Documentation Grafana Cloud Monitor applications Database Observability Monitor

Monitor database performance

Database Observability provides dashboards and tools to monitor your database performance in real-time. Use these features to understand query patterns, identify performance issues, and track key metrics.

What you can do

• View query performance: Monitor query execution times, error rates, and throughput across your databases using the Queries Overview dashboard.
• Link application traces: Correlate application traces with database queries, moving between a trace span and corresponding query samples.

Monitor workflow

1. Review the Overview dashboard: Check RED metrics (Rate, Errors, Duration) for all queries.
2. Filter and group: Use labels to focus on specific applications or environments.
3. Identify issues: Sort by wait event duration, errors, or any other metric to find problematic queries.
4. Investigate: Click through to query details for deeper analysis.

Explore next steps

• View query performance
  Learn how to use the Queries Overview dashboard to monitor database performance and identify issues.
• Find your application's queries
  Identify and trace database queries back to your application code using filtering and labels.
• Link traces and database queries
  Identify and trace queries back to your application code through trace correlation.