US Patent 11500755 Database performance degradation detection and prevention

Techniques for database performance degradation detection and prevention are described. A statement performance monitor observes queries executed against a database engine and clusters the queries into groups of queries. The index utilization of the query groups and execution metrics are tracked over time, and a sudden change of index utilization can be detected. The change can be reported to users and/or new indexes may be automatically generated to serve affected query groups. Additionally, a statement performance monitor may be deployed to statically analyze code to identify modified queries and the resultant change of use of query indexes.