Monitor AWS Redshift with Datadog

AWS Redshift is a fully-managed data warehouse designed to handle petabyte-scale datasets with its low price, easy integration, and speed due to columnar data storage, zone mapping, and automatic data compression. Datadog's Redshift integration allows users to collect and visualize overall Redshift health and individual cluster health metrics for optimal performance. The out-of-the-box dashboard provides visualization of important metrics such as database connections, network throughput, read/write latency, and disk space usage. Monitoring these metrics helps identify potential issues like low disk space or reduced performance, which can be addressed by adjusting Workload Management (WLM) configuration, adding system resources, or changing node types. Custom alerts can also be set up to notify users of important changes in any of the cluster metrics.