AI-Powered Expertise
Upskill your team with tailored recommendations for PostgreSQL tasks,
enabling them to confidently make expert-level decisions.
Crystal DBA puts PostgreSQL expertise at your team’s fingertips, ensuring databases are optimized, reliable, and high-performing—so they can focus on building and delivering value.
Crystal DBA watches over your databases continuously, alerting you to tuning needs and other issues. It allows you to move from firefighting to proactive management, which improves customer experience, reduces costs, and eliminates stress.
Key Benefits
For teams managing PostgreSQL databases without deep Postgres expertise, Crystal DBA delivers:
Upskill your team with tailored recommendations for PostgreSQL tasks,
enabling them to confidently make expert-level decisions.
Reduce manual effort and eliminate guesswork with continuous monitoring and AI-driven insights to solve performance bottlenecks.
Stay ahead of challenges with real-time alerts, periodic recommendations, and a clear view of database health and performance.
Crystal DBA helps startups stay focused on building. Its Postgres automation features let small teams run Postgres reliably without becoming expert DBAs. It's never been easier to create a database and start building on it."
Self-managing capabilities are essential to unlocking the benefits of Postgres databases. You need automation to eliminate complex database configuration, which otherwise undermines operational simplicity needed for optimal performance."
A stable database can be the difference between a team that’s thriving and making progress and one that’s stuck in a cycle of unproductive fire-fighting. Crystal DBA's take on Postgres shows how far we've come—It's a big leap forward for tech teams everywhere."
In our business, every transaction is key to delivering customer value. Crystal DBA's approach to automating operational excellence promises unprecedented reliability and simplicity."
Use Cases
Real-time insights, proactive solutions, and expert optimization for PostgreSQL.
Stay on top of your database with continuous visibility into health and performance.
Crystal DBA delivers everything you need to manage
PostgreSQL databases efficiently, securely, and at scale.
Get AI-driven recommendations to fine-tune query performance and indexes, reducing latency and boosting application speed.
Predict workloads and get tailored recommendations for storage and compute to scale confidently while optimizing costs.
Track queries, connections, and system metrics like CPU and memory in real-time to resolve issues instantly and drive long-term optimizations.
Crystal DBA automates tuning for over 300 PostgreSQL configuration settings to maximize efficiency and reliability.
Monitor, update, and optimize multiple PostgreSQL databases across your fleet from a single, centralized interface.
Protect sensitive data with read-only agents, encryption, and on-premises deployment options to meet enterprise standards.
FAQs
Find out more about Crystal DBA and what we do. Below you’ll find a list of answers to our most
frequently asked questions.
Crystal DBA is an AI teammate that helps you run PostgreSQL like an expert would, even if you are not a database expert. It analyzes your database and the application running on it, generating insights and recommendations for query tuning, system reliability, and system configuration.
Crystal DBA can provide insights on query tuning and indexing, database health and performance trends, resource utilization, database parameter tuning, capacity planning and scalability.
Crystal DBA integrates with your PostgreSQL environment in read-only mode to collect metrics and provide actionable recommendations. Your team can use its chat-based interface to ask questions like, “What indexes do I need to add?” or “How close am I to IOPS capacity?” and receive precise, AI-powered answers derived from your database’s workload.
The easiest way to start with Crystal DBA is to install the free command-line interface. You can use this to connect to your database much as you would using `psql` or other console tools. You need to install the collector agent to gain access to monitoring features, historical metrics, and team collaboration. For custom deployments we recommend using Kubernetes, but various forms are possible.
No, Crystal DBA can only read your database, and it cannot make changes. It can provide detailed guidance, but you must apply any changes following your organization’s change management procedures.
With the Team plan, Crystal DBA can join your Slack or Microsoft Teams workspace, where you can set up private or public channels to receive AI-initiated database reports. Your team can collaborate in group chats to discuss solutions or direct message Crystal DBA for one-on-one database expertise, making it easy to access real-time insights within your existing workflows.
Crystal DBA supports PostgreSQL versions 13 and later. In some situations, newer versions include features that enable deeper analysis and better recommendations.