Proactive Observability for Vector Database: Zilliz Cloud Integrates with Datadog
Vector databases are one of the core infrastructures for modern ML applications. As organizations scale their AI operations, maintaining an optimal performance of their vector database infrastructure becomes increasingly critical. That's why we're excited to announce Zilliz Cloud's integration with Datadog, enabling comprehensive monitoring and observability for your vector database deployments with your favorite monitoring tool.
Why Vector Database Monitoring Matters
Vector databases are the backbone of modern AI applications, handling complex similarity searches and managing high-dimensional vector data. As these applications scale, having real-time insights into database performance becomes essential for maintaining reliability and optimizing resource usage. With Zilliz Cloud's Datadog integration, organizations can now monitor their vector database infrastructure alongside their entire technology stack, providing a unified view of their application ecosystem.
Comprehensive Monitoring with Preconfigured Dashboards
The Zilliz Cloud integration with Datadog provides immediate visibility into your cluster's performance through preconfigured dashboards. These dashboards deliver insights across three critical areas that matter most to your operations:
Resource Utilization
Monitor both your Computation Unit (CU) usage and storage consumption across clusters. These metrics help you track resource utilization patterns and make informed scaling decisions to optimize your infrastructure utilization and costs.
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Performance Metrics
Keep track of your system's performance through comprehensive metrics, including QPS (Queries Per Second), VPS (the total number of vectors manipulated across all requests), and latency measurements. The dashboard highlights critical indicators such as slow queries and failure rates, enabling you to maintain optimal service levels for your applications.
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Data Management
Stay informed about your data operations with metrics covering entity counts, loaded entities, and collection statistics. This visibility helps you manage resources effectively and ensure the smooth operation of your vector database.
Turn Monitoring into Action with Datadog Alerts
While the dashboard gives you visibility into your vector database's performance, real-time alerting helps you take timely action. Using Datadog's powerful alerting capabilities, you can leverage the metrics from your Zilliz Cloud clusters to proactively address potential issues before they impact your applications. Common alert configurations include:
Performance Alerts: Get notified when query latency or throughput crosses defined thresholds, helping you maintain SLAs and ensure optimal user experience
Resource Alerts: Receive warnings before storage or computational resources reach capacity, giving you time to scale your infrastructure proactively
Operation Alerts: Track the health of critical operations like data insertion and search queries, ensuring your vector search applications run smoothly
These alerts integrate seamlessly with your existing Datadog notification channels and incident management workflows, making it easy to incorporate vector database monitoring into your team's existing DevOps practices.
Getting Started in Four Simple Steps
Datadog integration is currently available on the Dedicated-Enterprise plan. To set up the integration, you just need to:
Log into your Zilliz Cloud console
Navigate to the Integrations section
Configure your Datadog integration with your API key
Select the clusters you want to monitor
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The integration supports multiple Datadog sites, including US1, US3, US5, EU1, and AP1, ensuring global coverage for your monitoring needs.
Taking Vector Database Monitoring to the Next Level
As vector databases become increasingly central to AI applications, robust monitoring capabilities are no longer optional—they're essential. The Zilliz Cloud Datadog integration provides the visibility and insights needed to optimize performance, reduce operational costs, ensure reliable service delivery, and enable proactive issue resolution.
With granular metric tagging support, you can analyze performance based on organization ID, project ID, cluster ID, request types, and operation status. This detailed visibility helps teams quickly identify and troubleshoot issues across their infrastructure.
Whether you're running large-scale AI applications or building new vector search capabilities, this integration gives you the tools needed to maintain optimal performance and reliability.
Ready to enhance your vector database monitoring? The Zilliz Cloud Datadog integration is available now for Dedicated-Enterprise plan users. If you’re not on the Dedicated-Enterprise cluster yet, you can upgrade your clusters on the UI or contact your Zilliz Cloud representative to learn more about upgrading your plan and accessing these advanced monitoring capabilities.
Chris ChuriloChris Churilo is the VP of Marketing & Community at Zilliz where she leads all community, developer relations, and marketing efforts. Prior to Zilliz, Chris was a founding member of the InfluxData’s go to market efforts and helped propel the time series database platform to dominance in the market. In earlier roles she defined and designed a SaaS monitoring solution at Centroid, and prior to that she was the VP of product management at iPass and was the LOB for several cloud services that required her to track the business and operational metrics and analytics to help identify and resolve issues.
- Why Vector Database Monitoring Matters
- Comprehensive Monitoring with Preconfigured Dashboards
- Turn Monitoring into Action with Datadog Alerts
- Getting Started in Four Simple Steps
- Taking Vector Database Monitoring to the Next Level
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