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What database integrations provide

Metrics, dashboards, and alerts for your database

Database integrations use Grafana Alloy to collect infrastructure-level metrics from your database and send them to Grafana Cloud. Each integration ships with pre-built dashboards and alerts so you can start monitoring immediately.

Database ObservabilityIntegrations
Query-level performance (which queries are slow)Infrastructure-level metrics (connections, memory, replication)
MySQL and PostgreSQL onlyMongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database
Explain plans, wait events, query samplesPre-built dashboards and alerting rules
Deep visibility into fewer databasesBroad coverage across many databases

How integrations work

Every database integration follows the same pattern:

  1. Install Grafana Alloy on a host that can reach your database
  2. Configure the exporter — Alloy includes a built-in exporter for each database technology
  3. Install dashboards and alerts — One click from the Connections page in Grafana Cloud

Alloy scrapes metrics from the database exporter and forwards them to Grafana Cloud via Prometheus remote write. Some integrations also collect logs via Loki.

What’s included

IntegrationAlertsDashboardsLogs
MongoDB103—
Redis61—
Memcached41—
Apache Cassandra83✓
MySQL152✓
PostgreSQL194✓
Oracle Database31✓

When to use integrations

  • Your database isn’t supported by Database Observability (MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, Cassandra, Oracle)
  • You need infrastructure-level metrics and alerts without query-level detail
  • You want a quick setup with pre-built dashboards — most integrations take 15–20 minutes

Script

Database integrations sit at the infrastructure level. They use Grafana Alloy to collect metrics like connections, memory usage, replication status, and throughput, then send them to Grafana Cloud. Each integration includes pre-built dashboards and alerting rules, so there’s no need to build anything from scratch.

The key difference from Database Observability is depth versus breadth. Database Observability shows which specific queries are slow and why. Integrations show how the database is performing overall, across a much wider range of technologies.

Every integration follows the same three-step setup. Install Grafana Alloy, configure the exporter for the database, and install the dashboards and alerts from the Connections page. Most integrations take about 15 to 20 minutes to set up.

The table on this slide shows what ships with each integration. PostgreSQL has the richest set with 19 alerts and 4 dashboards. Cassandra, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Database also support log collection alongside metrics.

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