5 good questions to ask before migrating your database (and answers too)
Wherever your move to a managed cloud database service starts, the big questions are pretty similar. Start figuring it out right here.
Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud
The Place Where Modern Operations & Technology Come Together
The latest News and Information on Databases and related technologies.
10 Benefits of Database Monitoring for Business Leaders
A third-party database monitoring tool is an investment that drives enormous value for the bottom line of your business in ten key ways. Here's how a tool like Redgate SQL Monitor can save you money, time and assist with security and compliance concerns.
Why Database Monitoring Tools are Important for Senior Business Leaders | Interview with Matt Gordon
Matt Gordon is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and the Director of Data and Infrastructure at Rev.io. In this short video, he talks us through the 3 key reasons database monitoring tools are essential for him as a Director, and how they help him to lead a team successfully and productively.
Setting up Django to use Aiven for PostgreSQL
Aiven for PostgreSQL® Django is a fully-featured high-level Python web framework. Read on to see how to get it to store its data in an Aiven for PostgreSQL® database.
A Guide to PostgreSQL Performance Tuning
PostgreSQL is the most powerful and versatile SQL database available today. There is a problem that comes with this level of power and versatility. How do the developers of PostgreSQL fine-tune the default configuration for everyone? Well, they can't do it. The issue is that each database differs not only in design but also in needs. Some systems are used to store massive amounts of data that are rarely searched.
vmagent High-Availability Examples
vmagent supports both the pushing and pulling (scrape) of metrics and here are examples of high availability setups for both cases.
Four ways to elevate team efficiency and code quality
Development teams are under increasing pressure to keep up with the demand for faster delivery of database changes, while ensuring code quality isn’t compromised. This pressure comes from both business requirements and industry expectations. The 2021 Accelerate State of Database DevOps report reveals that the number of teams who are elite performers is increasing year-on-year (making up 26% of those in the study) and these teams have more frequent code deployments and a lower change failure rate.
Grafana Mimir: Maintainers tell all
Like all Norse gods and Marvel villains, every open source project has a good origin story. The new episode of “Grafana’s Big Tent” podcast provides that behind-the-code look at building Grafana Mimir, the horizontally scalable, highly performant open source time series database that Grafana Labs debuted in March.
Why and how you should automate database migrations
The desire to release features faster and deliver value to customers sooner is prompting many IT teams to adopt DevOps and Agile practices. By automating parts of the development process where possible and working in shorter cycles to release small changes more often, those teams that do well experience fewer errors and produce higher quality code. All of which is good news, until it comes to the database.
How to Monitor Redis with OpenTelemetry
We’re excited to announce that we’ve recently contributed Redis monitoring support to the OpenTelemetry collector. You can check it out here! You can utilize this receiver in conjunction with any OTel collector: including the contrib collector, the observIQ’s distribution of the collector, as well as Google’s Ops Agent, as a few examples.