Watch
Continually monitors conditions. The agent wakes on a scheduled check-in at an adaptive cadence, or a monitor-triggered alert.
It sees what no team can
Cluster vitals, workload texture, query behavior. Aegis connects the signals no team can watch alone and turns them into decisions you approve.
The estate outgrew the platform team.
Your team can no longer watch everything. Monitoring, incident detection and day-to-day ops fill the week, leaving no room for platform strategy, while agents are shipping faster than anyone can keep up with by hand.
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Always watching but never acts alone
Aegis works like a senior database architect that never sleeps. It can:
- Recommend missing indexes as ready-to-run DDL
- Identify unused indexes taxing writes, and confirm they are actually unused
- Correlate latency spikes with their drivers, and establish which came first
- Expose full table scans hiding inside high-traffic queries
Not alerts. Diagnoses.
Aegis catches the things that take expertise or time most teams don't have, publishing what it observed, why it diverged, and the exact steps to remedy:
- Unused indexes adding write overhead to every transaction
- Stale statistics producing query plans that no longer match the data
- Contention building before it reaches critical thresholds that pages anyone
A continuous loop keeping your cluster healthy.
Observe
Gathers the current cluster state, topology, and workload signals for a current view.
Identify
Spots what diverged from the learned baseline to continuously give up-to-date, high-quality recommendations.
Diagnose
Traces the root cause through the query plan, schema, and cluster configuration.
Recommend
Produces operator artifacts and actionable remediation steps with full supporting evidence.
Built for the people who know what database operations really cost
Insights on steroids — that was my first reaction. We can be a bit lazy when it comes to fixing unused-index warnings or optimizing schemas unless performance is degrading. But Aegis is proactive at identifying and flagging potential problems before they escalate. On the flip side, Aegis is also reactive and this is where it really clicked for me. During an incident, being able to ask the agent what's going on and have it act like a DBA reading the detailed metrics is so valuable. It will reduce the need to page an SRE or open up a support ticket.
Michael Oakley, Staff Engineer, Primer
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