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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

Database Observability surfaces query performance data from your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, including support for self-managed servers and managed instances on AWS RDS, Amazon Aurora, Azure Database, and Google Cloud SQL, enabling you to quickly find and fix slow queries.

  • Monitor: Analyze query performance patterns, understand resource consumption, and identify optimization opportunities.
  • Investigate: Quickly diagnose sudden latency spikes, troubleshoot high error rates, analyze deployment impact, and use explain plans and query samples to understand complex issues.
  • Optimize: Use systematic optimization workflows and insights from investigation to fix slow queries and improve resource efficiency.

Explore

Introduction
Learn the concepts and goals of Database Observability and quick-start paths for your role.
Set up MySQL
Configure MySQL and Alloy to collect telemetry and forward it to Grafana Cloud.
Set up PostgreSQL
Configure PostgreSQL and Alloy to collect telemetry and forward it to Grafana Cloud.
Monitor
View query performance and find your application’s queries.
Investigate
Analyze explain plans, query samples, wait events, and table schemas to diagnose issues.
Optimize
Improve slow queries and get AI-powered optimization suggestions.
Configure
Tune Alloy collection, monitor multiple databases, and verify telemetry status.
Reference
Metrics, labels, and configuration impact documentation.
Troubleshoot
Fix issues with Alloy, collectors, relabeling, and Grafana Cloud remote write.
Release notes
See what’s new in each release, including new features, enhancements, and fixes.