Company
Date Published
Author
Sriram Raman, Aaron Kaplan
Word count
828
Language
English
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None

Summary

Datadog has introduced an out-of-the-box (OOTB) dashboard for its BigQuery integration, which provides comprehensive visibility into BigQuery costs and query efficiency. The dashboard helps users track and analyze their BigQuery usage, gauge the efficiency of their queries, and optimize costs and performance. It offers various key metrics to visualize compute resources and storage consumption, including jobs in flight, bytes scanned, and BigQuery storage. Additionally, it provides dedicated sections for tracking slot allocation and storage usage, as well as monitoring query execution times and optimizing query performance. The dashboard can help users get comprehensive visibility into their data analytics stack, troubleshoot issues, and reduce cloud spend.