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.

Improving customer satisfaction and growing revenue doesn’t always start with a new feature or service; it often starts with understanding how users experience what you already have.

When it comes to understanding application performance, most teams start with Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and for good reason. APM is essential for tracking the technical health of your applications: it monitors service availability, response times, and error rates, and helps teams dig deep into backend systems to understand what’s going on.

Real user monitoring (RUM) is a core proactive technique for understanding how real users are moving through your site. The primary tool for this has been to monitor via public probes, which are agents hosted in major cloud regions and global cities (Los Angeles and Frankfurt, for example).