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.

“Too many cooks spoil the broth.” It’s an old saying we’ve heard many times. If we put it in today’s IT monitoring context, we could change it to “too many tools spoil the insights and efficiency.”