Honest head-to-head comparisons

Same query-digest data model. More databases in one pane.

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.

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.

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.

Performance Insights is a great free tool for RDS-only shops. Obsfly is what you need the moment your fleet adds GCP, Azure, on-prem, or any non-RDS database — same UI, same alerts, every cloud.

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.

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.

We respect pganalyze. It's the gold standard for Postgres-only shops.

Performance Advisor is a great free feature of Atlas. Obsfly is what you need the moment you run self-hosted Mongo, Amazon DocumentDB, or any other database — same Mongo coverage, eight more DBs in the same UI.

Redgate is the gold standard for SQL Server shops, especially in UK enterprise. Obsfly matches its DMV + Query Store depth and adds every other database in the same UI — without the per-server pricing math.