Database Health Audit

A database that looks healthy today can be one traffic spike away from an incident. Defaults nobody revisited, replication quietly falling behind, indexes that no longer match the workload: none of it shows up until something breaks.

This audit reviews your full stack against how it actually runs in production, and hands your team a scored, prioritized list of what to fix first. The report and a live rundown land 5–7 business days after kickoff. Pick your database below.

Starting from $11,400

SCOPE YOUR HEALTH AUDIT

MySQL health audit

Your MySQL environment runs the business, but nobody's looked under the hood since it went into production. Most teams only find out their replication topology or InnoDB configuration was wrong when something breaks at 2 a.m., not before.

This audit is a full pass over the stack: hardware and OS, InnoDB configuration, schema and index design, replication topology, and security. We review the environment the way a Percona expert would review a system they were about to get paged for, tracing how your specific workload interacts with your configuration rather than running through a generic checklist.

DELIVERABLES

  • Overall Health Scorecard covering hardware/OS, data design, workload and configuration, high availability, and security
  • Report Scorecard evaluating configuration against best-practice baselines, flagging where defaults are quietly working against you
  • Ranking of recommendations by expected impact and implementation effort
  • Review of replication topology, including failover behavior
  • Query review covering top queries by execution time, lock contention, and index usage
  • Infrastructure and OS-level metrics review, including storage I/O and memory allocation against InnoDB buffer pool sizing
  • PDF audit report delivered 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown session with open Q&A

WHO IT'S FOR

Built for a single standalone MySQL server or source-replica pair, 1–5 servers. Teams running MySQL synchronous clusters (Group Replication, InnoDB Cluster) get a scoped single-node review under this same engagement. Larger or more complex environments, 6+ servers, multiple clusters, mixed topologies, should be scoped under our full consulting audit instead of the fixed-fee engagement.

OUTCOME

You leave with a documented, prioritized list of what's misconfigured, what's about to become a problem at scale, and what to fix first, not a generic checklist copied from a vendor whitepaper. Every recommendation is tied to your actual workload, so your team can act on it without re-litigating whether it applies to your environment.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

Single standalone server or source-replica pair, 1–5 servers

YOU RECEIVE

PDF audit report in 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown with open Q&A

BIGGER ENVIRONMENT?

6+ servers or mixed topologies are scoped under the full consulting audit

MariaDB health audit

Your MariaDB environment runs the business, but nobody's looked under the hood since it went into production. Most teams only find out their replication topology or storage engine configuration was wrong when something breaks at 2 a.m. , not before.

This audit is a full pass over the stack: hardware and OS, storage engine configuration, schema and index design, replication topology, and security. We review the environment the way a Percona expert would review a system they were about to get paged for, tracing how your specific workload interacts with your configuration, rather than running through a generic checklist.

DELIVERABLES

  • Overall Health Scorecard covering hardware/OS, data design, workload, and configuration, high availability, and security
  • Report Scorecard evaluating configuration against best-practice baselines, flagging where defaults are quietly working against you
  • Ranking of recommendations by expected impact and implementation effort
  • Review of replication topology, including failover behavior
  • Query review covering top queries by execution time, lock contention, and index usage
  • Infrastructure and OS-level metrics review, including storage I/O and memory allocation against buffer pool sizing
  • PDF audit report delivered 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown session with open Q&A

WHO IT'S FOR

Built for a single standalone MySQL server or source and its replicas, or synchronous clusters (Galera Cluster), 1–5 servers. Larger or more complex environments, 6+ servers, multiple clusters, mixed topologies, should be scoped under our full consulting audit instead of the fixed-fee engagement.

OUTCOME

You leave with a documented, prioritized list of what's misconfigured, what's about to become a problem at scale, and what to fix first, not a generic checklist copied from a vendor whitepaper. Every recommendation is tied to your actual workload, so your team can act on it without re-litigating whether it applies to your environment.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

Single Galera cluster, 1–5 nodes

YOU RECEIVE

PDF report in 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown with Q&A

BIGGER ENVIRONMENT?

6+ servers or mixed topologies are scoped under the full consulting audit

postgresql health audit

Autovacuum, WAL retention, and replication lag are the three things that quietly can wreck PostgreSQL deployments, and they rarely show up until they already have , usually as bloat nobody budgeted for, or a standby that's fallen far enough behind that failover isn't safe anymore.

This audit reviews your full PostgreSQL stack against how it's actually being used: hardware and OS, autovacuum and WAL configuration, schema design, replication, and security, scoped to a single standalone instance or primary and its replicas.

DELIVERABLES

  • Overall Health Scorecard covering hardware/OS, data design, workload and configuration, high availability, and security
  • Report Scorecard evaluating configuration against workload-specific baselines, not generic postgresql.conf defaults
  • Ranking of recommendations by impact and effort
  • Review of streaming  and logical replication setup
  • Query review to flag top consumers by total time and call count
  • Autovacuum and bloat analysis across your largest tables
  • PDF report delivered 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown with Q&A

WHO IT'S FOR

Scoped to a single standalone PostgreSQL instance or primary and its replicas, 1–5 servers. Multi-region topologies, sharded (e.g. Citus) deployments, or 6+ server environments should be scoped under the custom consulting audit.

OUTCOME

You'll know exactly which settings are fighting your workload and which schema decisions are going to cost you at your next order-of-magnitude growth point , including whether your hardware can actually keep up with your growing TPS rate..

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

Single standalone instance or primary-standby pair, 1–5 servers

YOU RECEIVE

PDF report in 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown with Q&A

BIGGER ENVIRONMENT?

Multi-region, sharded, or 6+ server environments are scoped under the full consulting audit

mongodb health audit

Replica set health and sharded cluster balance don't announce themselves; they show up as latency spikes, oplog rollover, or a chunk migration that's been stuck for three days during your busiest week.

This audit reviews your deployment's configuration, replica set or sharded cluster topology, chunk distribution, and query patterns end to end, before any of that reaches production impact.

DELIVERABLES

  • Overall Health Scorecard covering hardware/OS, data design, workload, and configuration, high availability, and security
  • Report Scorecard evaluating configuration against replica set or sharded cluster best practices
  • Recommendation Scorecard ranking fixes by impact and effort
  • Replica set status and stats review, including oplog window, election configuration, and write concern behavior under load
  • Sharded cluster chunk balancing and shard key review, where applicable, including hotspot analysis and jumbo chunk detection
  • Query review flagging inefficient patterns, missing indexes, and collection scan frequency (recommendations only)
  • Review of WiredTiger cache sizing and its relationship to your working set size
  • PDF report delivered 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown with Q&A

WHO IT'S FOR

Scoped to a single replica set or a single sharded cluster (1–6 data-bearing nodes). Multi-region deployments, cross-region topologies, or environments with 7+ nodes should be scoped under our full consulting audit. This is a point-in-time review; if you're on a recurring health cadence, ask about wrapping it into a quarterly wellness plan.

OUTCOME

A specific, prioritized view of what's misconfigured in your replica set or sharded cluster, and what happens to it under next quarter's growth. You'll know whether your shard key is actually distributing writes evenly before it becomes the reason for an emergency re-sharding project, and whether your WiredTiger cache is sized for the working set you actually have, not the one you started with.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

Single replica set (1–5 servers) or single sharded cluster

YOU RECEIVE

PDF report in 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown with Q&A

BIGGER ENVIRONMENT?

Ask about wrapping it into a quarterly wellness plan

valkey/redis health audit

Most Redis and Valkey deployments are still running on defaults nobody revisited after the initial rollout: cluster topology, eviction policy, and data structure choices included. That's fine until a node suffers from a significant latency spike

This audit reviews the deployment against how it's actually used in production: hardware and OS, cluster configuration, data structure design, and security, scoped to a single cluster or replica set.

DELIVERABLES

  • Overall Health Scorecard covering hardware/OS, data structure design, workload and configuration, high availability, and security
  • Report Scorecard evaluating configuration against durability and availability requirements you've actually stated
  • Ranking of recommendations by impact and effort
  • Stats review,  cluster hash slot distribution and shard balancing review
  • Persistence configuration review against your actual durability requirements
  • Eviction policy and memory management review against your actual key expiration and working set patterns
  • Migration-to-Valkey options review, where applicable, including module compatibility considerations
  • PDF report delivered 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown with Q&A

WHO IT'S FOR

Scoped to a single Redis or Valkey environment (standalone, primary/replica, sentinel, cluster mode). Multi-region deployments should be scoped under our custom consulting audit. This is a point-in-time review; if your team wants recurring checkpoints, ask about a quarterly wellness plan instead.

OUTCOME

Clarity on whether your cluster configuration matches your actual durability and availability requirements, not just what shipped by default. You'll know exactly what data survives a node failure and what doesn't, before you find out the hard way, and whether your eviction policy is quietly dropping keys your application still expects to find.

AT A GLANCE

$11,400 starting from

SCOPE

Single Redis or Valkey cluster or replica set, 1–5 nodes

YOU RECEIVE

PDF report in 5–7 business days after kickoff, plus a live rundown with Q&A

BIGGER ENVIRONMENT?

Ask about a quarterly wellness plan instead

FAQ’s

Real Answers. No Corporate Doublespeak.

The full stack, not just the database config. We review hardware and OS, configuration, schema and index design, replication or cluster topology, and security, all against how your specific workload runs in production. You get three scorecards: overall health, configuration against best-practice baselines, and recommendations ranked by expected impact and implementation effort.

A single deployment of 1 to 5 servers: a standalone server or source-replica pair, a single Galera cluster, a primary-standby pair, a replica set or single sharded cluster, or a single Valkey or Redis cluster, depending on your engine. If you're running 6 or more servers, multiple clusters, or mixed topologies, that's not a problem; it's just scoped under our full consulting audit instead.

A PDF audit report 5–7 business days after kickoff, followed by a live rundown session with open Q&A. The report ranks every recommendation by impact and effort, so your team knows what to fix first.

No. This is a review, not an intervention. Query analysis, for example, produces recommendations only; we don't touch live queries. Nothing in your environment changes unless your team changes it.

Yes. The audit is a point-in-time review, but if you want recurring checkpoints, ask about wrapping it into a quarterly wellness plan.

The report is written so your team can act on it directly; every recommendation is tied to your actual workload, not a generic checklist. If you'd rather have a Percona expert implement the changes, talk to us about a follow-on engagement.
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