> ## Documentation Index
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# Metrics and alerts

> The metrics e6data exposes, the dashboards worth building, and the alerts to set on your observability stack.

e6data exposes operational telemetry that you route to your own observability stack via OpenTelemetry - see [Observability export](/platform/monitoring/observability-export) for setup. This page covers what to dashboard and which alerts to set.

## Key metrics

| Area | Metrics |
| - | - |
| Cluster health | Executor count, CPU and memory, queue depth |
| Query performance | P50/P95/P99 query latency, slow-query count |
| Workload | Queries per minute, concurrent queries, cache hit rate |
| Errors | Failed-query rate, error-type breakdown, timeout rate |

## Dashboards to build

* **Cluster health** - executor count, CPU/memory, and queue depth per cluster.
* **Query performance** - latency percentiles and slow-query count over time.
* **Workload patterns** - throughput, concurrency, and cache hit rate.
* **Errors** - failed-query rate and the breakdown by error type.

If your observability backend has prebuilt e6data dashboards, start from those.

## Alerts to set

| Alert | Suggested condition |
| - | - |
| Cluster fails to resume | More than 5 minutes in `Pending` after a resume is triggered |
| Failed-query rate spike | Above your established baseline for the cluster |
| Query-timeout spike | A sudden increase in timed-out queries |
| P99 latency breach | Above your latency threshold, per cluster |
| Cache hit rate drop | Below the expected baseline |
| Workspace disabled unexpectedly | Any unplanned workspace disable |

Set these in your observability backend on the exported metrics; e6data doesn't send alerts itself.

## See also

* [Observability export](/platform/monitoring/observability-export)
* [Monitoring](/platform/monitoring)
* [Health checks](/platform/monitoring/health-checks)


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