# Cloud

Monitoring and alerting for Materialize Cloud




> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/llms.txt).


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](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/cloud/datadog/index.md)

- [Grafana](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/cloud/grafana/index.md)

### 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](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/cloud/alerting/index.md).


## Pages in this section

- [Alerting](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/cloud/alerting/index.md): Alerting thresholds to use for monitoring.
- [Datadog](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/cloud/datadog/index.md): How to monitor the performance and overall health of your Materialize region using Datadog.
- [Grafana](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/cloud/grafana/index.md): How to monitor the performance and overall health of your Materialize region using Grafana.