OtterTune

Overview

OtterTune is an AI-powered tool that automatically optimizes and tunes PostgreSQL and MySQL databases on Amazon RDS and Aurora to boost performance and reduce costs.

How OtterTune Works

OtterTune uses machine learning algorithms to analyze database configuration settings, indexes, and queries to provide tuning recommendations. An agent is deployed to monitor and collect metrics. OtterTune's AI processes this data to generate optimization suggestions which can be automatically applied on custom schedules.

Key Features

• Powerful Recommendations: Provides tuning suggestions for configuration settings, identifies unused indexes, and optimizes slow queries.
• Health Scores: Monitors fleet and assigns overall and individual scores across resources, tables, indexes and queries to showcase database health. Higher scores indicate better optimization.
• Tuning Modes: Supports automatic and manual application of recommendations on customizable schedules.
• Target Objectives: Optimizes towards metrics like latency, throughput, CPU utilization as per business needs.
• Customizable Charts & Reports: Visualize 100+ metrics and configuration settings in real-time with unlimited historical data.

Use Cases

OtterTune is designed for:

• Engineers: Alleviate database optimization workload so engineers can focus on core applications.
• Companies: Reduce infrastructure costs and improve customer experience through faster databases.

It has proven success across verticals like SaaS, ecommerce, gaming, adtech, fintech and more.

Plans & Pricing

OtterTune offers a free 30-day trial. Paid plans start at $249/month billed annually. Volume discounts available.

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Support

Email and chat support during business hours. Official documentation and community Slack access provided.

Integrations

Supports PostgreSQL and MySQL on Amazon RDS and Aurora. Join waitlist for other databases and environments.

API & Customization

Contact sales for API access, custom tuning objectives and advanced integrations.

Testimonials & Reviews

100% of customers renewed their subscriptions in 2022. OtterTune improved query latency by 95% for Enercalc and delivered 354% higher MySQL throughput compared to Amazon RDS defaults in benchmarks.

FAQs

Does OtterTune access or store sensitive data?

No, OtterTune only collects database metrics and configuration data. No sensitive customer data is ever accessed or stored.

What permissions are needed?

Read-only access to database metrics and ability to modify configuration parameters.

Resources

• OtterTune Website
• Blog
• Knowledge Base
• Community Slack