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Product2026-07-24 · 4 min read

Auto Discovery: Finding the Databases Nobody Documented

The database that takes you down is usually the one missing from the spreadsheet. Continuous discovery keeps the inventory honest.

Shadow databases are normal

Every growing team accumulates instances: a reporting replica from a migration, a SQLite file behind an internal tool, a MongoDB someone spun up for a prototype that quietly became load-bearing.

Discovery as a continuous process

Running discovery once at onboarding produces a snapshot that is wrong within a month. The agent re-scans its host on a schedule and surfaces new instances in the dashboard with their type, version and size.

From there, enabling backups and monitoring for a newly discovered database is a single toggle — which is the whole point of keeping the inventory current.

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