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# Understand, diagnose, and optimize SQL queries: Introducing Grafana Cloud Database Observability

**[Grafana Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/grafana)** · 7 min read · 51 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Grafana Cloud Database Observability is now in public preview, offering developers, SREs, and DBAs tools to understand, diagnose, and optimize SQL queries. The solution addresses the visibility gap in database performance by providing query-level insights, execution plans, wait event analysis, and AI-powered optimization suggestions. It supports MySQL and PostgreSQL, integrates with Grafana Alloy for telemetry collection, and correlates database metrics with application and infrastructure data for comprehensive system-wide performance analysis.

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