The DBmarlin Story
In 2020 we launched DBmarlin. This is our journey, which started back in 1998.
2026: Further innovation and platform support
2026 has already seen new platforms such as MongoDB and Snowflake. Stay tuned for more.
2025: Continued growth and innovation
2025 saw the addition of many new features like baselining and anomaly detection, alerting to WebHooks, Co-pilot support for the latest AI models, Object browser and analysis, Recommendations screen, DB parameter comparison and more. It also saw a new IBM partnership with IBM customers now able to buy DBmarlin via IBM Passport Advantage.
See our review of 20252024: Continued growth and innovation
2024 saw the addition of support for new platforms such as Informix, SAP HANA and SAP ASE (Sybase) and AWS CloudWatch metrics for Amazon RDS. We added Transaction Contention for CockroachDB, integrations with Splunk Observability and ServiceNow and, of course, our AI Copilot for tuning recommendations.
See our review of 20242023: Continued growth and innovation
2023 saw the addition of features like Blocking Sessions, Deadlocks, Instance Tagging, Remote agents, SQL Search, third-party links and many more. We enhanced our Instana and New Relic integrations and added alerting to Slack and PagerDuty.
See our review of 20232022: Continued growth and innovation
2022 saw the addition of features like Alerting, Saved Snapshots, SQL Stats reporting, New Relic integration and many more. We increased the number of databases monitored by 7x and we added our community, site, feedback site and surpassed 1100 Knowledge-base articles.
See our review of 20222021: Continued growth and innovation
We continued to add new functionality every month for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL as well as host monitoring for Linux and Windows. In May we added support for CockroachDB, a new generation distributed SQL database which is gaining popularity. In addition, we added support for IBM Db2 in November.
See our review of 20212020: DBmarlin launch
The database monitoring space had become overcrowded, but most offerings were bloated and over-complicated. We wanted to return to the simplicity of "three clicks to the root cause". DBmarlin is a user-friendly, cost-effective, deep-dive database performance monitoring solution to help application teams solve problems quickly.
2013: DBTuna bought by AppDynamics
AppDynamics was seeking a deep-dive database monitoring solution to bolster their APM solution. DBTuna fitted the bill nicely. Over the years, it has been upgraded and incorporated into their own solution as Database Visibility, although the original standalone versions are still supported.
2010: Launched DBTuna
Too many database monitoring products focused on statistics and infrastructure at the time. We knew that looking at the individual SQL queries was key to understanding why they ran slowly and, in turn, why their applications ran slowly. We set out to produce a new database monitoring solution that brought SQL to the front.
2004: AP Founded
We founded AP out of the realisation that joined-up APM was essential in understanding how to identify and solve performance issues. The message in our vision, that everyone deserves fast and reliable applications that deliver great user experiences, is as true today as it was back then.
1998: Precise/SQL
Our three co-founders came together in 1998 while working at Precise Software, where they started their journey in database monitoring, which then went on to become the first true end-to-end APM solution.
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