# Export metrics to AWS Kinesis Data Streams ## Prerequisites To use AWS Kinesis for metric collecting and processing, you should first [install](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/en_us/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/setup.html) AWS SDK for C++. `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 build process could take a very long time. 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 sudo cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_ONLY=kinesis ``` The `-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr` option also ensures that [third party dependencies](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-cpp#third-party-dependencies) are installed in your system during the SDK build process. ## Configuration To enable data sending to the Kinesis service, run `./edit-config exporting.conf` in the Netdata configuration directory and set the following options: ```conf [kinesis:my_instance] enabled = yes destination = us-east-1 ``` Set the `destination` option to an AWS region. Set AWS credentials and stream name: ```conf # 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, you can set AWS credentials for the `netdata` user using AWS SDK for C++ [standard methods](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/v1/developer-guide/credentials.html). Netdata automatically computes a partition key for every record with the purpose to distribute records across available shards evenly.