AI-Powered Expertise
Upskill your team with tailored recommendations for PostgreSQL tasks,
enabling them to confidently make expert-level decisions.
Your AI-Powered
PostgreSQL Teammate
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.
Introducing Crystal DBA
Crystal DBA never sleeps
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
Level Up Your
PostgreSQL Management
For teams managing PostgreSQL databases without deep Postgres expertise, Crystal DBA delivers:
Enhanced Efficiency
Reduce manual effort and eliminate guesswork with continuous monitoring and AI-driven insights to solve performance bottlenecks.
Proactive Management
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
Crystal DBA in Action
Real-time insights, proactive solutions, and expert optimization for PostgreSQL.
Always On,
Always Observing.
Stay on top of your database with continuous visibility into health and performance.
- Track PostgreSQL health and performance metrics in real-time.
- Identify and resolve errors with insights into failed queries and resource contention.
- Stay ahead with continuous tracking of queries, connections, and resource usage.
How It WorksEffortless PostgreSQL management
Getting Started Documentation
Effortless PostgreSQL management
with AI-powered tools and
seamless integration into your workflow.
- Conversational Interface: Access PostgreSQL insights through Slack or your terminal with natural language queries.
- Read-Only Data Access: Operates securely in read-only mode, keeping your data safe and under your control.
- On-Premises or Cloud: Use Crystal DBA anywhere your databases reside, with no compromise on compliance or control.
- Trusted by Experts: Built with reliability and precision for mission-critical systems.
What to Expect from Your
PostgreSQL AI Teammate
Crystal DBA delivers everything you need to manage
PostgreSQL databases efficiently, securely, and at scale.
Indexing and Query Tuning
Optimize Performance, Instantly
Get AI-driven recommendations to fine-tune query performance and indexes, reducing latency and boosting application speed.
Capacity Planning and
Hardware Recommendations
Plan for Growth
with Precision
Predict workloads and get tailored recommendations for storage and compute to scale confidently while optimizing costs.
Activity and System Monitoring
Proactively Optimize Database Performance
Track queries, connections, and system metrics like CPU and memory in real-time to resolve issues instantly and drive long-term optimizations.
Configuration Tuning
Simplify PostgreSQL Complexity
Crystal DBA automates tuning for over 300 PostgreSQL configuration settings to maximize efficiency and reliability.
Fleet Management
Effortlessly Manage at Scale
Monitor, update, and optimize multiple PostgreSQL databases across your fleet from a single, centralized interface.
Security and Compliance
Secure and Compliant, Always
Protect sensitive data with read-only agents, encryption, and on-premises deployment options to meet enterprise standards.
Created by technical experts from the world’s best companies & universities
Companies we've worked for
Universities that trained us
FAQs
You ask, we answer.
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 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 works with PostgreSQL anywhere it runs: on-prem or in a cloud-managed database service such as Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Google AlloyDB, or Azure PostgreSQL.
Presently Crystal DBA supports PostgreSQL databases version 12 and later. Please let us know if you would like to see us support other databases.
SaaS applications are often challenged with managing multi-tenancy or fleets of microservices, both of which increase the scope and complexity of database administration. Crystal DBA is well suited to these settings, making it feasible to manage and tune each system individually.
Crystal DBA advises on routine database administration tasks, such as configuration, scaling, and maintenance. Crystal DBA optimizes performance and ensures reliability without the need for manual intervention.
An open-source version of Crystal DBA is available on GitHub. Some features are not available in the open-source version.
We believe that anyone should be able to administer their database like an expert DBA. The philosophy behind Crystal DBA is to bring to bear the power of AI to provide expert advice on demand.