# Monitoring and alerting

Monitor the performance of your Materialize region with Datadog and Grafana.



## Cloud

### Monitoring

You can monitor the performance and overall health of your Materialize region.
To help you get started, the following guides are available:

- [Datadog](/manage/monitor/cloud/datadog/)

- [Grafana](/manage/monitor/cloud/grafana/)

### Alerting

After setting up a monitoring tool, you can configure alert rules. Alert rules
send a notification when a metric surpasses a threshold. This will help you
prevent operational incidents. For alert rules guidelines, see
[Alerting](/manage/monitor/cloud/alerting/).

## Self-Managed

### Monitoring

You can monitor the performance and overall health of your Self-Managed
Materialize.

To help you get started, the following guides are available:

- [Grafana using Prometheus](/manage/monitor/self-managed/prometheus/)

- [Datadog using Prometheus SQL Exporter](/manage/monitor/self-managed/datadog/)


### Alerting

After setting up a monitoring tool, you can configure alert rules. Alert rules
send a notification when a metric surpasses a threshold. This will help you
prevent operational incidents. For alert rules guidelines, see
[Alerting](/manage/monitor/self-managed/alerting/).



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## Cloud


This section covers monitoring and alerting for Materialize Cloud.

### Monitoring

You can monitor the performance and overall health of your Materialize region.
To help you get started, the following guides are available:

- [Datadog](/manage/monitor/cloud/datadog/)

- [Grafana](/manage/monitor/cloud/grafana/)

### Alerting

After setting up a monitoring tool, you can configure alert rules. Alert rules
send a notification when a metric surpasses a threshold. This will help you
prevent operational incidents. For alert rules guidelines, see
[Alerting](/manage/monitor/cloud/alerting/).


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## Self-Managed


This section covers monitoring and alerting for Self-Managed Materialize.

### Monitoring

You can monitor the performance and overall health of your Self-Managed
Materialize.

To help you get started, the following guides are available:

- [Grafana using Prometheus](/manage/monitor/self-managed/prometheus/)

- [Datadog using Prometheus SQL Exporter](/manage/monitor/self-managed/datadog/)


### Alerting

After setting up a monitoring tool, you can configure alert rules. Alert rules
send a notification when a metric surpasses a threshold. This will help you
prevent operational incidents. For alert rules guidelines, see
[Alerting](/manage/monitor/self-managed/alerting/).