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.
CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY, no production impact. Queries back to ~35ms. I'll monitor for the next 24 hours and flag anything unexpected.
Every database incident follows a pattern. Traditional monitoring treats all signals equally, so the answer gets buried in dashboards and alerts.
That's ~$794K per incident. And the team you can't hire is the one that would fix it.
See the full ROI analysis →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.
And this won't get better. 73% of companies can't find database talent. The team you need to hire doesn't exist. SIXTA covers the gap.
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SIXTA doesn't just find problems — it reduces the cost of every incident, scales your team without hiring, and prevents outages before they happen.
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.
Scale without hiring
Senior DBREs cost $180–250K fully loaded and are almost impossible to find. SIXTA takes on investigative and routine work — the 3am pages, the recurring performance deep-dives — so your existing team covers more ground without burning out.
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.
+ extensible to new sources
+ webhooks & custom
Without SIXTA
- Your on-call engineer spends 46 minutes per incident — manually
- Same investigation, different day. No institutional learning.
- One senior DBA holds all the knowledge. When they leave, it goes with them.
- Monitoring tools show 14 dashboards of symptoms. You still find the root cause by hand.
- $180–250K per senior DBRE — if you can find one. 73% of companies can't.
With SIXTA
- Root cause analysis in 6 minutes, delivered to Slack with full evidence
- Every investigation documented, searchable. The knowledge compounds.
- Institutional memory that never takes a day off or changes jobs
- One answer, not 14 dashboards. The specific query, table, and fix.
- Scale your existing team's coverage 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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