NeverBlink

NeverBlink is a database operations platform that continuously checks health, investigates alerts with root-cause analysis, and delivers prioritized recommendations with exact fix steps. It covers Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, and PostgreSQL, including managed services such as Elastic Cloud, Amazon OpenSearch Service, ClickHouse Cloud, and Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL. A lightweight read-only collector gathers operational metrics and metadata, and NeverBlink recommends changes while engineers decide what to apply. The page states that it never changes clusters on its own and never reads or stores database rows, with query literals masked at ingestion. It offers a 0-100 cluster health score, query analytics with an optimizer, alerts, REST API and MCP server access, and integrations with Slack, email, and PagerDuty. Backing is provided by the BigData Boutique team and an optional 24/7 expert SLA. The page cites customer case studies from Frontiers, Aidoc, LinearB, and an AI product discovery platform.

Key features

• Continuous health checks with a 0-100 cluster score across stability, performance, resiliency, and security
• Prioritized recommendations with exact fix steps and one-click ticket creation
• Root-cause analysis of alerts, usually in under a minute
• Query analytics and an optimizer that suggests faster query rewrites for review
• Monitoring dashboards for cluster health, recommendations, alerts, and root-cause analysis
• REST API and MCP server for pulling health, alerts, and recommendations into workflows
• Notifications via Slack, email, or PagerDuty
• Read-only collector deployable on Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, Nomad, or a VM, with nothing installed on database servers
• Masking of query literal values before data reaches NeverBlink
• Enterprise features including SSO and SAML, RBAC, and agent IP allow-listing
• Optional 24/7 expert SLA and unlimited consulting

Best suited for

• Engineering teams running self-managed Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or ClickHouse clusters
• Teams running PostgreSQL or managed database services that need query and sizing optimization
• Product engineers who own the data layer without dedicated DBA staff
• Organizations seeking to reduce database costs and incident response time
• Teams wanting AI coding agents to access live database context under human approval

Pricing

From $29 per cluster / month