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Hands-on exercise summary

Hands-on exercise summary

What you accomplished:

  • Deployed Grafana Alloy with the Database Observability component
  • Configured your database connection with monitoring credentials
  • Verified that query-level data flows to Grafana Cloud
  • Explored the Queries Overview dashboard

Skills unlocked:

SkillYou can now…
Query visibilityFind the slowest queries across your databases
Explain plansSee how the database executes each query and where time is spent
Wait eventsIdentify lock contention, I/O bottlenecks, and resource waits
Query samplesInspect individual query executions with timing

What’s next

  • Try another database — Go back to MySQL or PostgreSQL if you want to set up a second database
  • Continue to integrations — Learn how to monitor databases that aren’t supported by Database Observability
  • Browse the docs — Explore the Database Observability documentation for advanced configuration

Script

Excellent work. You’ve set up Database Observability and can now see exactly which queries are slow, how the database executes them, and where time is being spent.

From here, you have a few options. You can go back and set up a second database if you’re running both MySQL and PostgreSQL. You can continue to the next module to learn about integrations for databases that aren’t yet supported by Database Observability. Or you can head to the documentation for advanced configuration.

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