# Export metrics to external time-series databases Netdata allows you to export metrics to external time-series databases with the [exporting engine](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/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](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/README.md#features). Once you find the connector that works for your database, open its documentation and the [enabling a connector](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/export/enable-connector.md) doc for details on enabling it. - **AppOptics**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **AWS Kinesis**: [AWS Kinesis Data Streams](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/aws_kinesis/README.md) - **Azure Data Explorer**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Azure Event Hubs**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Blueflood**: [Graphite](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/graphite/README.md) - **Chronix**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Cortex**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **CrateDB**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **ElasticSearch**: [Graphite](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/graphite/README.md), [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Gnocchi**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Google BigQuery**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Google Cloud Pub/Sub**: [Google Cloud Pub/Sub Service](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/pubsub/README.md) - **Graphite**: [Graphite](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/graphite/README.md), [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **InfluxDB**: [Graphite](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/graphite/README.md), [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **IRONdb**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **JSON**: [JSON document databases](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/json/README.md) - **Kafka**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **KairosDB**: [Graphite](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/graphite/README.md), [OpenTSDB](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/opentsdb/README.md) - **M3DB**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **MetricFire**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **MongoDB**: [MongoDB](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/mongodb/README.md) - **New Relic**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **OpenTSDB**: [OpenTSDB](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/opentsdb/README.md), [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **PostgreSQL**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) via [PostgreSQL Prometheus Adapter](https://github.com/CrunchyData/postgresql-prometheus-adapter) - **Prometheus**: [Prometheus scraper](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/README.md) - **TimescaleDB**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md), [netdata-timescale-relay](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/TIMESCALE.md) - **QuasarDB**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **SignalFx**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Splunk**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **TiKV**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Thanos**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **VictoriaMetrics**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/exporting/prometheus/remote_write/README.md) - **Wavefront**: [Prometheus remote write](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/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).