Percona has partnered with Coroot to offer Coroot Percona Edition to its customers, extending monitoring beyond the database layer.
The agreement combines Percona's database monitoring and support with Coroot's open source observability software, designed to trace faults across applications, networks, infrastructure and databases. The combined offer is aimed at organisations running distributed and cloud-native systems, including Kubernetes-based environments.
Database teams are increasingly dealing with incidents that do not start inside the database itself. In those cases, engineers often need to follow signals across several parts of the technology stack to determine whether a slowdown or outage began in the application, the network, the infrastructure or the database engine.
Coroot Percona Edition will sit alongside Percona Monitoring and Management, or PMM, which gives customers visibility into database health, queries, replication and engine internals. Coroot adds a wider view of the surrounding environment, while Percona continues to provide database support for findings tied to the data layer.
One of the central features is automated tracing of issues to what the companies describe as the root cause. For database-related findings, the system can send teams directly to a Percona support case, linking incident detection with vendor support.
The companies also highlighted the use of artificial intelligence to analyse telemetry data. The function is intended to identify likely causes of incidents and present evidence from across the stack, reducing the amount of manual investigation needed by operations and engineering teams.
Broader visibility
The software is built to correlate telemetry across applications, networks, infrastructure and databases. In practice, that means teams can see whether pressure in one area of an environment is affecting another, such as an application issue straining database performance or infrastructure changes altering service behaviour.
Coroot is also aimed at dynamic environments where services scale up and down and nodes may move or disappear. The software is designed to maintain visibility in those conditions, with support for Kubernetes as well as other deployment models.
Another point of emphasis is deployment control. The software supports self-hosted and fully air-gapped installations, which may appeal to organisations that want observability data to remain inside infrastructure they manage directly.
The partnership also sets out a path for tighter links with other Percona products and services, including Percona Support, PMM, Percona Operators, OpenEverest and Percona's database knowledge base.
Percona is known for software, support and services around open source databases including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Valkey and Redis. Coroot focuses on open source observability and root cause analysis software for production systems.
Peter Farkas, Chief Executive Officer, Percona, outlined the rationale for the move.
"The database is at the center of critical applications, but it does not operate in isolation. Our customers need to understand what is happening both inside the database and across everything that depends on it. By combining Coroot's broader observability capabilities with Percona's database expertise and support, we can give teams a more complete picture of their environments, not just a symptom, but the root cause behind it, and help them get from identifying a problem to resolving it faster," said Peter Farkas, Chief Executive Officer, Percona.
Open source focus
Both groups are positioning the arrangement around open source infrastructure. Percona has built its business around open source database operations, while Coroot offers observability software under an open source model and says its tools are used across Kubernetes, virtual machines and bare-metal systems.
The deal reflects wider demand among technology teams for tools that connect system data across previously separate domains. Database monitoring, infrastructure monitoring and application tracing have often been handled in different tools, leaving engineers to piece together incidents manually when systems fail.
By linking Coroot's broader telemetry analysis with Percona's database expertise, the partners are targeting customers that want a single path from alert to diagnosis, particularly where modern distributed systems can blur the line between application and database faults.
Nikolay Sivko, Chief Executive Officer, Coroot, said the partnership is intended to connect broad observability with database operations.
"Coroot was built to help engineering teams understand how complex systems behave as a whole. By partnering with Percona, we can bring that broad visibility together with deep database expertise, helping customers connect what is happening across their applications and infrastructure back to the databases those systems depend on," said Sivko.