Mick McGuinness
Mick McGuinness DBmarlin Co-founder & Product Manager

DBmarlin 3.11.0 adds instance tagging

DBmarlin 3.11.0 adds instance tagging

We are pleased to announce version 3.11 of DBmarlin where we have added instance tagging, sortable blocking sessions and more.

Instance tagging

Tags or labels have become common these days especially in cloud computing. In essence, tags or labels provide a flexible, simple way to organise and manage cloud resources, making them a fundamental aspect of cloud computing operations and strategy.

With DBmarlin v3.11 you are now able to apply as many tags as you like to your instances. Tags consist of a name and a value. Useful tag names could be things such as the environment, service, application, customer, owner, region, version, availability-zone, data-centre, business-unit.

These can be added under the instance settings.

Setting tags for an instance can be done through the settings screen which you can access via the cog icon in the top right.

Setting tags for an instance can be done through the settings screen which you can access via the cog icon in the top right.

In the instances summary screen you can see in the lower table, a cog icon where you can turn on which tags you would like visible in the table. You can also use the search box to search on tag values within the table (note that this works whether the tags are visible or not).

You can see the tag values in the instance summary screen as columns in the table like this.

In the instances summary screen you can see in the lower table, a cog icon where you can turn on which tags you would like visible in the table.

Tags are displayed at the top of the screen when looking at an individual instance. In the example below you can see the oracle-rds instance has been tagged with Environment: Production, Cluster: 123 and App: Taxi booking

Tags are displayed at the top of the screen when looking at an individual instance. In the example below you can see the oracle-rds instance has been tagged with `Environment: Production`, `Cluster: 123` and `App: Taxi booking`

Tags are displayed at the top of the screen when looking at an individual instance.`

Watch a short video of how to use tags within DBmarlin.

Blocking session improvements

The columns are now sortable. The default sort order is by blocking time descending so the most expensive blocking tree is at the top of the list, but you can choose to sort on any of the columns.

Sortable blocking sessions

Prometheus endpoint for DBmarlin sensor health

If you need to monitor your DBmarlin sensors to make sure they are healthy and collecting data, you can now use our prometheus endpoint to do this. Just copy the prometheus.war file from /extras to /tomcat/webapps and then point Prometheus to scrape from the /metrics endpoint on the DBmarlin server.

Upgrade button and new pricing page

For those on the 1 free Starter license you will now see an upgrade button linking to a new pricing calculator. This lets you see the price and get a quote for more licenses whenever you are ready. The calculator takes into account volume and multi-year discounts. For more than 25 licenses please use the form and we can provide a custom quote for however many you need.

Other fixes and improvements

For a longer list of fixes and improvements see the release notes.

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