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title: "Monitor database performance | Database Observability documentation"
description: "Use Database Observability to monitor query performance and find your application's queries."
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# 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**](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/monitor/view-query-performance/): Monitor query execution times, error rates, and throughput across your databases using the Queries Overview dashboard.
- [**Link application traces**](/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-applications/database-observability/monitor/link-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](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/monitor-applications/database-observability/monitor/view-query-performance/)  
  Learn how to use the Queries Overview dashboard to monitor database performance and identify issues.
- [Find your application's queries](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/monitor-applications/database-observability/monitor/find-application-queries/)  
  Identify and trace database queries back to your application code using filtering and labels.
- [Link traces and database queries](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/monitor-applications/database-observability/monitor/link-traces/)  
  Identify and trace queries back to your application code through trace correlation.