
Kevin Ngo is a Staff Product Manager for Observability at Cockroach Labs, where he focuses on observability, diagnostics, and supportability for distributed SQL databases. With a decade+ in the data and database space, he works at the intersection of database operations, troubleshooting, and system understanding for both humans and automated systems.
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Bringing Application-Level Observability to CockroachDB: Query Tagging
Building mission-critical applications on CockroachDB demands robust observability. In complex, microservices-oriented architectures, it can be especially hard to correlate activity and pinpoint problems between different application services and the database layer.

Kevin Ngo
February 6, 2026