# Monitoring Clusters

You can monitor your cluster’s state in real-time via a set of dashboards. They allow you to quickly identify and
fix issues that impact the cluster’s health and performance. For example, you can review the status of your nodes, read and
write latencies, throughput and storage, historical trends, memory, compactions, alerts about potential problems, and
much more. You can drill down from high-level to detailed dashboards and display information by DC, node, or shard.

Click the **Monitoring** tab in your cluster’s view to access the dashboards and review the information for your cluster.

The monitoring information is kept for 45 days.

## Monitoring Vector Search

If [Vector Search](https://cloud.docs.scylladb.com/stable/vector-search/index.md) is enabled on your cluster,
a dedicated **Vector Search** dashboard is available in the cluster’s
monitoring view. It shows the status of vector search nodes, loaded indexes,
disk usage, and memory utilization. Vector search nodes also export
application-level Prometheus metrics (e.g., query latency, insert throughput,
and vector count per index).

See [Monitoring Vector Search Clusters](https://cloud.docs.scylladb.com/stable/vector-search/vector-search-clusters.md#vs-monitoring) for details on
available metrics and example PromQL queries.

## Extracting Cluster Metrics in Prometheus Format

ScyllaDB clusters collect and report metrics regarding their workloads and health.
By default, the metrics are sent to the ScyllaDB Cloud Prometheus server, where they are monitored by the ScyllaDB Cloud team.
The most important subset of these metrics is available on the ScyllaDB Cloud monitoring page in the ScyllaDB Cloud web UI.

In addition, you can use a Prometheus proxy to access your cluster metrics outside of the ScyllaDB Cloud service
and monitor them with another tool. A Prometheus proxy allows you to extract data to an external third-party tool
that reads the Prometheus format, such as Datadog.

See [Extract Cluster Metrics in Prometheus Format](https://cloud.docs.scylladb.com/stable/operate/cloud-prom-proxy.md) for instructions how to extract your cluster
metrics in the Prometheus format.

## Learn More about ScyllaDB Monitoring

ScyllaDB Cloud’s monitoring dashboards are consistent with the ScyllaDB Monitoring stack for cluster monitoring and alerting.
See the following resources to learn more about the ScyllaDB Monitoring stack:

* [Using ScyllaDB Monitoring Stack](https://monitoring.docs.scylladb.com/stable/use-monitoring) - Documentation and User Guide
* [Make the Most of ScyllaDB’s Monitoring Stack](https://resources.scylladb.com/scylladb-best-practices/how-to-make-the-most-of-scyllas-all-new-monitoring-stack-a-one-stop-shop-for-all-things-monitoring) - A tech talk.