Eliminate the Database War Room with New Relic Database 360

Why is your query slow? Know instantly with full-stack database observability.

We are excited to announce the general availability of New Relic Database 360, which unifies APM transactions, relational database queries, and host-level infrastructure metrics to accelerate root cause analysis.

Database 360 provides Dev, SRE, and DB teams:

• Faster, Less Contentious RCA: Natively connect APM transactions directly to database queries.By providing a single source of truth for execution plans, performance metrics, and wait states through intuitive visualizations, Dev, SRE, and DB teams can eliminate cross-team friction and resolve issues faster.
• OpenTelemetry-First Flexibility: Use standard OpenTelemetry data collection using either CNCF libraries or New Relic’s NRDOT to eliminate proprietary agent lock-in and unify your observability stack.
• Performance Protection & Transparent Pricing: Eliminate performance degradation from noisy-neighbor databases and offending client applications while keeping costs controllable with transparent and predictable ingest-based pricing.

Unified Database Observability

Database 360 is a comprehensive observability solution that models databases as first-class entities connected directly to your APM services and infrastructure. Built on a flexible, OpenTelemetry-first foundation, it provides the curated workflows you need to solve complex performance issues instantly.

By uniting applications, databases, and infrastructure in a single, opinionated view, Database 360 allows you to instantly pinpoint the root cause of database bottlenecks and finally eliminate finger-pointing.

Overcoming Siloed Visibility and Vendor Lock-in

Database monitoring has historically been disjointed. Organizations often pay a premium for legacy point solutions just to monitor database health, while using entirely separate tools for APM. When an issue occurs, there is no native correlation between a slow application trace and the specific database wait event or lock causing it.

To make a challenging situation worse, proprietary monitoring agents frequently lock you into restrictive billing models that penalize you for collecting the high-cardinality metrics (like detailed execution plans) needed to truly understand database performance.

Accelerate Root Cause Analysis, Adopt OpenTelemetry, and Consolidate Tools

New Relic released Database 360 to break down these silos and return control to engineering teams.

1. Faster, Less Contentious Root Cause Analysis

Database 360 natively links database entities to APM services (currently supporting Java and .NET). Dev, SRE, and DB teams can now view query details, visual execution plans, wait states, locks, and infrastructure metrics in full context. When a bottleneck occurs, you can clearly see whether the issue originates in the application code, the query structure, or the underlying host.

2. OpenTelemetry First: No Vendor Lock-in

Database 360 utilizes standard OpenTelemetry data collection for major relational database engines via the New Relic OTel collector (NRDOT) or CNCF OTel public contrib repos. You maintain full control over your telemetry and avoid the rigid lock-in associated with proprietary agents.

3. Consolidate Your Observability Stack

Why pay for overlapping licenses and maintain separate monitoring silos? Database 360 empowers you to replace disparate, specialized point-tools with a single, comprehensive platform. Unite your DBAs and developers under one pane of glass, priced predictably based on data ingest without arbitrary compute licenses or custom metric penalties.

4. Prevent "Noisy Neighbors" and Optimize Capacity

Database 360 detects long-running sessions, blocking queries, and resource-heavy workloads early, preventing a single runaway query from monopolizing the database node. Right-size your infrastructure and manage costs effectively with a huge variety of metrics to help identify oversized or underused managed database instances (like massive, under-utilized AWS RDS deployments).

5. Know “Who” is Doing “What”

Database 360 ties into Applications firing queries and has unique ways to classify incoming queries. You get to know the behaviour of each connected client or application and get to know their activities on the database.

Massive Upgrades Across Major Database Engines

Database 360 introduces entirely new capabilities and significant enhancements compared to previous database plugins:

• MySQL (8.0.3+) & PostgreSQL (14+): We are introducing completely new OpenTelemetry (NRDOT) integrations for these engines, bringing first-class DB entities, query plans, and wait/lock states directly linked to APM.
• Oracle (19c+) & MS SQL (2017+): We are delivering major upgrades from our previous plugins, offering deep OTel metric collection, explain plan correlations, granular session tracking, and curated RCA workflows.

Get Started Today

It's time to stop treating your databases as black boxes and start monitoring your entire stack in context. To see how easy it is to pinpoint database bottlenecks, optimize your infrastructure, and unite your engineering teams, explore New Relic Database 360 today:

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