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Database Observability: Is it right for you

Is it right for you?

Database Observability meets your needs when you:

  • Have application traces that stop at the database boundary. You can see a query is slow, but not what inside the database is causing it.
  • Run MySQL or PostgreSQL on RDS or Aurora
  • Have developers and SREs spending incident time waiting for a DBA to investigate database problems, and that bottleneck is slowing resolution
  • Are already using Grafana Cloud for application or infrastructure observability, and the database layer is a blind spot
  • Are paying a per-host premium for database monitoring, and the bill grows every time you add an instance