---
title: "EgressRelay"
description: "the outbound relay every connector's traffic leaves through, with bytes accounted per connector against a limit"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/egressrelay
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# EgressRelay

the outbound relay every connector's traffic leaves through, with bytes accounted per connector against a limit

[figure: EgressRelay is a definition at platform scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | definition |
| scope | platform |
| key | its name |
| store | postgres |
| family | network |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `address` | `address` | yes |  |
| `bytes_limit_per_connector_per_day` | `bytes` | yes | a parameter of the machinery family |
| `accounting` | [EgressReading](/concepts/egressreading) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns EgressRelay directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.