Database Monitoring and Alerts
A database problem caught early is a minor task; the same problem caught when customers complain is an emergency. Monitoring watches the health of your database continuously and alerts the team before small issues become outages.
This article explains what we watch and why it matters to your service.
What We Keep an Eye On
- Disk space — a full disk can halt the database entirely.
- Connection counts approaching their limit.
- Slow or stuck queries building up.
- Replication lag on any read replicas.
- CPU and memory pressure.
Useful Alerts, Not Noise
Too many alerts and the important ones get ignored. We set thresholds that give enough warning to act calmly, and route genuinely urgent ones to whoever is on call.
From Reactive to Proactive
Trends over time let us spot a disk that will fill in a fortnight or a table that is outgrowing its design, so we can act on our own schedule rather than in a crisis.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do alerts wake people at night?
Only the truly urgent ones. We tune severity so non-critical issues wait for working hours.
If you need a hand with any of this, your Progressive Robot delivery team is ready to help. Raise a ticket from the Support area of your client portal or speak to your account manager and we will guide you through the next steps.