Configuring Environment Metrics

Defining the how and where of observability data
The Metrics tab

Figure 1 - The Metrics tab

The field details are:

Datadog options

Turn on Datadog

Enables Datadog for clusters in this environment. See Datadog's ClickHouse integration documentation for the details on configuring Datadog and the ClickHouse metrics that Datadog can monitor. Complete details on configuring Datadog access in the Altinity Cloud Monitor are in the section Enabling Datadog at the environment level.

API Key

Your Datadog API key.

Region

The region where your Datadog server is located.

Send Logs | Send Metrics | Send Table Metrics

These buttons allow you to send logs, metrics on the ClickHouse cluster, and/or table-level metrics in your ClickHouse cluster.

External Prometheus configuration options

Remote URL

The URL of your remote Prometheus server. In Figure 1 above, the remote write endpoint is https://logs-prod-006.grafana.net.

Auth User | Auth Password or Auth Token

The credentials for your remote Prometheus server. For greater security, you can also use a bearer token instead of the userid and password.

Metric Storage configuration option

Retention Period, Days

The number of days backups should be kept. The default value for Altinity.Cloud Anywhere environments is 30. For all other environments, this value is 180 and cannot be changed.