesis backend set the following options in `netdata.conf`: ```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: ```yaml # 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 ``` 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. [](<>)