As more organizations move their databases to cloud-native environments, effectively managing and monitoring these systems becomes crucial. According to Coroot’s anonymous usage statistics, 64% of projects use PostgreSQL, making it the most popular RDBMS among our users, compared to 14% using MySQL. This is not surprising since it is also the most widely used open-source database worldwide.

There is a phenomenal amount of Observability tools on the market, coming in all shapes and sizes, offering many tools and approaches to solve what seems to be an endless number of problems. It also can be overwhelming to use, hard to set up and expensive to run, especially if you are going with SaaS based market leaders like DataDog.

When you build software, its terminology, concepts and relationship between them is quite obvious to you, when you’re starting to use software built by someone else – might not be so much so. In this blog post I tried to cover most important Coroot concepts and terminology – reading it will hopefully help you to understand Coroot much better if you’re just starting up with it.