Executive Summary

Many engineering teams and SREs lack quick, developer-facing visibility into database storage usage, causing surprise bills and wasted spend; existing cost tools are often separate from the consoles where developers actually work. This pain is acute for teams on managed cloud DBs where storage costs can balloon and attribution is hard to obtain. You could build a lightweight, developer-first product that surfaces per-database, per-table, and per-environment storage metrics and cost attribution directly inside existing consoles and UIs (GitHub, cloud DB consoles, internal admin panels). Ship open-source integrations, a CLI, and marketplace plugins that provide actionable remediation suggestions (TTL, compaction, index cleanup) plus estimated dollar savings. The market is attractive: about 2,000,000 developer teams represent an addressable opportunity and a roughly $6.0B market at ~$3,000 ACV for developer tooling and light DB observability. Broader trends — developer-first tooling adoption, rising managed DB costs, and product-led distribution channels — make go-to-market less sales-heavy and faster to scale. You can differentiate by being storage-specialized, low-friction, and open-source-first, delivering clear ROI rather than more telemetry noise, but you’ll need to solve integration complexity, multi-cloud access, and data-privacy concerns to win trust. If you can deliver accurate cost attribution and simple installation that fits developer workflows, the idea has strong revenue potential (market score 85/100, revenue potential 86/100) and is worth pursuing.

Market Opportunity

Surface database storage usage in developer consoles and UIs targets a $6.0B = 2,000,000 developer teams × $3,000 ACV (developer tooling + light DB observability spend) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% estimated developer tools and lightweight observability growth (industry reports and trends in dev tooling adoption).

Key trends driving demand: Developer-first tooling adoption — developers prefer lightweight, open-source integrations that embed into existing workflows, creating a distribution channel for console-embedded features.; Rising cloud DB costs — as more workloads move to managed DBs, teams seek quick ways to visualize and cut storage cost, creating demand for storage-specific tooling.; Shift to product-led growth for dev tools — GitHub Marketplace, CLI tools, and OSS projects enable rapid adoption without large sales teams.; Specialization of observability — large vendors focus on metrics/traces, leaving niche needs like storage visibility underserved and accessible to focused startups..

Key competitors include Prisma Studio, Datadog (Database Monitoring), TablePlus / pgAdmin (DB GUIs).

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Surface database storage usage in developer consoles and UIs

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