Monitoring Vector Search Operations in Production: How I Integrated Zilliz Cloud with Datadog

As an engineer scaling semantic search systems, I’ve learned that observability separates functional prototypes from production-grade AI. Last quarter, I hit critical bottlenecks in our retrieval-augmented generation pipeline when QPS spiked unexpectedly. The core issue? Our monitoring couldn’t correlate Milvus-based vector search latency with downstream LLM inference. That’s when I integrated Zilliz Cloud’s managed vector database with Datadog – and gained surgical visibility into vector operations. Here’s how it works in practice.

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Milvus Lite

I’m currently prototyping OpenTelemetry spans for Milvus proxies to capture request-routing overhead. Early tests show this could reduce 30% of tail latency. I’ll share findings in a follow-up deep dive.

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