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Abril Loya McCloud
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561
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English
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Summary

AWS Redshift is a fully-managed data warehouse designed to handle petabyte-scale datasets, offering low price, easy integration with other systems, and speed thanks to columnar data storage, zone mapping, and automatic data compression. Datadog's Redshift integration allows for automatic collection and visualization of overall cluster health and individual metrics, enabling users to ensure optimal performance. The integration provides a range of key metric groups to monitor, including disk usage, network throughput, and IOPS, as well as tools for addressing reduced performance through configuration adjustments and node upgrades. By setting up custom alerts and correlating Redshift metrics with infrastructure metrics, users can stay ahead of potential issues and quickly identify the root cause of problems. With Datadog's integration, existing customers can easily enable metric collection, while new users can sign up for a free trial to start monitoring their clusters today.