====Live Data Distribution====

ARDIs **Live Data Distribution** functions let you push live data to other platforms as it arrives.

It's useful for recording data to historians, or pushing data to distribution and messaging systems such as MQTT.

Importantly, it applies ARDIs naming and structure to the incoming data, ensuring that the information is recorded consistently and is easy for users to find.

//WARNING: Although steps have been taken to ensure that performance impact is minimal, distributing data to other locations has a performance impact on the consolidator and will increase both CPU usage and memory consumption on your ARDI server.//

[[Configuring Live Data Distribution]] \\
[[Pre-Built Distributors]] \\
[[Creating Your Own Distributor]] \\