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Section 1 · Database monitoring fundamentals

How Grafana Cloud Database Observability and database integrations differ

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Two different layers

A database integration and Database Observability aren’t two versions of the same product, and you don’t choose one over the other. They monitor different layers of the database and answer different questions.

One database, two levels of monitoring: an integration watches instance-level metrics from outside, while Database Observability looks at tracked queries

Database ObservabilityDatabase integration
What it monitorsTracked queriesThe database instance as a whole
Question it answersHow do tracked queries perform, and why?Is the database healthy?
What you seeRate, errors, and duration for tracked queries, explain plans for SELECT queries, wait events, and query samplesAggregate, instance-level metrics such as connections, throughput, and replication, with prebuilt dashboards and alerts
DatabasesMySQL and PostgreSQLMany, including MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL