Real-world scenarios
How enterprises deploy this service to solve specific, high-stakes problems.
Streaming service caught a plan regression minutes before a global outage
During a staged rollout, a schema change caused one hot query to flip to a sequential scan. Real-Time Observability flagged the plan change within 30 seconds and correlated it to the deploy ID, letting SRE roll back before user traffic was affected.
Hospital network traced intermittent EHR latency to a missing partition
A 90-day trend view revealed that slow clinical queries correlated with a quarterly data growth pattern the team had never seen on their default dashboards. The fix — partitioning — was identified in under an hour.
Payments platform reduced p99 checkout latency by 38% in one sprint
By surfacing the top 5 queries responsible for 80% of wait time, the engineering team rewrote three ORM calls and added two covering indexes — shrinking p99 under 120ms.