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# Export metrics to external time-series databases
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-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.
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+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.
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-The exporting engine resamples Netdata's thousands of per-second metrics at a user-configurable interval, and can export
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-metrics to multiple time-series databases simultaneously.
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+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.
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+Exporters enable connections to [more than thirty](#supported-databases) supported databases, including InfluxDB, Prometheus, Graphite, ElasticSearch, and much more.
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+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.
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Based on your needs and resources you allocated to your external time-series database, you can configure the interval
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that metrics are exported or export only certain charts with filtering. You can also choose whether metrics are exported
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as-collected, a normalized average, or the sum/volume of metrics values over the configured interval.
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-Exporting is an important part of Netdata's effort to be interoperable
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-with other monitoring software. You can use an external time-series database for long-term metrics retention, further
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-analysis, or correlation with other tools, such as application tracing.
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## Supported databases
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Netdata supports exporting metrics to the following databases through several