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Honest head-to-head comparisons
We took every DBM and observability tool teams actually shortlist against Obsfly and wrote one comparison per tool — pricing, deployment, depth per database, and what each tool is genuinely good at. No trash-talk. Pick a tool you’re evaluating.
Database monitoring · 2
Obsfly vs Datadog DBM
Same query-digest data model. More databases in one pane.
Read comparison →Obsfly vs SolarWinds DPA
Wait-event analysis is what made DPA legendary. Obsfly ships the same surface — at 1Hz instead of 10s, with forecast bands on every wait class, and a UI that loads under a second on modern hardware.
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APM + DB · 2
Obsfly vs New Relic
New Relic is excellent APM with database visibility bolted on. Obsfly is the inverse — purpose-built for databases, with predictable per-DB pricing and the surfaces operators actually use.
Read comparison →Obsfly vs AppDynamics
AppD is enterprise APM with database visibility attached. Obsfly is purpose-built DBM — at a fraction of the procurement overhead and with the modern features (forecasting, AI rewrite) AppD lacks.
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Cloud-native · 1
Open source / build-it-yourself · 2
Obsfly vs Percona PMM
PMM is honest open source and we respect it. But running PMM at fleet scale means a Grafana you tune, exporters you tune, and a Postgres-cluster-for-monitoring you tune.
Read comparison →Obsfly vs Grafana
Grafana + Prometheus + postgres_exporter ships a starter dashboard in a weekend. Then the team asks: which query? which plan? why now? Obsfly is the DBM layer Grafana was never going to be — query-aware, plan-aware, anomaly-aware, and you can keep your existing Grafana for everything else.
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Postgres-specialised · 1
MongoDB-specialised · 1
SQL Server-specialised · 1
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