We can’t let our databases fail. We need to have measures in place to guarantee that the crucial business data is not impacted. One way of doing that is real-time database monitoring which involves continuously observing, analyzing, and managing the performance and health of a database system. Let's see what that is and how to use it.

Current monitoring solutions focus on capturing the raw data and various signals from multiple layers. This lets us build dashboards and alarms to automatically monitor the performance of our applications. While this approach works, it puts too high a burden on the developers without providing them with tools and processes. Even though this sounds contradictory, current monitoring solutions do not show us what is going on and do not let us analyze the performance properly. Let's see how to fix that.

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