Settings

The Settings tab provides options to modify your database service post-creation. You can edit the service, adjust the database timezone, schedule maintenance windows, and configure performance insights.

General

• Service name — Edit the name of the database service.

• Description — Edit the description of the database service.

• Database settings — Choose from the dropdown list to change the timezone for your database service.

• Additional settings:

  • Toggle Enable delete protection to prevent the database service from being deleted. This option is disabled by default.

  • Toggle Enable stop protection to prevent the database service from being stopped. This option is disabled by default.

  • Toggle Enable auto minor version update to enable or disable automatic minor version updates. This option is enabled by default.

Maintenance Window

To update the current schedule, select your desired start day, start time, and duration (in 30-minute increments), then click Save.

Monitoring

To enable Performance Insights, ensure that you create a Monitoring Infra in the Monitoring Performance Insights Infrastructure application under the DB Services app family.

Toggle the button to enable or disable Performance Insights. This feature analyzes database load over a specific timeframe, helping to identify bottlenecks and areas needing performance improvement.

Observability

You can view the specific alert policies applied to your service directly from this section.

• Click View details on the Alert Policies panel to open the detailed breakdown. The Alert Policy details panel shows how your alerts are configured and where notifications are sent.

• Notification Channels — Displays the destination where alerts are delivered, such as Slack channels or specific email addresses.

• Alert Metrics — Lists the specific conditions that trigger an alert (for example, Node Down or DB Service Node Down) along with the severity level (for example, Critical).

• Metric & Notification Policies — Shows the underlying policy names and metric types associated with each alert group.

To modify these policies or create new alert profiles, navigate to the Alerting app within the Observability app family.

Figure 1: Settings tab