Your team has to investigate the performance of a database.

The 'Databases' app in Dynatrace offers a comprehensive, vendor-agnostic view of all monitored databases. It consolidates performance metrics such as CPU usage, memory consumption, active sessions, response times, and failed connections. It is designed to give users a centralized location for investigating the health and performance of databases, making it the primary tool for such tasks. The app enables teams to correlate issues with underlying infrastructure, understand resource consumption, and identify performance bottlenecks directly tied to the database.

Provided dashboards from a database extension may contain useful visualizations but lack the breadth of metrics and insights that the dedicated Databases app provides. Synthetic tests are primarily used for simulating user behavior to test availability and performance from the user's perspective—not for internal database monitoring. Looking at service data can help in understanding application-level issues but does not deliver detailed or direct metrics from the database layer.