Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.

This is the second blog in a three-part series on the value of SolarWinds^® Observability. In the first part of this series, we explored the substantial return on investment (ROI) that comes from consolidating your monitoring tools into a single, unified observability platform. Cutting tool sprawl can save you hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by lowering software costs, reducing incidents, and slashing resolution times. But there’s a crucial piece of the puzzle we haven’t discussed yet: how you pay for it.

For today’s IT pros, the pressure is on to do more with less. Budgets are tight, but demands for performance, reliability, and security have never been higher.