Datadog Database Monitoring enables our engineers on both the product and infrastructure teams to pinpoint query performance issues and ultimately avoid prolonged downtime that disrupts the end-user experience. The best part is that it’s all in a single tool.

Chris Seltzer

Engineering Manager, Compass

With Datadog, we can identify inefficient queries and address them. We immediately saw resource consumption improvements.

Amith Reddy

Site Reliability Engineer, Glovo

Using Datadog allowed us to pinpoint where we needed to tune the query and we then connected the product team responsible for the code.

Morgan Goose

Infrastructure Group Lead, Autodesk

Feature Overview

Datadog Database Monitoring (DBM) enables application developers and database administrators to troubleshoot and optimize inefficient queries across database environments. Easily understand database load, pinpoint long-running and blocking queries, drill into precise execution details, and optimize query performance to prevent incidents and spiraling database costs. With Database Monitoring, easily identify, investigate, and resolve slow and problematic queries by unifying database, application, and infrastructure telemetry in one place.

Troubleshoot database host and query inefficiencies

Triage database issues using wait event load analysis and host insights to quickly identify areas of underperformance
Find out what resources queries are waiting on and what users, queries, services, and applications are driving the load on database hosts
Isolate long-running queries by examining historical and currently running query performance and database configuration metrics
Resolve database table locks by visually identifying root blocking queries and impacted waiting queries to identify specific query processes to kill

Proactively optimize query performance

Track performance trends by monitoring key query metrics, including average latency, total execution time, and number of rows queried over time
Quickly improve underperforming queries that have long-running transactions, are high-impact blockers, or have index recommendations by using automated Watchdog insights
Identify the best performing query configurations by comparing individual query executions

Resolve outages faster with unified database and application performance

Accelerate root cause analysis of high latency by correlating distributed traces with query metrics and explain plans in one view
Triage issue faster across teams by understanding how database bottlenecks impact calling services and vice versa
Monitor database host and query metrics alongside service performance, reliability, and cost data in Software Catalog

Strengthen database observability across teams in one platform

Maintain high database reliability and quickly catch and respond to issues with out-of-the box monitors and SLO tracking
Track database trends alongside metrics, traces, and logs coming from across your stack with customizable, easy-to-build dashboards
Break organizational silos by providing shared database host and query visibility for development, operations, and database teams