description:Prometheus remote_read from TDengine cloud server
description:Prometheus 从 TDengine Cloud 远程读取
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Prometheus is a widespread open-source monitoring and alerting system. Prometheus joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in 2016 as the second incubated project after Kubernetes, which has a very active developer and user community.
Prometheus provides `remote_read` interface to leverage other database products as its storage engine. To enable users of the Prometheus ecosystem to take advantage of TDengine's efficient querying, TDengine also provides support for this interface so that data stored in TDengine can be queried via the `remote_read` interface, taking full advantage of TDengine's efficient query performance and clustering capabilities for time-series data.
This chapter introduces how to get data out of TDengine cloud service. Besides normal query using SQL, users can use [data subscripition](../data-subscription) which is provided by TDengine cloud service to do data subscription and share the data stored in TDengine to others. TDengine provides [connectors](../programming/connector) for application programmers to access the data stored in TDengine. TDengine also provides some tools, like [taosdump](../tools/taosdump), which is a tool provided by TDengine to dump the data stored in TDengine cloud service into files, and `taosX`, which is another tool to sync up the data in one TDengine cloud service into another. Furthermore, 3rd party tools, like prometheus, can also be used to write data into TDengine.