AI-Native Database Resilience & Optimization | Pulse

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Faster Queries. Lower Bills. Fewer Surprises.

Your production databases shouldn't keep you up at night. Pulse's AI continuously tunes, troubleshoots, and right-sizes the databases your product runs on, backed by senior engineers on call 24/7.

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Works with the Most Commonly Used Open-Source Databases

Optimizing Mission-Critical Databases for Leading Brands

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Your databases are quietly costing you money, time, and sleep

Slow queries, runaway bills, and 3 a.m. pages are the tax of running databases at scale. The expertise to fix them is scarce, expensive, and hard to keep in-house, so problems pile up until something breaks.

Why the usual fixes fall short

Traditional approaches drive up costs, increase toil, and force teams into reactive firefighting

What you actually want: continuous, expert-grade optimization for every database, without hiring for it. That's Pulse.

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Get Clear Signals. Take Decisive Action.

Pulse keeps your databases running smoothly by identifying issues and telling you exactly how to fix them. Designed to complement monitoring tools like Grafana and Datadog, Pulse adds deep, database-specific insight, root-cause analysis, and preventative intelligence, with experts available 24/7 when you need them.

A Single Pane of Glass for Every Database

See every database you run in one place, across clusters, environments, and clouds. Group them the way you think, by team, environment, cloud, or workload, with each database's health assessment score and any active alerts surfaced right alongside it. Know what's healthy and what needs attention, without juggling consoles.

Pulse single pane of glass showing every database with its health score and alerts

Query Analytics That Pinpoints What's Slow and Expensive

Pulse traces query patterns across every database and fingerprints them to surface the slow, expensive, and redundant queries driving your latency and cost. See per-query latency, call counts, and resource usage, with concrete recommendations on indexes, projections, and rewrites to make them faster and cheaper.

Pulse query analytics surfacing slow and expensive queries with recommendations

From connected to optimized in three steps

No agents on your database, no rip-and-replace. Pulse plugs into what you already run.

1. Connect

1. Connect

Point Pulse at your databases in minutes. The low-signature agent runs in your environment, reads only the metrics it needs, and never sees your data.

2. Analyze

2. Analyze

Pulse's AI continuously inspects metrics, logs, queries, and configuration across every database it manages to surface what's wrong, what's wasteful, and what's about to break.

3. Optimize

3. Optimize

Get specific, prioritized fixes with the why behind each one. You decide what to apply, with senior engineers on call 24/7 when you want a human in the loop.

Cut Cost. Improve Performance. Eliminate Toil.

Pulse saves you time, effort and money with automated analysis and intelligent recommendations for database optimization. Maintenance tasks that used to take hours are delivered in minutes.

Reduce Cost, Improve Performance

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Everything you need to run your databases with confidence

Pulse combines AI-powered automation with expert human support, giving you everything you need to keep every database fast, stable, and cost-efficient

Built for your team, and the agents they build with

Pulse meets you where you work: a polished UI for your team, a full API and MCP server for builders, and real-time signals your AI coding agents can trust.

Pulse dashboard UI connecting team members to recommendations

Sleek UI for Teams

A clean, fast dashboard. Health, recommendations, costs, and alerts in one place.

Pulse MCP server and API exposing database signals to code

APIs & MCP for Builders

A full REST API and an MCP server. Wire Pulse into your workflows, CI, and tools.

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Signals for Agents

Wire Pulse into Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor over MCP — agents reason from your real database, not guesses.

Real results across the databases we manage

Outcomes our customers see after switching to Pulse.

80–90%

less time spent managing databases

70%

faster incident detection

25–30%

reduction in database costs

Zero

incidents since onboarding

Built for any database, any environment, any workload

Pulse helps both fully-managed and self-managed databases, on AWS, Elastic Cloud, ClickHouse Cloud, Aiven, or your own infrastructure across any cloud or private data center. Whether you're powering search and observability (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch), real-time analytics and OLAP (ClickHouse), or transactional workloads (PostgreSQL), Pulse fits your use case.

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Trusted in Production at Scale

Top engineering and platform teams rely on Pulse to keep their mission-critical databases stable, efficient, and under control as scale and complexity grow

Loved by the engineers who run the data

From directors of engineering to the on-call engineers themselves, teams trust Pulse with the databases their products depend on.

Secure, Non-Intrusive, and Dev-Friendly

Pulse is built to meet strict production and security requirements with zero added friction

Fast, Low-Friction Setup

Fast, Low-Friction Setup

With our integration wizard, it takes just a few steps and a couple of minutes to complete the Pulse setup.

Secure & Non-Intrusive by Design

Secure & Non-Intrusive by Design

The low-signature Pulse Agent is runs in your environment. Nothing is installed on the cluster itself.

We Never Send Your Data

We Never Send Your Data

Pulse will never send any of your data. The Pulse agent periodically pings your cluster to collect and analyze necessary metrics.

Enterprise-Grade Security

Enterprise-Grade Security

Pulse is SOC 2 Type II certified, with independently verified controls designed to meet strict production and compliance requirements.

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