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Grafana Cloud Database Observability

Grafana Cloud Database Observability

Gain insights into your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. Collect metrics and logs with Grafana Alloy, troubleshoot issues, and optimize queries.

Overview

Note

Database Observability is currently in public preview. Grafana Labs offers limited support, and breaking changes might occur prior to the feature being made generally available.

Grafana Cloud Database Observability provides a comprehensive overview of your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases across self-managed and managed services, for example, AWS RDS.

Developers, database administrators (DBAs), and site reliability engineers (SREs) use Database Observability to quickly identify and resolve database performance issues.

With Database Observability, you can:

  • Analyze query performance: Perform deeper analysis of performance patterns, understand resource consumption, and identify optimization opportunities.
  • Investigate performance issues: Quickly diagnose sudden spikes in query latency, troubleshoot high error rates, and analyze the impact of deployments.
  • Diagnose complex issues: Use explain plans and query samples to diagnose complex issues and optimize queries.
  • Optimize database resources: Use query samples, wait events, and explain plans to optimize queries and improve resource usage.

To learn more about the concepts and benefits of Database Observability, refer to the Introduction to Database Observability.