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This feature is available on the Builder, Standard, and Enterprise plans.
Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool that tracks performance metrics and monitors events for infrastructure and cloud services. You can use Datadog with Pinecone in the following ways:
  • Track specific actions within Pinecone, such as request count, to find application requests with high latency or usage. Monitor trends over time to improve resource utilization and reduce spend.
  • Get alerted automatically when index fullness reaches a certain threshold. You can also create your own monitors to alert on specific metrics and thresholds.
  • Find and triage unexpected spikes in usage or latency by visualizing anomalies in Pinecone’s Datadog dashboard. View metrics over time to understand trends and determine the severity of a spike.

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Setup guide

Follow these steps to monitor a Pinecone project with Datadog:
  1. Go to the Pinecone integration tile in Datadog.
  2. Go to the Configure tab.
  3. Click + Add New.
  4. Enter a project name to identify your project in Datadog.
  5. Don’t select an environment. This is a legacy setting.
  6. Enter an API key for the Pinecone project you want to monitor.
  7. Enter the project ID of the Pinecone project you want to monitor.
  8. Save the configuration.
On the Monitoring Resources tab, you’ll find dashboards for the pod-based and serverless indexes in your project and recommendations for configuring monitors using Pinecone’s metrics.