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DevOps Best Practices for Database

DevOps has been bridging the gap between the development and operations teams for more than a decade. It is eliminating the organizational barriers between the two and automates the delivery process. It's time to start treating databases the same way we treat the delivery pipeline when applying DevOps. When we have a large database, automation is crucial. When the database has too much information, changing a table can take ages and block further changes like inserts, updates, or deletes.

How to monitor Cassandra using OpenTelemetry

We are constantly working on contributing monitoring support for various sources, the latest in that line is support for Cassandra monitoring using the OpenTelemetry collector. If you are as excited as we are, take a look at the details of this support in OpenTelemetry’s repo. The best part is that this receiver works with any OpenTelemetry collector: including the OpenTelemetry Collector and observIQ’s distribution of the collector.

Redgate SQL Monitor - Monitor SQL server performance and availability

Open up Redgate SQL Monitor and, wherever your servers are, you’ll get the full picture of their health in an instant. Its web-based interface gives you an at-a-glance understanding of your entire estate whether it’s hosted on-premises, on Virtual Machines, or in Azure, AWS or Google Cloud. You can then drill down to analyse both current and historic metrics for your servers such as top queries, waits, tempdb and more.

Tracing Gorm queries with OpenCensus & Google Cloud Tracing

At incident.io we use gorm.io as the ORM library for our Postgres database, it’s a really powerful tool and one I’m very glad for after years of working with hand-rolled SQL in Go & Postgres apps. You may have seen from our other blog posts that we’re heavily invested in tracing, specifically with Google Cloud Tracing via OpenCensus libraries.

PostgreSQL Logging Configuration Explained: How to Enable Database Logs

PostgreSQL is an open-source relational database management system that’s been utilized in continuous development and production for 30 years now. Nearly all the big tech companies use PostgreSQL, as it is one of the most reliable, battle-tested relational database systems today. PostgreSQL is a critical point in your infrastructure, as it stores all of your data. This makes visibility mandatory, which in turn means you have to understand how logging works in PostgreSQL.

Analyze wait events and in-flight queries with the Datadog Database List

When you’re operating databases at scale, being able to get real-time insights across all your databases is essential for addressing issues and identifying areas for optimization. Datadog Database Monitoring’s Database List allows you to monitor your entire database fleet in one place, so you can quickly identify and troubleshoot overloaded hosts and gauge the impact of problematic queries throughout your infrastructure.

InfluxDB Named a Leader in G2's Summer Grid Report for Time Series Databases

Industry-leading time series platform recognized for ease of setup and user satisfaction SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2022 – InfluxData, creator of the leading time series platform InfluxDB, today announced it has been named a leader in the G2 Grid for Time Series Databases, as well a leader within the inaugural Momentum Grid® Report for Time Series Databases in the Summer 2022 ratings from G2, the world’s leading business solution review platform.

Morph: Database Schema Migrations Made Easy

Morph is a new database migration tool designed to improve Mattermost schema migrations. It can be used programmatically with a library and from a CLI. Morph stores the schema version in a table, where all applied migrations are persisted. It’s a flexible open source library that can be used with a driver interface implementation and a source to read migration scripts from. The engine uses a dependency injection pattern so that any implementation can be used with the library.