Database Calls

The Database Calls pane in the service details page shows metrics for all database operations made by your application.

Required span attributes

For a span to appear in this pane:

• span.kind != 2 — spans of any kind except SERVER. See SpanKind for details.
• db.system must be present as a span attribute.

If your services are making DB calls but the Database Calls panel is empty, verify that:

1. Your spans include the attributes above.
2. You are using instrumentation libraries that capture DB call spans (e.g., the OTel SQL or MongoDB instrumentation packages).

Metrics displayed

• Database calls per second — throughput of DB operations over time.
• Average call duration (ms) — mean latency of DB operations over the selected time range.

Pre-built Dashboard

Import the DB Calls Monitoring Dashboard for a ready-made view of database call metrics including transaction rate, error rate, top DB statements, and slowest DB calls.

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