# Destinations
Destinations are the final endpoints where your processed telemetry data is sent for storage, analysis, or visualization. This section provides documentation for all supported destination platforms and systems.
## What are Destinations?
Destinations receive and store your telemetry data for:
* **Observability**: Monitoring, alerting, and visualization
* **Security**: Threat detection and compliance monitoring
* **Analytics**: Data analysis and business intelligence
* **Storage**: Long-term data retention and archival
* **Integration**: Connecting with other tools and platforms
## Destination Categories
### Observability Platforms
* **APM & Monitoring**: Datadog, New Relic, Splunk Observability Cloud, ClickHouse/ClickStack
* **Log Management**: Elasticsearch, Splunk, Logz.io, Coralogix, ClickHouse/ClickStack
* **Metrics & Monitoring**: Prometheus, Grafana Cloud, Victoria Metrics, ClickHouse/ClickStack
* **Distributed Tracing**: Jaeger, Zipkin, Honeycomb.io, ClickHouse/ClickStack
### Cloud Services
* **AWS**: CloudWatch, S3, Managed Prometheus
* **Google Cloud**: Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Storage
* **Azure**: Monitor, Blob Storage, Sentinel
* **Multi-Cloud**: Cross-platform observability solutions
### Security & Compliance
* **SIEM Platforms**: Splunk, QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel
* **Security Operations**: Google SecOps, Chronicle
* **Compliance**: Audit logging and regulatory compliance
* **Threat Detection**: Security monitoring and alerting
### Storage & Analytics
* **Databases**: ClickHouse, InfluxDB, Snowflake
* **Data Lakes**: S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage
* **Message Queues**: Kafka, RabbitMQ
* **Custom Endpoints**: HTTP webhooks, OTLP endpoints
## Supported Telemetry Types
Each destination supports one or more telemetry types:
* **Logs**: Text-based data for debugging and analysis
* **Metrics**: Numerical data for monitoring and alerting
* **Traces**: Distributed tracing data for performance analysis
## Available Destinations
### Observability Platforms
| Destination | Logs | Metrics | Traces | Persistent Queuing |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ------- | ------ | ------------------ |
| [Axiom](/integrations/destinations/axiom.md) | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Chronosphere](/integrations/destinations/chronosphere.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Coralogix](/integrations/destinations/coralogix.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Dash0](/integrations/destinations/dash0.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Datadog](/integrations/destinations/datadog.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Dynatrace](/integrations/destinations/dynatrace.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [New Relic](/integrations/destinations/new-relic.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Splunk Observability Cloud](/integrations/destinations/splunk-observability-cloud.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Splunk HEC](/integrations/destinations/splunk-hec.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
| [Elasticsearch (OTLP)](/integrations/destinations/elasticsearch-otlp.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Elasticsearch (Legacy)](/integrations/destinations/elasticsearch-legacy.md) | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Grafana Cloud](/integrations/destinations/grafana-cloud.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Grafana Loki](/integrations/destinations/loki.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
| [Grafana Tempo](/integrations/destinations/grafana-tempo.md) | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Kloudmate](/integrations/destinations/kloudmate.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Logz.io](/integrations/destinations/logz.io.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Middleware](/integrations/destinations/middlewareio.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Honeycomb.io](/integrations/destinations/honeycomb.io.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Observe](/integrations/destinations/observe.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Oodle](/integrations/destinations/oodle-ai.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Sumo Logic](/integrations/destinations/sumo-logic.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [SUSE Observability](/integrations/destinations/suse-observability.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Statsig](/integrations/destinations/statsig.md) | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ |
| [VictoriaMetrics](/integrations/destinations/victoria-metrics.md) | | ✓ | | ✓ |
| [VictoriaLogs](/integrations/destinations/victoria-logs.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
| [VictoriaTraces](/integrations/destinations/victoria-traces.md) | | | ✓ | ✓ |
### Cloud Services
| Destination | Logs | Metrics | Traces | Persistent Queuing |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---- | ------- | ------ | ------------------ |
| [Amazon Managed Prometheus](/integrations/destinations/amazon-managed-prometheus.md) | | ✓ | | |
| [AWS S3](/integrations/destinations/aws-s3.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Azure Blob Storage](/integrations/destinations/azure-blob-storage.md) | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Azure Monitor](/integrations/destinations/azure-monitor.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Google Cloud](/integrations/destinations/google-cloud.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Google Cloud Storage](/integrations/destinations/google-cloud-storage.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus](/integrations/destinations/google-cloud-managed-service-for-prometheus.md) | | ✓ | | |
### Security & Compliance
| Destination | Logs | Metrics | Traces | Persistent Queuing |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---- | ------- | ------ | ------------------ |
| [AWS Security Lake](/integrations/destinations/aws-security-lake.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
| [CrowdStrike Falcon LogScale](/integrations/destinations/crowdstrike-falcon-logscale.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
| [Microsoft Sentinel](/integrations/destinations/microsoft-sentinel.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
| [Google SecOps (Chronicle)](/integrations/destinations/google-secops-chronicle.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
| [Google SecOps (Chronicle) Forwarder](/integrations/destinations/google-secops-chronicle-forwarder.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
| [QRadar](/integrations/destinations/qradar.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
### Storage & Analytics
### Distributed Tracing
| Destination | Logs | Metrics | Traces | Persistent Queuing |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ------- | ------ | ------------------ |
| [Honeycomb Refinery](/integrations/destinations/honeycomb-refinery.md) | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Jaeger](/integrations/destinations/jaeger.md) | | | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Zipkin](/integrations/destinations/zipkin.md) | | | ✓ | ✓ |
### Custom & Development
| Destination | Logs | Metrics | Traces | Persistent Queuing |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---- | ------- | ------ | ------------------ |
| [Bindplane Gateway](/integrations/destinations/bindplane-gateway.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Custom](/integrations/destinations/custom.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| [Dev Null](/integrations/destinations/dev-null.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| [OpenTelemetry](/integrations/destinations/opentelemetry-otlp.md) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| [Webhook](/integrations/destinations/webhook.md) | ✓ | | | ✓ |
## Getting Started
### Choose Your Destinations
1. **Identify Your Use Cases**: Determine what you want to achieve with your data
2. **Select Appropriate Destinations**: Choose destinations that match your needs
3. **Plan Data Flow**: Consider how data will flow through your pipeline
4. **Configure Destinations**: Set up destination configurations in Bindplane
### Best Practices
* **Start Simple**: Begin with basic destinations and add complexity gradually
* **Use Multiple Destinations**: Send different data types to appropriate destinations
* **Monitor Performance**: Watch for data flow and destination performance
* **Test Configurations**: Use live preview to test destination configurations
* **Plan for Scale**: Consider data volume and destination capacity
* **Security First**: Use secure authentication and encryption for sensitive data
* **Backup Strategy**: Consider multiple destinations for redundancy
## Destination Features
### Persistent Queuing
Many destinations support persistent queuing, which allows data to be buffered locally when the destination is unavailable, ensuring no data loss during network issues or destination downtime.
### Proxy Support
Some destinations support proxy configurations for environments that require traffic to go through corporate proxies or firewalls.
### Retry Mechanisms
All destinations include configurable retry mechanisms to handle temporary failures and ensure reliable data delivery.
### Authentication
Destinations support various authentication methods including:
* API Keys and Tokens
* OAuth 2.0
* Service Account credentials
* Certificate-based authentication
## Next Steps
* [Browse all available destinations](#available-destinations) to find what you need
* [Learn about sources](/integrations/sources.md) for data collection
* [Explore processors](/integrations/processors.md) for data transformation
* [Understand destination configuration](https://github.com/observIQ/bindplane-docs/blob/main/docs/integrations/feature-guides/processors.md) best practices
* [Set up your first destination](https://github.com/observIQ/bindplane-docs/blob/main/docs/integrations/getting-started-with-bindplane/build-your-first-configuration.md)
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