title: Apache Kafka Connector Monitoring and Alerting using Datadog required Configuration
body: <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4RB3j.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4RB3j.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a>We needed help in implementing the watchdog for Snowflake Kafka connector:</p>
  <p>However, was able to go ahead and implement as per the standards of datadog
  But however kafka connector and its related statistics are not visible in this.</p>
  <p>Below link has helped for the Snowflake based database and was able to configure successfully, but nothing related to Kafka Connector is present in this.</p>
  <p><a href="https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/snowflake/#snowflake-custom-queries" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.datadoghq.com/integrations/snowflake/#snowflake-custom-queries</a></p>