A DBRE that joins your team and earns your trust
SIXTA is onboarded like a person — introduced to your infrastructure, your naming conventions, your policies, and your team. It builds context over time, just as a new hire would. It starts by observing. Over time, it earns the authority to act.
Meet Your New DBREDatabases
Direct read-only connection to MySQL and PostgreSQL
Monitoring
Your existing observability stack — CloudWatch, Performance Insights, Percona PMM
Events
Deploys, incidents, schema changes from your CI/CD and incident tools
Database Telemetry
Connects directly using native protocols. Collects query patterns, schema metadata, and configuration — continuously.
Monitoring Integration
Ingests metrics from your existing monitoring. Supplements direct database telemetry without replacing your current stack.
Change Awareness
Receives signals from your deploy pipeline, incident management, and source control. Knows when something changed.
Baselines
What normal looks like for each database. Time-of-day and day-of-week patterns. Workload fingerprints.
Anomaly Detection
Groups related signals into incidents. Distinguishes real problems from noise. Classifies severity automatically.
Proactive Monitoring
Catches new queries before they cause problems. Tracks capacity trends and headroom. Detects query plan regressions.
Pattern Recognition
Recognises problems it has seen before and resolves them instantly — without re-investigating from scratch.
Your Context
Runbooks, architecture docs, escalation paths, and business criticality — referenced in every investigation.
Institutional Memory
Every investigation is documented and searchable. SIXTA gets faster and more accurate with every incident.
Reasoning Engine
Investigates anomalies, diagnoses root causes, and proposes fixes. For known patterns, resolves instantly from past experience. For novel problems, reasons through your environment step by step.
Investigate
Analyses query plans, examines locks and sessions, checks replication health, assesses capacity — the same diagnostic steps your best DBA would take.
Recommend
Proposes specific fixes with evidence and expected impact. Every recommendation shows its reasoning and links to your runbooks.
Execute
With your approval, applies safe changes under strict guardrails. Every action is policy-gated, auditable, and reversible.
Ask questions
"What's causing the CPU spike on db47?" — SIXTA investigates and responds in your workflow with findings and recommendations.
Receive findings
Proactive alerts delivered to Slack, Teams, or your own internal systems. Not dashboards — clear explanations of what happened, why, and what to do about it.
Stay in control
You decide what SIXTA is allowed to do. Approval workflows, change windows, and blast-radius limits are all configurable.
Transparency
Shows its reasoning every time
Consent
No changes without your approval
Auditability
Every action logged and traceable
Boundaries
You define where it can act
Reversibility
Never acts without an undo path
Isolation
Deploys inside your network. Air-gapped option available.
Connect
SIXTA deploys inside your infrastructure and establishes read-only connections to your MySQL and PostgreSQL instances. It can also ingest from AWS CloudWatch, Performance Insights, Datadog, and Percona PMM, but doesn't depend on them.
SIXTA does not collect personally identifiable information. With a local model and custom integrations, SIXTA can run fully air-gapped — no outbound connections required.
Learn
SIXTA maps your database topology, catalogs query patterns, and builds a baseline of normal behaviour. It learns the difference between a genuine anomaly and a Tuesday morning batch job, a month-end reporting spike, or a deploy that temporarily increases connection count.
This understanding is specific to your environment. No generic thresholds.
Act
When something deviates, SIXTA traces the root cause to a specific query, table, or missing index and delivers the analysis to Slack, Teams, or your own internal systems. Initially, your team reviews every recommendation. As SIXTA proves its accuracy, you can unlock autonomous actions for safe, risk-assessed operations.
You control exactly what SIXTA is allowed to do.
Root Cause Analysis
When an incident hits, SIXTA traces it from the symptom (CPU spike, replication lag, connection pool exhaustion) to the specific cause. Not "your database is slow." More like "unindexed JOIN on orders.user_id in OrderService.processPayment() is causing a full table scan."
Table: orders, missing index on user_id
Fix: ADD INDEX idx_orders_user_created (user_id, created_at)
Expected: 94% query time reduction, $47K/yr saved
Proactive Detection
SIXTA doesn't wait for things to break. It identifies degradation patterns days before they become incidents. A query that's getting 2% slower each week. A connection pool that's trending toward capacity. A replication lag pattern that correlates with a specific workload.
connection pool limits within 14 days at
current growth rate. Recommended action: increase
pool size or optimise query batch processing.
Knowledge Capture
Every investigation, every root cause, every fix becomes part of SIXTA's understanding of your environment. When your senior DBA leaves, their diagnostic intuition doesn't leave with them. SIXTA retains the institutional knowledge that's usually locked in someone's head.
Shows its working
Every recommendation is evidence-backed. Every action is auditable. SIXTA documents what it did and why, building a knowledge base your team can learn from.
Read-only monitoring
SIXTA connects with read-only credentials, ingests telemetry, and builds its understanding of your environment. It watches query patterns, maps topology, and establishes baselines. Nothing is modified. Nothing is written. This is where every deployment starts.
Analysis with human review
Root cause analysis and specific fixes delivered to Slack or Teams. Your team reviews every recommendation before executing. SIXTA shows its reasoning: what to do, why, and what happens if you don't. This is where most customers operate day-to-day.
Autonomous resolution with guardrails
Unlock autonomous actions for risk-assessed, safe operations. Kill a runaway query. Adjust a connection pool. Add a missing index during a maintenance window. Each action type is individually gated. SIXTA assesses risk before acting, runs within strict guardrails, and produces a full audit trail. You control exactly what it's allowed to do.
MySQL Instances
Read-only user, native protocol
PostgreSQL Instances
Read-only user, native protocol
CloudWatch / PMM
Optional metric supplement
SIXTA
Container or VM
in your infrastructure
Slack / Teams
Channels, threads, adaptive cards
Your Internal Systems
Custom integrations via bespoke connectors
Audit Log Store
Your S3, CloudWatch, or SIEM
Air-Gapped Option Available
With a local model and custom integrations, zero outbound connections required. Slack/Teams integration requires a connection to api.sixta.ai for message coordination.
No Cross-Customer Training
Your data trains your DBRE only — never shared
Database Access
Read-only user on each monitored instance. MySQL: SELECT on performance_schema and sys, PROCESS, REPLICATION SLAVE. PostgreSQL: pg_monitor role. No schema write access required to start. See full permissions reference.
Compute
Container (Docker/ECS/EKS) or VM. Typical footprint: 2 vCPU, 4GB RAM. Scales with number of monitored instances. No GPU required.
Network
Inbound: none required. Outbound: HTTPS to your configured LLM endpoint, Slack/Teams via api.sixta.ai (or your own messaging systems), and optionally AWS/Datadog/PMM APIs. With a local model and custom integrations, zero outbound connections required. See full network reference.
Setup Timeline
Connect: hours. Baseline learning: days. Full environment understanding: 2–4 weeks. SIXTA gets more accurate over time as it learns your patterns.
See it in your environment
We'll connect to your databases, show you what SIXTA finds, and let the analysis speak for itself.
Meet Your New DBRE