import { PrismaInstrumentation } from "@prisma/instrumentation";import { registerInstrumentations } from "@opentelemetry/instrumentation";registerInstrumentations({ instrumentations: [new PrismaInstrumentation()] });
Aspect
Detail
Spans
One per query + engine work
Attributes
db.system, db.statement, model
5. Implementing Alerting
Signal
Alert
Error rate
> 1% sustained
p95 latency
> SLO threshold
Pool saturation
> 80% sustained
Migration failure
Page on-call
6. Monitoring Database Performance
Metric
Detail
CPU/IO
RDS Performance Insights / pganalyze
Slow queries
pg_stat_statements
Replication lag
Replica health
7. Tracking Error Rates
Tool
Detail
Sentry
Capture w/ stack + breadcrumbs
Bugsnag/Rollbar
Alternatives
Tagging
Add prisma.code tag
8. Implementing Distributed Tracing
Backend
Detail
Jaeger
OSS
Tempo
Grafana stack
Honeycomb
Wide-event SaaS
9. Using Performance Dashboards
Panel
Detail
QPS
Counter rate
Latency histogram
p50/p95/p99
Pool gauges
open / idle / waiting
Error breakdown
By Prisma code
10. Implementing Audit Trails
Combine extension-based audit logging (50.8) with append-only storage, signed events, and correlation IDs from OpenTelemetry to produce a complete, tamper-evident trail across services. Forward audit events to a separate sink (e.g., S3 with Object Lock or a dedicated audit DB) for compliance retention.