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Journey overview

Welcome

Grafana Cloud gives you two ways to monitor your databases: Database Observability and database integrations.

If you run MySQL or PostgreSQL and want to understand what’s happening inside a query, Database Observability gives you that visibility. If you want metrics, dashboards, and alerts across a broader set of databases, database integrations have you covered.

Two monitoring approaches

  • Database Observability: query-level visibility for MySQL and PostgreSQL, so you can see how every query performs, not just aggregate database metrics
  • Database integrations: database-level metrics, prebuilt dashboards, and alerting rules across MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Oracle, and the SQL databases

What this journey covers

  • Database Observability: what it shows, how it works, and how to set it up for MySQL or PostgreSQL
  • Database integrations: what they provide and how to set them up for MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle

Supported databases

  • Database Observability: MySQL and PostgreSQL, both self-managed and on managed services (Amazon RDS, Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, and Azure Database)
  • Database integrations: MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle

Script

Welcome to the Monitoring databases journey.

Grafana Cloud gives you two ways to monitor your databases. Database Observability provides deep, query-level insight for MySQL and PostgreSQL, showing you how every query performs, how the database runs them, and where they spend time waiting. Database integrations provide database-level metrics, prebuilt dashboards, and alerting rules across a wider range of databases, including MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, and Oracle, as well as MySQL and PostgreSQL.

This journey introduces both, so you can choose the right approach for each database and know what each one gives you.

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