- About TiDB Cloud
- Get Started
- Manage Cluster
- Plan Your Cluster
- Create a TiDB Cluster
- Connect to Your TiDB Cluster
- Set Up VPC Peering Connections
- Use an HTAP Cluster
- Scale a TiDB Cluster
- Tune Performance
- Upgrade a TiDB Cluster
- Delete a TiDB Cluster
- Migrate Data
- Import Sample Data
- Migrate Data into TiDB
- Export Data from TiDB
- Back Up and Restore Data
- Monitor and Alert
- Overview
- Built-in Alerting
- Third-Party Monitoring Integrations
- Manage User Access
- Billing
- Reference
- FAQs
- Release Notes
Monitor a TiDB Cluster
This document describes how to monitor a TiDB cluster on TiDB Cloud.
Cluster status and node status
You can see the current status of each running cluster on the cluster page.
Cluster Status
| Cluster status | Description |
|---|---|
| Normal | Normal running (including data migration) |
| Creating | Creating the cluster |
| Importing | The cluster is importing data |
| Scaling | Scaling the TiDB, TiKV, or TiFlashbeta nodes |
| Upgrading | Upgrading the TiDB version |
| Unavailable | The TiDB Cloud service is not available |
| Unhealthy | Part of nodes are unavailable, not enough replicas, and so on |
| Recovering | Backup recovery |
TiDB node status
| TiDB node status | Description |
|---|---|
| Normal | Normal running |
| Creating | Creating the node |
| Unavailable | The TiDB node is not available |
| Terminating | The TiDB node is terminating |
TiKV node status
| TiKV node status | Description |
|---|---|
| Normal | Normal running |
| Creating | Creating the node |
| Unavailable | The TiKV node is not available |
| Terminating | The TiKV node is terminating |
| Leaving | Migrating the current node data before termination |
Monitoring metrics
On the cluster overview page, you can view the commonly used metrics of the cluster.
Navigate to the Active Clusters page.
Click the name of a cluster to go to the cluster overview page.
Currently, the metrics include Total QPS, Latency, Connections, TiFlashbeta Request QPS, TiFlashbeta Request Duration, TiFlashbeta Storage Size, TiKV Storage Size, TiDB CPU, TiKV CPU, TiKV IO Read, and TiKV IO Write.
Built-in alerting
TiDB Cloud has some built-in alerting conditions. You can configure TiDB Cloud to receive an email notification whenever a TiDB Cloud cluster in your project triggers a TiDB Cloud built-in alert condition.
For more information, see Built-in Alerting.
Third-party integrations
Required access
To edit third-party integration settings, you must have the Organization Owner access to your organization or Project Member access to the target project.
View or modify third-party integrations
- On the TiDB Cloud console, choose a target project that you want to view or modify, and then click the Project Settings tab.
- In the left pane, click Integrations. The available third-party integrations are displayed.
Available integrations
| Third-party service | Configuration details |
|---|---|
| Datadog integration | Configures TiDB Cloud to send metric data about your TiDB clusters to Datadog. You can view these metrics in your Datadog dashboards. To get a detailed list of all metrics that Datadog tracks, refer to Datadog Integration. |
| Prometheus and Grafana integration | Get a scrape_config file for Prometheus from TiDB Cloud and use the content from the file to configure Prometheus. You can view these metrics in your Grafana dashboards. To get a detailed list of all metrics that Prometheus tracks, refer to Prometheus and Grafana Integration. |