Monitoring
Monitoring in TiDB Cloud provides tools and integrations that enable you to oversee TiDB performance, track activity, and respond to issues in a timely manner.
Built-in metrics
Built-in metrics refer to a full set of standard metrics that TiDB Cloud collects and presents on the Metrics page at the cluster level. With these metrics, you can easily identify performance issues and determine whether your current database deployment meets your requirements.
For more information, see TiDB Cloud Built-in Metrics.
Built-in alerting
Built-in alerting refers to the alerting mechanism that TiDB Cloud provides to assist you in monitoring your TiDB Cloud Essential instances and TiDB Cloud Dedicated clusters. Currently, TiDB Cloud provides the following three types of alerts:
Resource usage alerts
Data migration alerts
Changefeed alerts
On the Alerts page of the TiDB Cloud console, you can view alerts of your TiDB Cloud Essential instance or TiDB Cloud Dedicated cluster, edit alert rules, and subscribe to alert notification emails.
For more information, see TiDB Cloud Built-in Alerting.
Events
In TiDB Cloud, an event indicates a change in your TiDB Cloud resource.
- For TiDB Cloud Starter and Essential instances, TiDB Cloud logs the historical events at the instance level.
- For TiDB Cloud Dedicated clusters, TiDB Cloud logs the historical events at the cluster level.
You can view the logged events on the Events page, including the event type, status, message, trigger time, and trigger user.
For more information, see Events.
Third-party metrics integrations
TiDB Cloud lets you integrate any of the following third-party metrics services to receive TiDB Cloud alerts and view the performance metrics of your TiDB Cloud Dedicated cluster.