It's true that for static workloads/databases, you don't need continuous tuning.
But as you add new app features, grow database size, upgrade DBMS versions, and make other changes, OtterTune tracks your system to make sure you are always using the best config. This is problem is even harder with 1000s of individual database instances. Customers have told us that they want something can tune database continuously in a way that is not possible with DBAs and existing monitoring tools.
Knob tuning is also the first step in the kind of automation that we are working on using OtterTune's ML-based approach.
But as you add new app features, grow database size, upgrade DBMS versions, and make other changes, OtterTune tracks your system to make sure you are always using the best config. This is problem is even harder with 1000s of individual database instances. Customers have told us that they want something can tune database continuously in a way that is not possible with DBAs and existing monitoring tools.
Knob tuning is also the first step in the kind of automation that we are working on using OtterTune's ML-based approach.