Datadog Database Monitoring can surface enormous detail — and bill for it. The skill is choosing the few signals that answer real cost and reliability questions, and not paying to collect noise nobody acts on.
A practitioner walkthrough of the review method: what to look at, in what order, how to quantify an opportunity honestly, and how to turn findings into a prioritized 30/60/90-day plan.
Table and index bloat and unused indexes are well-known Postgres problems — and direct cloud-cost problems: wasted storage, write amplification, and extra I/O. How to measure both with read-only queries and remediate safely.