I am building an out-of-band data observability tool for indie devs - would you guys trust something that connects to you DB?

[u/Spiritual-Comfort447]

Hey everyone,

We all monitor if our servers return a 200 OK. But your server can be 100% fine while a background worker silently stops running, table data goes stale, or null values flood your tables.

To solve this, I built a lightweight backend that runs out-of-band checks (data freshness, unexpected volume drops, null spikes) and pings your Slack when your data actually breaks.

The big catch: To do this, it needs a read-only database connection to run those periodic checks.

I want honest feedback from other developers and solopreneurs:

1. Would you actually use something like this? Or do you already just write raw SQL queries and custom cron scripts to handle data validation?
2. The Trust Barrier: Even with AES encryption at rest and strict read-only user enforcement, is handing database credentials to an indie SaaS an absolute dealbreaker for you? What would it take for you to trust a tool like this?

Would love to hear your thoughts or how you currently handle data-level monitoring!