ClickHouse Cloud

The managed version of ClickHouse provided by ClickHouse Inc.

Overview

ClickHouse is a highly-potent columnar database. If you want to, you can have ClickHouse Inc. run it for you in their cloud. If you are using their offering, you will still want insights into ClickHouse's behavior. To that extent, ClickHouse Cloud exposes metrics for its customers that you can view via Dash0.

Use Cases

See statistics about ClickHouse parts.
Inspect slow queries.
Inspect storage and usage.
See latency insights.

Overview

ClickHouse Cloud exposes metrics through a Prometheus endpoint that you can scrape. We recommend to scrape and forward these metrics via an OpenTelemetry Collector.

Retrieving Credentials

To start, you will need a few values and secrets from your ClickHouse Cloud installation. The ClickHouse Cloud documentation explains how to access these. Once available, store these. In the next step, we will assume that these are exposed through environment variables. We also recommend to define the name of the environment within an environment variable called ENVIRONMENT_NAME.

Collector Configuration

The following code snippet shows an OpenTelemetry Collector configuration file. Be awared that the value of job_name in the below configuration will be used as server.name attribute value.

Collector Deployment

Learn how to deploy the collector within our OpenTelemetry collector integration documentation.

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