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 select performance insights.

General

Service name - You can edit the name of the database service in this field.

Description - You can edit the description of the database service in this field.

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

Additional settings -

• To enable delete protection, toggle the Enable delete protection button. It is disabled by default. When you enable this option, it does not allow you to delete the database service. This helps to safeguard against mistaken deletes.

• To enable stop protection, toggle the Enable stop protection button. It is disabled by default. When you enable this option, it does not allow you to stop the database service.

• To disable auto minor version updates, toggle the Enable auto minor version update button. It is enabled by default. It automatically updates your database service whenever a minor patch is released.

Maintenance Window

To update the displayed current schedule, select your desired start day, start time, and the duration (in 30-minutes 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 provides a granular look at 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 12 - Settings tab