Database Performance issues manifest in a variety of ways—from slow loading pages to timeouts to excessive memory usage to full-on outages. Often, Performance Monitoring tools detect problems early and alert the DBA. But sometimes a user has to notify you of an issue, and that’s never ideal.

If you notice an increase in performance problems making it past your Monitoring system and negatively affecting users before you even know there’s an issue, it’s time to take a close look at the quality of your performance monitoring setup.