Reference
Everything else, by topic: how DBTrail works inside, settings, monitoring, other databases, Claude, and the commercial edition.
The pages you need to install DBTrail and use it are in the menu. These are for when you want to go deeper.
More ways to use it
- Dashboards: Metabase or any BI tool on the copy.
- Fast queries in DuckDB: the copy on your laptop or a server.
- Past rows through ProxySQL: any row as it was, with
AS OF. - Prove your backups restore: table by table, before you need them.
- Export to Iceberg: for Spark, Trino, Athena or Snowflake.
- Connect Claude: ask about your data in plain English. Usage · Tools
How it works
- Architecture: what DBTrail is made of, and what it never does to your database.
- How the copy works: where your rows live and what an update costs.
- Snapshots: how snapshots and recorded changes rebuild a table.
- Schema changes: what happens when a column changes.
- Capacity planning: memory, CPU and disk, measured.
Settings and operations
- Servers · Backups · Retention · Verification
- S3-compatible storage · Web interface on a hostname
- Status · Alerts
- Telemetry · Compliance mapping