Redis is a simple – but very well optimized – key-value open source database that is widely used in cloud-native applications. In this article, you will learn how to monitor Redis with Prometheus, and the most important metrics you should be looking at. Despite its simplicity, Redis has become a key component of many Kubernetes and cloud applications. As a result, performance issues or problems with its resources can cause other components of the application to fail.

I am currently trialing pgmetrics and pgDash for monitoring PostgreSQL databases. Here are my notes on it. pgmetrics is a command-line tool you point at a PostgreSQL cluster and it spits out statistics and diagnostics in a text or JSON format. It is a standalone binary written in Go, and it is open source. Here is a sample pgmetrics report. Rapidloop, the company that develops pgmetrics, also runs pgDash – a web service that collects reports generated by pgmetrics and displays them in a web UI.

Introducing HighPerf, our highly scalable raw storage database that facilitates smarter analytics, faster troubleshooting, and better bandwidth management.

Far too often, organizations look at monitoring solutions as "nice to have", or better put, as luxury items that make the lives of IT administrators easier, but come at a cost. This series will look at ways that organizations have saved money off of their IT budgets, by bringing Foglight into their environment. The first post in this multi-part series will focus on consolidating an organizations cross platform database monitoring under a single solution: Foglight for Databases.