OpenAI runs Valkey as the cache behind a billion ChatGPT users. You won't build Habitat with two engineers and Codex - but if you run the same cache, here's how BetterDB makes operating it better: persisted slowlog and latency, hot-key and connection-storm detection, ACL auditing, and CVE scanning.
The monitor now speaks OpenTelemetry in both directions: it re-emits its whole Prometheus surface and its events over OTLP, and its /v1/traces endpoint ingests OTLP spans from any instrumented service. That gives BetterDB four positions in your pipeline - feed your collector, be one, produce spans, or consume them and add the one thing a pure trace tool can't: the live database state behind the span. It fits wherever your stack has an OTLP-shaped socket open.
A full month in review. BetterDB Monitor now runs fully air-gapped, speaks OpenTelemetry natively, grew its MCP surface, and picked up fifteen new anomaly detectors built straight from the Valkey issue tracker - plus cleaner migration off KeyDB and older Redis, and a month of caching and agent-memory SDK work.
The teams that most need deep database observability are often the ones that can't send a single packet to the outside world. BetterDB Monitor 0.28.0 runs fully air-gapped: signed licenses, local verification, zero phone-home. This post covers how it works and the honest trade-offs.
Why FT.INFO and INFO commandstats aren't enough for production vector workloads on Valkey or Redis - and how BetterDB's new Vector / AI tab closes the gap.
BetterDB now forecasts ops/sec, CPU, memory, and fragmentation - so you can see capacity problems coming before they become incidents.
Why natural language access to Valkey observability data changes how incidents get investigated - and what it means for AI agents that use Valkey directly.
A walkthrough of the same MemoryDB incident debugged three ways - CloudWatch, BetterDB UI, and BetterDB MCP. Same data, very different outcomes.
A practical guide to BetterDB's 99 Prometheus metrics - what they cover, how to configure scraping, and PromQL queries worth keeping around.
Most monitoring tools claim low overhead but never show their work. Here's the interleaved benchmark methodology we use to measure BetterDB's monitoring overhead on Valkey and Redis.
BetterDB 0.3.0 introduces native webhook notifications-real-time alerts for your Valkey or Redis databases without requiring Prometheus or Alertmanager.