Observability
Everything we have written on this subject, newest first.
Database Observability vs Monitoring
Your database monitoring dashboard says everything is green. Your users are reporting errors. Both things are true at the same time, and the gap between them is where incidents live.
Read moreIncident Investigation
A sample incident investigation report, as produced by Sixta — the evidence, the root cause and the recommended fix, set out as an engineer would hand them over.
Read moreWhy do we still trust metrics that lie to us?
Teams celebrate 99% cache hit ratios while their databases burn. The metric looks perfect, but the queries are reading 50x more data than needed. A problem first described in 2004 that we still haven't solved.
Read moreObservability and the Art of Managing Our Ignorance
We can't monitor what we don't know to look for. A long-form piece on why observability needs to move beyond dashboards toward systems that surface what you didn't think to ask.
Read moreThe gap between troubleshooting data and strategic intelligence
As database estates grow more complex, teams cobble together CloudWatch, observability tools, and CUR data — generating data without increasing visibility. Why the next layer of database intelligence needs to work differently.
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