As we approach Christmas 2025, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve achieved with DBmarlin this year. From significant growth to innovative features and exciting partnerships, 2025 has been transformative. In this post, we’ll explore the new product features we’ve introduced and the valuable partnerships we’ve formed to enhance the DBmarlin experience.

Some of the new features we added in 2025

Throughout the year, we have introduced several new product features to empower you in monitoring and managing your database environments. Here are just some of the highlights.

• We now support running a remote agent on Windows (as well as Linux and Kubernetes), with a native Windows installer.
• SQL metrics now have automatic baselining and anomaly detection.
• Alerts can now be sent to a Webhook.
• DBmarlin Co-pilot now supports many more providers and models including the very latest Google Gemini Pro 3 and OpenAI GPT 5.1 as well as models running in Microsoft Azure.
• SQL Server customers can now see the history of SQL Agent Jobs.
• New Object Browser screen provides insights into tables and indexes.
• Time-range Nudge Back/Forward across all screens.
• Live Auto-Refresh across all screens.
• Full support for high availability (HA) for the DBmarlin platform.
• New DB Versions screen showing the versions of databases you are monitoring, their end of support and end of life dates, and the latest patch or cumulative update.
• Many infrastructure updates, such as support for SSL in the DBmarlin Nginx server, support-files scripts, and multiple improvements to the upgrade process.
• New Dashboard screen which lets you visualise your database estate in powerful new ways.
• New Tag Settings screen for setting tags across your instances and new Agent Settings screen for managing remote agents.
• Database Statistics screen improvements – choose which charts you would like to see and switch from single column to 2-column or 3-column layouts.
• New Recommendations screen. This new screen provides users with personalised suggestions about DBmarlin itself and the instances which are being monitored.
• New database Parameter screen and Parameter Comparison Report.

Valuable partnership and collaboration – IBM

Since June this year, you have been able to purchase DBmarlin through IBM Passport Advantage under offering ID 5900-BS3. This simplifies the licensing and ordering process for IBM clients already using Instana Observability. The collaboration with IBM this year has reached new levels, with more joint customers, more events, and more product links. Stay tuned for more coming in the new year.

Looking back on this year, we’re proud of what we’ve achieved with DBmarlin. New product features and valuable partnerships have driven our growth and success. We’re grateful to our customers, partners, and the entire DBmarlin community for their support and trust. We look forward to another year of innovation and collaboration, empowering you to monitor and manage your database environments.

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Merry Christmas 🎄

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the DBmarlin team!