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Observability

Observability that goes deeper than the dashboard.

Correlate every slow endpoint to the exact query, plan, and lock that caused it — in real time, across your entire fleet.

What it is

See what your database is actually doing — right now.

A purpose-built observability layer for database workloads. We unify active session history, wait-event profiling, plan evolution, replication lag, and I/O pressure into a single real-time view — and stitch it to the application traces and infrastructure metrics that explain the story.

Why it matters

The hard part isn't the model — it's the workflow.

Generic APM tools show you *that* the database is slow. They rarely show you *why*. Real-Time Observability is built by DBAs, for DBAs — surfacing the wait events, plan regressions, and lock graphs that actually drive resolution.

What's included

Sub-second active session history and wait-event profiling
Plan-change detection with automatic regression alerts
Lock and deadlock graph visualization
Replication topology and lag monitoring
Workload shape analysis: TPS, QPS, mix, and bursts
Integration with Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, and Prometheus

Real-world scenarios

How enterprises deploy this service to solve specific, high-stakes problems.

Media & streaming

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.

Healthcare

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.

FinTech

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.

How it works

1

Instrument

Deploy the observability agent on primaries and replicas — zero schema changes.

2

Correlate

Wire into your existing APM, logging, and alerting stack.

3

Tune

Calibrate anomaly thresholds to your workload shape.

4

Operate

Standing dashboards, weekly workload reports, and on-demand deep dives.

Typical outcomes

< 30s
time-to-detect for plan regressions
38%
median p99 latency improvement in first quarter
100%
of critical queries visible with plan + waits
Works with
PostgreSQLMySQLAuroraRDSDatadogNew RelicGrafanaPrometheusOpenTelemetry

Why VS Tech

Database-native

Wait events, plan changes, and lock graphs — not generic metrics.

Full-stack correlation

From user request to the exact SQL call and plan node.

Built for scale

Proven on fleets with thousands of instances and tens of TB.

Ready to see Observability in your environment?

Book a 30-minute working session with our team. We'll walk through your stack, your pain points, and what a pilot looks like.