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Section 1 · Database monitoring fundamentals

What you'll learn in the Monitoring databases journey

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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