# database monitoring

Published articles for database monitoring.

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## How Bits Database Optimization proves a query rewrite is faster

DevFeed: [How Bits Database Optimization proves a query rewrite is faster](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-bits-database-optimization-proves-a-query-rewrite-is-faster-2278.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/how-bits-database-optimization-proves-a-query-rewrite-is-faster/>)

Author: Alex Weisberger; Nenad Noveljić; Bowen Chen

Published: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [database monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database-monitoring.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [synthetic-data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/synthetic-data.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cpu.md>), [IO](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/io.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Statistics](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/statistics.md>)

Tags: [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [database-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-monitoring.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>), [statistics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/statistics.md>), [synthetic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/synthetic.md>), [synthetic-data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/synthetic-data.md>)

### AI overview

The article explains how Bits Database Optimization validates that a proposed query rewrite is faster. It describes controlled benchmarking with simulated production-like datasets, accounting for cache state, CPU and I/O contention, execution time, and database work.

### Source excerpt

Learn how Bits generates synthetic data, measures simulation fidelity, and uses execution time and database work to determine whether an optimization is truly faster.

## Datadog achieves GovRAMP High authorization

DevFeed: [Datadog achieves GovRAMP High authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/datadog-achieves-govramp-high-authorization-2254.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog-achieves-govramp-high-authorization/>)

Author: Rukshan Gunawardana; Sophie Wang; Jason Hansen

Published: 2026-06-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/resilience.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>), [ai observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-observability.md>)

Tags: [agent-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-observability.md>), [ai-observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-observability.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [database-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-monitoring.md>), [fedramp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fedramp.md>), [government](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/government.md>), [infrastructure-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-monitoring.md>), [log-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/log-management.md>), [logs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/logs.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [resilience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/resilience.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>)

### AI overview

Datadog announced GovRAMP High authorization for its government offering, extending its FedRAMP High certification and supporting state, local, tribal, territorial, and education organizations. The article explains how unified observability and security can consolidate monitoring data across applications, logs, networks, databases, infrastructure, and AI initiatives.

### Source excerpt

Datadog achieves GovRAMP High authorization, bringing unified observability and security to state and local government agencies for critical systems.

## Automatically optimize database queries with Datadog Database Monitoring

DevFeed: [Automatically optimize database queries with Datadog Database Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/automatically-optimize-database-queries-with-datadog-database-monitoring-2235.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/bits-database-optimization/>)

Author: Nenad Noveljić; Alex Weisberger; Eden Gorevoy; Jake Martin

Published: 2026-06-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Datadog | The Monitor blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/datadog-the-monitor-blog.md>)

Topics: [database monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database-monitoring.md>), [Optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/optimization.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Pull Request](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/pull-request.md>), [bits ai](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bits-ai.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/telemetry.md>)

Tags: [bits-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bits-ai.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [database-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-monitoring.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optimization.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [pull-request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pull-request.md>), [telemetry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/telemetry.md>)

### AI overview

Datadog Database Monitoring's Bits Database Optimization automatically identifies slow-query candidates, validates rewrites against a simulated copy of the schema, and opens pull requests with simulation evidence for the code that generated the query.

### Source excerpt

Learn how you can automatically detect, validate, and fix slow queries with Datadog Database Monitoring, closing the loop from optimization to deployment.

## Supabase Beta June 2023

DevFeed: [Supabase Beta June 2023](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/supabase-beta-june-2023-605.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-beta-update-june-2023>)

Author: Ant Wilson

Published: 2023-07-06T07:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Supabase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/supabase-blog.md>)

Topics: [Supabase](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/supabase.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>), [Chat Bot](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chatbot.md>), [Command-line interface](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cli.md>), [database monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database-monitoring.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mozilla.md>), [OpenAI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openai.md>), [Vue.js](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/vue.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [announcements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/announcements.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [cli](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cli.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [database-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-monitoring.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozilla.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>), [vue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vue.md>)

### AI overview

Supabase's June 2023 beta update highlights its partnership with Mozilla on AI Help, a developer-documentation chatbot powered by Supabase Vector and OpenAI. It also announces native Google and Apple authentication, CLI improvements for migrations, Functions, and database monitoring, billing updates, Kakao login, realtime debugging tools, storage changes, and new documentation and community projects.

### Source excerpt

A plethora of announcements... read till the end to find out when is the new Launch Week

## Finding and Reclaiming Unused PostgreSQL Index Space

DevFeed: [Finding and Reclaiming Unused PostgreSQL Index Space](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-unexpected-find-that-freed-20gb-of-unused-index-space-33927.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unused-index-size>)

Author: Haki Benita

Published: 2021-01-31T22:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Haki Benita](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/haki-benita.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [database monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database-monitoring.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>)

Tags: [articles](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/articles.md>), [database-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-monitoring.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [django](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/django.md>), [indexes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/indexes.md>), [orm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/orm.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [query](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/query.md>), [statistics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/statistics.md>), [storage](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/storage.md>)

### AI overview

The article explains how to identify potentially unused PostgreSQL indexes, assess whether they can safely be removed, and reset statistics counters before rechecking usage. It reports freeing more than 70GB of space overall, including about 20GB from unused indexed values, without dropping indexes or deleting data.

### Source excerpt

In this article I describe the process we took to identify potential free space, and one surprising find that helped up clear up ~10GB of unused indexed values!

## Realtime Database Monitoring with Stackdriver

DevFeed: [Realtime Database Monitoring with Stackdriver](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/realtime-database-monitoring-with-stackdriver-16245.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://firebase.blog/posts/2017/12/realtime-database-monitoring-with>)

Author: Tyler Rockwood

Published: 2017-12-21T00:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Firebase Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/firebase-blog.md>)

Topics: [database monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database-monitoring.md>), [Realtime Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/realtime-database.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monitoring.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/dashboards.md>)

Tags: [collection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collection.md>), [console](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/console.md>), [dashboards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dashboards.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [database-monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database-monitoring.md>), [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [firebase-console](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase-console.md>), [graph](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graph.md>), [graphs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/graphs.md>), [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [metric](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metric.md>), [metrics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/metrics.md>), [monitoring](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monitoring.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [realtime-database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/realtime-database.md>), [rest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest.md>), [ssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssl.md>), [stackdriver](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stackdriver.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

### AI overview

Firebase announces that Realtime Database integrates with Google Stackdriver, enabling exported metrics, threshold alerts, and metric graphs. The article explains how to create Stackdriver dashboards and charts, including operation-type breakdowns and additional database metrics.

### Source excerpt

News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team.