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Stop Thinking About Your Databases And Leave Them To Metis

As DevOps Engineers, we work hard to keep our systems running smoothly. We monitor, analyze metrics and logs, and respond to alerts - doing everything we can to prevent disruptions, especially in databases that are vital to our applications. But imagine if maintenance wasn’t necessary at all. What if there were tools to manage your databases for you, allowing you to forget they’re even there? Read on to discover how this can be a reality.
Published on
November 6, 2024
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Adam Furmanek
Dev Rel
Metis Team
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As DevOps Engineers, managing databases is a necessary part of our role. We handle performance issues, optimize indexes, and complete routine maintenance, all of which consume time and impact our workflow - from code review to CI/CD pipelines and deployments.

What if there were a way to simplify our lives with continuous database reliability? Imagine knowing immediately if something goes wrong with our databases without needing to check constantly, or better yet, having issues resolved automatically. We’d be free from the worry of on-call duties, maintenance tasks, or scaling concerns, supported by tools that keep databases running smoothly in the background.

Most tools today fall short in this area, overwhelming us with infrastructure metrics, manual alerts, and dashboards that flash green and red without offering actionable insights. What we need are tools that detect anomalies, adjust alarms intelligently, recognize patterns, understand database-specific metrics, and fix problems automatically. Ideally, we’d only be notified of issues that require manual intervention. Databases should function seamlessly, with most problems anticipated and resolved by the tools themselves.

Metis makes this possible. It’s a solution designed to handle database-focused signals, detect anomalies, identify patterns, optimize configurations, and notify us only when action is genuinely needed. Discover how Metis can transform your approach to database management in the following sections

Metis Knows Databases

Metis has a deep understanding of how your database operates. It monitors metrics around transactions, caching, index usage, extensions, and buffers - everything that impacts database performance.

With detailed insights into database events like rollbacks, disk spills, and unused indexes, Metis goes beyond general infrastructure metrics, sparing you from vague indicators like CPU spikes that lack context.

Metis continuously analyzes queries, spotting anomalies, tracking behavior over time, identifying performance bottlenecks, and suggesting real-time improvements.

Through actionable insights, Metis helps you configure indexes and optimize queries for maximum speed.

Metis doesn’t just monitor metrics and queries; it understands every aspect of your database, from indexes to configurations, extensions, and schema.

Guiding you through tuning your database, Metis can even automate these adjustments with just your approval.

For issues requiring attention, Metis integrates with your platforms, offering clear guidance on resolution. Alerts are automatically tuned as Metis identifies anomalies and critical breaks.

With Metis, you can rest easy, knowing that your database is managed proactively and that you’ll be notified only when necessary.

Metis also analyzes your database schema, helping you optimize application performance.

Covering the entire software development lifecycle, Metis is with you from initial implementation to production deployment.

Stop Thinking About Your Databases!

DevOps Engineers encounter numerous challenges, especially when it comes to database management, and current tools lack true database intelligence and actionable insights. Metis changes this by supporting you through every stage of the software development lifecycle. It reviews your updates, suggests optimizations, and even resolves issues automatically. With Metis, you can forget about database worries and rest easy, confident that everything is under control.

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