Monitoring is an investment in time as well as money - but is it worth it? Setting up your monitoring effectively will give rewards and enable you to keep pace with your competition. Picking a toolset that allows you to identify issues and focus on the root cause of your problems will put you ahead!

Let’s explore why you need a great monitoring tool!

1. Improved User Experience: Monitoring your database performance gives you all the information you need to keep your database responding quickly which ensures that your users have a smooth and efficient experience when interacting with your app or website. Slow load times and errors can lead to frustration and lost customers.

2. Preventing Outages: By closely monitoring your database, you can identify and fix potential issues before they lead to costly outages. This can save your business from lost revenue and damage to your reputation.

3. Optimising Resources: Properly monitoring your database performance allows you to identify and eliminate inefficiencies, such as unnecessary queries or poor indexing. This can help you optimise your use of resources, such as memory and CPU, which can lead to cost savings and helping save the planet!

4. Better Business Decisions: Having a clear picture of your database performance can help you make more informed decisions about scaling, resource allocation, and other important business decisions. This can help you stay competitive and grow your business.

5. Long-term Data Retention: Monitoring your database’s performance can provide insights on the ongoing health of the database, allowing you to identify potential performance issues related to data growth before they become critical. This can enable long-term data retention with reduced risk of performance degradation.

In summary, monitoring your database gives clear wins in terms of reliability, flexibility and longevity of your business investment. This applies whether you operate on-prem, in the cloud or as is becoming the norm these days, in a hybrid landscape.

Ready to try DBmarlin?

If you would like to find out more about DBmarlin and why we think it is special, try one of the links below.

• Get hands-on without an installation at play.dbmarlin.com
• Download DBmarlin from www.dbmarlin.com, with one FREE standard edition license, which is free forever for 1 target database.
• Join our new community at https://community.dbmarlin.com/invitation?code=74020A