pg_exporter VS postgres_exporter

I’m setting up some monitoring for a PostgreSQL instance and came across two seemingly mature projects for Prometheus monitoring, those being postgres_exporter and pg_exporter . From the outside it looks like postgres_exporter is linked from the Prometheus pages, but has fewer recent updates, and pg_exporter has a smaller user base but a more active development community.

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An easy way forward would be to export it as a metric through something like https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter and then set up an alert on the metric reporting >= 1.

We use postgres as RDBMS for our database needs and if you guys are already using postgres_exporter(https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter) for exporting PostgreSQL server metrics to prometheus, then you can surely give coroot-pg-agent a try.

It’s not that simple…https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter :)

New server and want a basic config for a production server? (I'm assuming brand new app here, no prior monitoring and knowledge on what to tune.)

Use this to get the values you need https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/#/ .

This saved me a lot of headaches, and it just gets the server into a good enough state from which you can observe and optimise later.

I'd also add in monitoring early, add a Prometheus exporter https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter and alerts https://awesome-prometheus-alerts.grep.to/rules#postgresql . There are a few Grafana dashboards available for the prometheus exporter, start with those.

I’m setting up some monitoring for a PostgreSQL instance and came across two seemingly mature projects for Prometheus monitoring, those being postgres_exporter and pg_exporter . From the outside it looks like postgres_exporter is linked from the Prometheus pages, but has fewer recent updates, and pg_exporter has a smaller user base but a more active development community.

PostgreSQL monitoring with Prometheus is an easy thing to do thanks to the PostgreSQL Exporter.

Thanks, that is probably a better fit. I was looking to use this part of the PostgreSQL exporter: https://github.com/prometheus-community/postgres_exporter/blob/master/queries.yaml and just not care about the metrics about Postgres itself.

The postgres_exporter provides the data about the state of replication. Then you have rules like these to validate the data.