Database monitoring

Minimize downtime proactively by optimizing application performance with precise, real-time database observability

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Proactive database performance optimization

A subpar database performance can slow down your applications and even cause outages resulting in not only a diminished end-user experience but also a major dent in your revenue and reputation. To maintain a high-performing applications, you need database monitoring tools designed to proactively detect and fix database performance issues in modern application environments.

Database monitoring with IBM Instana Observability helps you optimize database performance by using key metrics to automatically detect and address bottlenecks such as costly or slow queries. With real-time database observability, you can identify problematic queries in your flow. You also gain access to all the trace data and metrics needed to ensure that your business-critical applications consistently perform at their best.

Prevent outages proactively

Prevent downtimes with precise, real-time database observability. Instana continuously discovers all databases, ingests metrics, traces each request, profiles every process and maps all application dependencies automatically, without any sampling.

Optimize performance and availability

Optimize the performance and availability of your applications with contextual insights from Instana’s dynamic graph (full-stack model), context guide (architectural UX) and unbounded analytics (correlated analytics) capabilities.

Reduce MTTD and MTTR

Optimize application and underlying database performance with Instana’s AI-enhanced observability, which contextualizes performance data across your entire application stack to help reduce MTTD and MTTR.

Fast setup and ease of use

With minimal configuration and out-of-the-box dashboards, Instana is easy to deploy and use, reducing ramp-up time and the skill level needed to get value fast.

Features

Automatic database discovery

Instana automatically discovers databases, deploys appropriate monitoring sensors, and begins tracing application requests. This automation helps identify and prevent performance issues or outages before they impact end users.

Product screenshot showing a map view of the infrastructure and its components, focusing on the database

Application dependency maps

Instana automatically identifies and visualizes the relationships and dependencies between all application components including databases to provide full observability.

Product screenshot with a view of the dependencies and relationships between application and infrastructure components

Database performance management

Instana protects service integrity by collecting high-fidelity application metrics, identifying changes and incidents in real time and tracing any incidents back to specific applications or databases.

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Rapid root cause analysis

Instana automatically identifies whether service incidents stem from the database, the infrastructure platform or the application component. This capability enables your teams to swiftly identify and address the root cause of performance issues.

Instana product interface for root cause analysis

AI-assisted incident remediation

Instana delivers real-time observability with 1-second granularity and 3-second notification. Unbounded analytics helps analyze and correlate all the metrics and trace data, enabling automatic root cause analysis and incident remediation.

IBM Instana Intelligent Incident Investigation powered by agentic AI: Remediate with runbook of actions
Proven results 65% reduction in incident response time from approximately 3 hours to 1 hour Read the case study 50% faster detection of anomalies Read the case study 30% improvement in mean time to resolution (MTTR) Read the case study

300+ supported technologies

Instana integrates with other monitoring tools, including log management and network monitoring solutions like IBM Turbonomic®. This integration enables a comprehensive view of application performance across the entire IT infrastructure—without requiring plug-ins or application restarts.

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Next steps

IBM Instana Observability gives everyone across the enterprise intuitive access to the data that they need, with the context required for rapid issue prevention and remediation.

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