MTAR T3D Sessions: Thinking outside the box with infrastructure monitoring

More than a refresh: Conversations with the most interesting people you've never met · Oct 7, 2025 · 11m

In this episode, Command Prompt Founder JD sits down with Hunter O’Brien, Jr Sysadmin/Jr DBA at Command Prompt, to talk about why monitoring isn’t one-size-fits-all.

They explore how out-of-the-box tools often give shallow insights, and why teams should leverage their QA and test environments to improve production monitoring.

Hunter shares examples like catching Postgres sequence wraparound, setting up smarter disk alerts, and customizing metrics so they actually reflect your environment — not just a template.

If you’re running PostgreSQL in production, this short talk will help you turn your…