# Export metrics to MongoDB You can use the MongoDB connector for the [exporting engine](/exporting/README.md) to archive your agent's metrics to a MongoDB database for long-term storage, further analysis, or correlation with data from other sources. ## Prerequisites To use MongoDB as an external storage for long-term archiving, you should first [install](http://mongoc.org/libmongoc/current/installing.html) `libmongoc` 1.7.0 or higher. Next, re-install Netdata from the source, which detects that the required library is now available. ## Configuration To enable data exporting to a MongoDB database, run `./edit-config exporting.conf` in the Netdata configuration directory and set the following options: ```conf [mongodb:my_instance] enabled = yes destination = mongodb:// database = your_database_name collection = your_collection_name ``` You can find more information about the `destination` string URI format in the MongoDB [documentation](https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/connection-string/) The default socket timeout depends on the exporting connector update interval. The timeout is 500 ms shorter than the interval (but not less than 1000 ms). You can alter the timeout using the `sockettimeoutms` MongoDB URI option.