Managed DBA services · database reliability engineering
Extend your engineering team with database specialists for ongoing monitoring, performance, backups, upgrades, and incident response across MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and other production engines.
The first 30-minute call covers your production estate, current ownership, and required coverage. No production access is needed. Prefer evidence first? Request a free database audit.
MySQL
8.0 · InnoDB
1.82k
queries/sec
PostgreSQL
16 · streaming repl
18ms
p99 latency
MongoDB
7.0 · 3-node RS
940
ops/sec
Valkey
8 · cluster
99.4%
cache hit rate
SQL Server
2022 · Always On AG
14.2k
instance IOPS
Sample Query Throughput
12.40k QPS[OK] pg_repl: replica synchronized (lag 0ms)
[OK] valkey: 99.4% hit rate — 0 evictions
[INF] mysql: buffer pool resized → 24G
[OK] mongo: shard balancer idle, chunks even
Interactive demonstration using sample data · not live customer telemetry
Who this is for
Your engineers run the application and infrastructure. Database maintenance and incidents need a dedicated owner.
Your DBA keeps the context. Add capacity for planned work, specialist reviews, and agreed on-call coverage.
New workloads bring performance, recovery, and capacity questions. Build database operations into your growth plans.
Ongoing managed DBA services
JusDB works alongside your engineering team and takes responsibility for the database operations included in your plan. You keep business and production control; both teams know who monitors, responds, approves, changes, and reports.
Shared
Production context
Cross-trained engineers and documented handoffs reduce reliance on one person's availability.
Proactive
Database operations
Monitoring, maintenance, capacity, performance, and recovery work are planned around the agreed scope.
By plan
Incident coverage
Coverage hours, severities, acknowledgement targets, and escalation paths are selected for your needs.
Written
Responsibilities
The service agreement defines ownership, approvals, exclusions, reporting, and reliability commitments.
How an engagement starts
Review the production estate, database owners, recurring workload, coverage gaps, and business priorities.
Define responsibilities, coverage, severity levels, response targets, approvals, and communication channels.
Document topology and escalation, establish least-privilege access, connect agreed monitoring, and validate runbooks.
Handle the agreed database work, report risks and trends, and plan improvements with your engineering team.
Example operating workflows
These illustrative examples show how an agreed managed DBA scope can connect an immediate task to continuing maintenance and review. Your service plan defines the work and reporting cadence.
An important application query slows down as traffic and data grow.
Example deliverable: Query review, change record, and performance trend
Backups complete, but the team needs to know how recovery would work.
Example deliverable: Restore-test record and recovery runbook
Database spend is rising and the next growth period is approaching.
Example deliverable: Capacity plan and prioritized cost review
A Scoped Operating Model
For managed engagements, the exact tools, cadence, communication channels, response targets, and reliability commitments are defined in the selected plan and signed scope.
Typical tools · Prometheus · Grafana
Where included, database exporters, service-level indicators, and burn-rate alerts are configured for the agreed SLOs.
Typical tools · Loki · ELK · pgBadger
Log collection and alerting can cover slow queries, database errors, replication issues, and authentication events.
Typical tools · Jaeger · Tempo
When application tracing is in scope, traces help connect expensive queries to the services and requests that generated them.
Core services
Managed DBA services provide the recurring operating relationship. Add database SRE, controlled automation, or a focused cost engagement when your production scope requires it.
Explore SQL, NoSQL, search, analytics, and caching technologies, with tools for CDC and data integration. Review the full database coverage directory.
We work across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and on-premises infrastructure. Platform and managed-service coverage is confirmed during discovery for your exact services, versions, and architecture.
Choosing your operating model
An internal DBA, a managed partner, cloud support, and project specialists can work together. Compare the responsibilities you need covered, then confirm the scope and terms with each provider.
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| Consideration | JusDB Managed DBA | In-House DBA | Cloud Provider Support | Project Consulting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Recurring database operations with an agreed scope and engineering capacity | An internal owner with deep application and business context | Support for the provider's services under your selected support plan | A defined audit, migration, tuning, or architecture outcome |
| Database scope | Supported engines, versions, and topologies confirmed during discovery | Your team's expertise, with specialist support where needed | Services and responsibilities covered by the provider's agreement | The engines and environments listed in the project scope |
| Hands-on work | Agreed monitoring, tuning, backup, and maintenance work within your plan | Work prioritized and performed by your internal team | Check which actions the provider performs and which remain with your team | Implementation and handover against agreed deliverables |
| Incident coverage | Human coverage, severity rules, and initial-response targets depend on your plan | Defined by your staffing, on-call rotation, and escalation arrangements | Defined by the provider's support tier and incident terms | Ongoing incident support requires an explicit support arrangement |
| Production control | Your team retains business decisions and agrees access and change approvals | Your internal access and change-management policies apply | Responsibilities are split between the provider and your team | Access, approvals, acceptance, and handover are agreed for the engagement |
| Budget to compare | Retainer or per-unit management, plus any selected coverage add-ons | Hiring, compensation, tools, training, and coverage arrangements | Published support-plan charges plus your team's operating work | Agreed project fee, change requests, and any follow-on support |
Use this as a scoping guide. Capabilities, coverage, and commercial terms vary by team and agreement.
Compare JusDB plansIllustrative P1 response
This illustrative workflow follows an alert through triage, approved mitigation, and review. Your plan defines covered hours and acknowledgement targets. Mitigation and resolution time depend on the incident.
By plan
Initial response target
Runbooks
Environment-specific procedures
Scheduled
Post-incident review
Blameless
Postmortem culture
Illustrative Incident Flow
P1: Alert → Response → Recovery
Alert Detected
SLO / alertAn SLO breach or actionable database alert opens the incident workflow
On-Call Acknowledges
Plan targetThe assigned engineer accepts the page and starts triage
Impact and Cause Assessed
Runbook-guidedEnvironment-specific runbooks guide diagnosis and escalation
Mitigation Applied
Change-controlledUse an approved rollback, failover, configuration change, or containment step
Recovery Verified · Review Opened
Follow-upConfirm stability, document the timeline, and assign corrective actions
Illustrative sequence only · response target is separate from resolution time
Frequently Asked Questions · Operational Clarity
Clear, verifiable answers on how our managed DBA and database reliability engineering services integrate with your engineering team.
JusDB provides ongoing managed DBA and database reliability engineering services alongside your engineering team. The agreed scope can cover monitoring, query performance, backups, upgrades, capacity, and incident support. Your plan defines the work, human coverage, response targets, and approvals; your team retains business priorities and production control.
Meet the JusDB team and review the access, change approval, and reporting requirements for your environment.
Ongoing managed DBA assessment
In 30 minutes, we'll review your production estate, current ownership, recurring workload, and coverage gaps. You'll leave with a concrete next step for scoping ongoing database operations.
No production access is required for the first conversation. Coverage, responsibilities, response targets, and reliability commitments depend on the supported architecture, selected plan, and signed scope.
Prefer evidence first? Request a free database audit
