# Monitoring and alerting Monitor the performance of your Materialize region with Datadog and Grafana. > For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/llms.txt). ## 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). ## Self-Managed ### Monitoring You can monitor the performance and overall health of your Self-Managed Materialize. The Materialize Terraform modules ([AWS ⧉](https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize-terraform-self-managed/tree/main/aws), [Azure ⧉](https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize-terraform-self-managed/tree/main/azure), [GCP ⧉](https://github.com/MaterializeInc/materialize-terraform-self-managed/tree/main/gcp)) install a monitoring stack alongside your deployment. It is enabled by default starting with v11.0.0 of the Materialize Terraform Modules. For the module install steps, see [Install using Terraform modules](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/self-managed-deployments/installation/index.md#install-using-terraform-modules). The stack collects metrics and logs from Materialize and from the cluster, stores them in your own infrastructure, and ships dashboards to query them: - [How logs and metrics are stored](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/storage/index.md), including the backends you can forward them to. - [Grafana](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/grafana/index.md), the dashboards and query interface that ship with the stack. - [Alerting](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/alerting/index.md), the bundled alert rules and the Alertmanager that routes them to your receivers. To configure the stack outside the Materialize Terraform modules, or to see the full set of module variables, see the [`materialize-monitoring` Terraform installation guide ⧉](https://materializeinc.github.io/materialize-monitoring/getting-started/terraform/). To send metrics and logs to a platform you already run, a guide is available for each destination: - [Datadog](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/datadog/index.md) - [Honeycomb](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/honeycomb/index.md) - [OpenTelemetry](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/opentelemetry/index.md), for any other OTLP endpoint, including your own collector. - [Google Cloud Monitoring](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/google-cloud-monitoring/index.md) - [Prometheus remote write](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/prometheus-remote-write/index.md), for Mimir, Amazon Managed Prometheus, Grafana Cloud, or a Thanos you run elsewhere. ### Alerting The monitoring stack installs Alertmanager and a default set of alert rules for Materialize and the Kubernetes platform under it. A default install configures no receiver, so no one is notified until you configure one. To route alerts to PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, email, or a webhook, see [Alerting](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/alerting/index.md). To route, tune, and silence them further, see [Customize alerting](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/customize-alerting/index.md). If you alert from a platform you already run instead, see [Thresholds for alerts you build yourself](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/alerting/index.md#thresholds). ## Pages in this section - [Appendix: Metrics](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/appendix-metrics/index.md): Reference list of the Prometheus metrics exposed by Materialize. - [Cloud](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/cloud/index.md): Monitoring and alerting for Materialize Cloud - [Essential metrics](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/essential-metrics/index.md): The Prometheus metrics Materialize recommends building dashboards and alerts on. - [Replica resource usage](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/replica-resource-usage/index.md): The per-process memory, swap and disk observations a cluster replica reports about itself, and how to interpret them. - [Self-Managed](https://preview.materialize.com/materialize/40269/markdown-docs/observability/self-managed/index.md): Monitor and alert on Self-Managed Materialize with the bundled monitoring stack or your own observability platform.