Insights learns how each of your databases normally behaves and tells you the moment one starts to drift: a query slower than its own history, an unusual workload, a wasteful access pattern. You hear about it before your users do.
Insights works on the statistics the agent already sends. Nothing extra runs on your databases.
Insights knows what a normal Monday morning looks like for each database. When the mix of reads, writes, connections and transactions moves away from its usual shape, you see it while it is still unusual, not after it becomes an outage.
Every query is compared with its own history at the same time of day, so a nightly batch is not news and a real slowdown is. Only changes that cost real database time are reported.
The same small query fired again and again, one row at a time, usually means a loop in the application that should be one batched query. Insights points to the query, so the fix lands in the right place.
Every finding opens the same way, so a DBA on call at 3 a.m. knows where to look. Severity and confidence are separate: severity is how big the change is, confidence is how much history stands behind the comparison.
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orders · pg-prod-01 · High confidence · 12× · 8 min ago
Data growthRows read per call doubled against the baseline.
A detector that fires on every wobble trains people to ignore it. These guards exist because each of them removed a class of findings nobody acted on.
Further reading: How we stopped one anomaly finding from firing hundreds of times
Comparisons follow the rhythm of your day, so the morning peak is not a regression every morning.
A change is reported once, when it starts, not again every day after.
Changes too small to cost anything are ignored, so every finding is worth a look.
Routine traffic from monitoring tools and schedulers is recognised and left out.
When a database's statistics are reset, Insights notices and stays quiet instead of raising false alarms.
When there is not enough history yet, the safeguards step aside. A finding is never hidden because of it.
Insights learns from each database's own history and gets sharper every day. Start a trial and see what it finds on yours.
