New features: Better new user experience, customizations and and more

• New user experience (NUX): Explore our new guided tour which walks you through connecting your database and starting your first tuning session effortlessly.
• Customizable performance guardrail settings: Customize the performance degradation guardrails to more precisely and safely control the tuning session impact on your production system.
• Optimized metrics engine: We've optimized how we store and display metrics, so you can see your performance insights with greater speed and clarity.
• More flexible database management: Delete old or unused database instances directly from your DBtune dashboard.

Introducing the DBtune Academy

Learn more about DBtune and PostgreSQL server parameter tuning in a few simple steps with a 2-hour training course designed to get you a better understanding of the problem and solution space. This includes a high-level product overview, a demo video and a safe sandbox tutorial for hands-on practice. 

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DBtune is Gold Sponsor at
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2025

Join us in Riga, Latvia this coming fall and stay tuned for more exciting updates from us. We can't wait to connect with the global PostgreSQL community

at the biggest PostgreSQL conference yet!

Read more about the conference.

Upcoming events

Catch us at: 

• PGDay UK 2025, Sep 9: Explaining PostgreSQL like I was five (Ellyne Phneah) 
  
  
• PGDay Lowlands 2025, Sep 12: Debate on Autotuning (Dr. Luigi Nardi)
  
  

Rewatch
Missed us? Rewatch our previous talks:

• POSETTE: An Event for Postgres: Setting max_connection: Building PostgreSQL user groups that bring people together (Ellyne Phneah)
  
  
• PGDay France (French only): 
  

  Explorer l'optimisation des paramètres serveur (Dr. Luigi Nardi)
  
  

• PGArmenia Virtual Summit: PostgreSQL: A deep dive into server parameter tuning with Machine Learning (Dr. Luigi Nardi) - video coming soon here

New team member

Dr. David Edwards
Tech Lead, Research

Dr. David Edwards brings a wealth of experience in bridging software engineering with data science to tackle complex technical challenges. With a Ph.D. in Astrophysics, his technical background includes architecting and leading the implementation of a distributed solution for data deletion compliance, a metadata tracking service across Data Lakes, and a Data Platform that empowers Analytics and Data Science teams to deliver their work to customers. Data, data, data!

Articles we love

From good to great: AI-powered Aiven for PostgreSQL server parameter tuning
by Mohsin Ejaz and Eddie Bergman

We show how DBtune’s AI-powered tuning engine optimized PostgreSQL server parameters on Aiven for PostgreSQL and delivered high performance in realistic benchmarks, whether you're handling heavy reads or transactional workloads. 

pgvector newbie to expert 
by Rajeev Thottathil & Raj Jayakrishnan at PostgreSQL Conference Orlando 2025
This session introduces the fundamentals of pgvector, a PostgreSQL extension that enables efficient vector storage and similarity search. Learn how to install, configure, and use pgvector to power high-dimensional queries directly in PostgreSQL.

Checklist: Is your PostgreSQL deployment performance grade?
by Umair Shahid, Stormatics
Assess your current situation and identify steps that can enhance the robustness, security, and scalability of your PostgreSQL deployment.

Join us

• Developing our AI-powered PostgreSQL performance optimization engine.
• Providing expert technical advice to our customers
• Speaking at PostgreSQL community and industry events.

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