Database Monitoring and Observability

Know what every database is doing, without a second console.

Infrastructure metrics on every database from day one, database-level performance insights when you need them, and native integrations into the monitoring and security tools your teams already run.

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100% observability across all workloads

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Real-time visibility across 500+ databases

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Connected to their existing monitoring stack

Database monitoring is scattered, shallow, and set up one database at a time.

Seeing that a database is busy is easy. Seeing which query, which wait, and which user is behind it, across the whole estate, is where the visibility gap lives.
Health lives in many tools.

Health lives in many tools.

CPU, memory, IOPS, and query load each sit behind a different screen. Building a picture of one database means checking several places, and building a picture of the estate means checking all of them.
The numbers say load is high, not why.

The numbers say load is high, not why.

Utilization graphs show that a database is busy. They rarely show which SQL, which wait event, or which user is driving it, and that answer usually needs separate, specialist tooling.
Monitoring is set up one VM at a time.

Monitoring is set up one VM at a time.

Third-party agents are installed and configured per database by hand, so observability becomes its own project instead of something every database has from the start.
What Tessell gives you

Two layers of visibility, connected to the tools you already run.

Infrastructure health on every database from the moment it is provisioned, database-level insight when you need to go deeper, and native hooks into your existing stack. Here is what that looks like in practice.

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Infrastructure health, built into every database.

CPUload averagememoryswapnetworkFilesystemthroughput IOPS per diskTop processes by CPU and memory10-min refresh, 5-min zoomOracleSQL ServerPostgreSQLMySQL

Every database service exposes its own OS and infrastructure metrics from the moment it is provisioned, with no agent to install. CPU, system load average, memory, swap, network, filesystem usage, disk throughput, and IOPS, plus the top processes by CPU and memory, all on the service page. Metrics refresh every 10 minutes, with 5-minute granularity when you zoom in.

Fortune 250 transportation company
Real-time visibility into performance, compliance, and utilization across more than 500 databases.
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See what is driving database load, not just that it is high.

Average Active Sessionssampled per second Top waitsSQLshostsusersdatabases 1h, 3h, 6h, 12h, 24h, and custom range 5-minute detailed viewSQL masked and grouped by type

Performance Insights breaks load down to Average Active Sessions, sampled every second, so you can see how many sessions are active and what they are waiting on. Drill into the top waits, SQL statements, hosts, users, and databases behind the load across a 1-hour to 24-hour window, or a custom range, down to 5-minute detail. Enabled at provisioning or any time after.

Leading healthcare data platform
100% observability across all workloads, a non-negotiable requirement for a HIPAA-regulated estate, met from day one.
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Plugs into the stack you already run.

Bring-your-own-account integrations DatadogSplunkNew RelicSumo LogicOracle OEMQualysSlack and email alertingDB and OS metric alert scopes

Tessell connects to the monitoring and security tools your teams already operate rather than asking them to adopt a new one. Bring your own account for Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Sumo Logic, Oracle Enterprise Manager, and Qualys, enabled per service, with alerting routed to Slack or email. Because the same framework carries vulnerability scanning and log management, it also supports your Security and Compliance posture.

Global financial services group
Enterprise security and monitoring stack connected to Tessell-managed databases through the integration framework.
Operational Lifecycle Management

Monitoring is one part of the database lifecycle.

A database has to be provisioned, kept current, watched, and kept running when something goes wrong. Tessell manages the full operational lifecycle from one platform.

Provisioning

Every database, provisioned to the same standard, in minutes.

Monitoring is configured here, so visibility is in place before the database serves its first query.

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Lifecycle Management Center

Keep every database current.

See the impact of a patch, upgrade, or resize in real time, on the same metrics.

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Business Continuity

Keep it running when something goes wrong.

Watch replica health and replication state alongside primary metrics.

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See the observability layer in your own environment.

Walk through the infrastructure metrics, Performance Insights, and your integrations with a Tessell engineer, using your engines, your cloud, and the monitoring tools you already run.

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Frequently Asked
Questions
Every database service reports its own OS and infrastructure metrics from the moment it is provisioned, with no agent to install: CPU, system load average, memory, swap, network, filesystem usage, disk throughput, IOPS, and the top processes by CPU and memory. These refresh every 10 minutes, with 5-minute granularity when you zoom in. Alert policies are auto-selected at provisioning based on your subscription.
Performance Insights is the deeper, database-level layer and is enabled per service, either at provisioning or later from the Settings tab, once the monitoring infrastructure is deployed. Infrastructure metrics are always on; Performance Insights is a toggle when you need query-level depth.
It measures database load as Average Active Sessions, sampled every second, then breaks that load down by the top waits, SQL statements, hosts, users, and databases contributing to it. You can view any window from 1 hour to 24 hours, or a custom range, down to 5-minute detail. SQL statements are masked and grouped by type.
Datadog covers Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL. Splunk covers Oracle and SQL Server. New Relic covers PostgreSQL, Sumo Logic covers MySQL, Oracle Enterprise Manager covers Oracle including Exadata, and Qualys covers Oracle and SQL Server. All use a bring-your-own-account model and are enabled per service.
It complements them. The built-in infrastructure metrics and Performance Insights give you visibility on day one, and the integrations feed the same data into the monitoring, security, and analytics tools your teams already operate, so nothing has to be ripped out.
Alert policies cover two scopes, database metrics and OS metrics for the compute nodes, each with severity levels and configurable annotations. Alerts route to Slack or email through notification profiles, and policies are auto-selected at provisioning based on your subscription.
Infrastructure metrics refresh every 10 minutes, with 5-minute granularity available when you zoom into a chart. Performance Insights samples Average Active Sessions every second and offers a 5-minute detailed view across the selected window.
Yes. Vulnerability scanning through Qualys and log management through Splunk connect via the same integration framework, so the data feeding your security tooling comes from the same place you monitor performance. Because Tessell-managed databases run inside your own cloud account, that visibility supports the posture described on the Security and Compliance page.