postgres_exporter VS PgHero

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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.

I am using https://github.com/ankane/pghero/ and this is one of its features with GUI

I use either PgHero or Rails PG Extras on every project

There are tools available which can look at your Postgres logs and tell you if you need to add indexes, I've used https://github.com/ankane/pghero before and it seems decent.

https://github.com/ankane/pghero (open source equivalent to pganalyze)

- [pghero](https://github.com/ankane/pghero)

pghero

If you are using PostgreSQL you can enable logging of slow queries and connect to the server with pghero (https://github.com/ankane/pghero) and check top queries by the number of requests and total usage time. Also, you can just enable logging of queries in Django, and on each request, you will have a list of queries on development, sometimes it's just a missing select_related of prefetch_related to increase performance, or you need to create a complex index.

If you are using rails, pghero is a great gem to get better visibility on your Postgres performance

https://github.com/ankane/pghero

I know others can answer this better but we use a combination of PgHero and logging of slow queries trough jOOQ.