From f210f216818d2546decdcc60897bf915638b2de6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Costa Tsaousis Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:05:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- docs/exporting-metrics/README.md | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/exporting-metrics/README.md b/docs/exporting-metrics/README.md index 33f26795ccdeec..c4bafbc2126225 100644 --- a/docs/exporting-metrics/README.md +++ b/docs/exporting-metrics/README.md @@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ # Export metrics to external time-series databases -Netdata allows you to export metrics to external time-series databases with the [exporting engine](/src/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. +Netdata natively supports long term retention of metrics. Its tiered database design typically provides significantly longer retention (months to years) and faster queries (typically 20+ times faster), compared to other common time-series databases. -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. +For integration with other observability tools, Netdata provides a number of exporters allow you to copy metrics to third party time-series databases for additional analysis or integration with other tools. + +Exporters enable connections to [more than thirty](#supported-databases) supported databases, including InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite, ElasticSearch, and much more. + +The exporting engine is able to downsample Netdata's per-second metrics at a user-configurable interval (e.g per minute), 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