An autonomous DBRE that works with your team, not around it.
SIXTA is a tireless database reliability engineer that joins your team — starting with PostgreSQL and MySQL. It investigates incidents in minutes, not hours, lives in your incident and change workflows, and gets better the longer it works with you.
prod-pg-primary-01 — checkout queries on analytics_events jumped from 40ms to 2.4s in the last 20 minutes.
analytics_events to restore the previous index path. Queries already recovering — down to ~80ms and dropping.
"Sixta helped me to spot a vacuum to prevent wraparound before static alerts. What can I say besides it works when I need and hides when I focused on other tasks."
+ extensible to new sources
+ webhooks & custom
Every incident leaves a trail in the database layer long before it becomes a page. Latency drifts. Lock contention builds. Query plans shift. The evidence is there — but your monitoring tools treat it as background noise until something breaks.
Your SREs need to know if it's the database — in minutes, not after an hour of triage. Your DBAs need to see what changed before the escalation hits. Right now, both are staring at the same dashboards and seeing nothing useful.
SIXTA reads what the database already knows and delivers the answer to your team while the incident is still forming.
See how the investigation works →03:14 On-call engineer opens Datadog. 14 dashboards. Nothing obvious.
03:22 Checks slow query log. Finds 3 suspects. Runs EXPLAIN on each.
03:31 Correlates with deploy log. Nothing deployed since yesterday.
03:38 Checks pg_stat_statements. Finds the plan regression after ANALYZE.
03:44 Writes the covering index. Tests in staging. Deploys to prod.
03:58 Queries back to normal. Slacks the team. Goes back to sleep.
46 minutes. $210K in downstream impact. And your best engineer just lost a night's sleep.
03:14 Traces to query plan regression after nightly ANALYZE on analytics_events.
03:15 Rules out connection pool, lock contention, disk I/O. All normal.
03:16 Recommends covering index. Posts full RCA to #db-incidents.
03:17 Maria approves. SIXTA builds index concurrently. Zero downtime.
03:18 Queries restored to ~35ms. Monitoring for 24 hours.
6 minutes. Your engineer slept through it.
That 46 minutes happens every time. Same investigation, same manual steps, different night. SIXTA turns it into 6 minutes — and your team sleeps through it.
"It works when I need and hides when I focused on other tasks."
Jefferson Santos · Database Reliability Architect, AB InBev
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SIXTA doesn't just find problems — it gives your team the capability to resolve them in minutes, prevents outages before they escalate, and turns every incident into evidence you can measure.
Minutes, not hours
Every minute of database downtime costs thousands. SIXTA delivers root cause analysis in minutes — cutting mean time to resolution and the cost of every incident. At $4,537 per minute, even a modest MTTR reduction pays for itself many times over.
Your SREs resolve database incidents without waiting for a DBA
Today, every database incident ends the same way: the SRE pages a DBA and waits. SIXTA gives your on-call engineers the diagnostic depth to resolve database issues themselves — root cause, affected queries, and a recommended fix, delivered in minutes. The DBA team gets pulled in for genuinely complex problems, not routine triage.
Detect, don't react
Continuous baseline monitoring detects regressions and anomalies before they become outages. SIXTA spots the query plan regression on Tuesday, so your team isn't firefighting at 3am on Saturday.
Stop doing the same investigation for the third time this month. SIXTA handles the repetitive diagnostic and tuning work. You approve every change and focus on architecture, migrations, and strategy.
Fewer pages. Faster triage. When an incident fires, SIXTA has already traced it to the database layer — or ruled it out. Your on-call gets an answer, not another alert to investigate.
Without SIXTA
- Your on-call spends 46 minutes per incident investigating manually
- SREs escalate to the DBA team and wait. The same investigation happens again next week.
- One senior DBA holds all the knowledge — and they're burned out.
- Monitoring tools show 14 dashboards of symptoms. You still find the root cause by hand.
- Your senior DBREs are expensive and stretched thin. They spend most of their time on investigations that follow the same pattern every time.
With SIXTA
- Root cause in 6 minutes, delivered to Slack with full evidence
- SREs can resolve database incidents directly — no DBA escalation required.
- Every investigation documented and reusable. The knowledge compounds.
- One answer, not 14 dashboards. The specific query, table, and fix.
- Your team's coverage scales without adding headcount
Autonomous database operations isn't a leap of faith. It's a progression. SIXTA starts in read-only mode, surfacing insights you can validate. After it proves itself, you expand its permissions — on your timeline, on your terms.
Observe
Read-only access. SIXTA connects, maps topology, learns query patterns, and builds a baseline. Nothing is modified.
Recommend
Root cause analysis and specific fixes delivered to Slack. Your team reviews every recommendation before acting.
Act
Autonomous actions for risk-assessed operations. Each action type individually gated with full audit trail.
for database operators
The founding team built database monitoring together at Percona, VividCortex, and SolarWinds — then reunited to build what comes next. Backed by Baron Schwartz (founder of VividCortex), Heavybit, Encoded Ventures, and Percona.
Ewen Fortune
25 years in database operations. Built monitoring at VividCortex (→ SolarWinds). Led database product at enterprise scale.
Andrew Morgan
Engineering leadership across RKG, VividCortex, and SolarWinds. Built and operated multi-shard MySQL systems handling hundreds of millions of rows.
Lori Gagnon
6+ years in database and infrastructure software across VividCortex and SolarWinds. Translating complex technical products into enterprise revenue.
Nitay Joffe — Founder/CTO ActionIQ · Facebook Data Infra · HBase Core Contributor
Andy Ellicott — 20 years launching database companies · Vertica, VoltDB, Cloudant/IBM, DBOS
Christian Bilien — Head of Data at BNP Paribas · Global Head of DBRE at Société Générale
Our investors also backed PagerDuty, LaunchDarkly, Citus Data, Crunchy Data, and Snyk
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