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PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

You're reading from  PostgreSQL 13 Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648138
Pages 344 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
Profile icon Vallarapu Naga Avinash Kumar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters close

Preface 1. Cluster Management Fundamentals 2. Cluster Management Techniques 3. Backup and Recovery 4. Advanced Replication Techniques 5. High Availability and Automatic Failover 6. Connection Pooling and Load Balancing 7. Securing through Authentication 8. Logging and Analyzing PostgreSQL Servers 9. Critical Services Monitoring 10. Extensions and Performance Tuning 11. Upgrades and Patches 12. About Packt 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

How to import a dashboard for monitoring Postgres metrics

We discussed how to import a dashboard to display Linux metrics in the previous recipe. In this recipe, we shall discuss a popular PostgreSQL dashboard and see how it can be imported to your Grafana server.

Getting ready

In order to import the dashboard discussed in this recipe, you should have already set up monitoring of your PostgreSQL server using postgres_exporter. Grafana should be up and running on your monitoring server.

How to do it...

We will import the dashboard as follows:

  1. Import a popular dashboard for Postgres built based on the default queries being used by the Postgres exporter: https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards/9628.
  1. We can import this dashboard and choose Prometheus as a data source:
  1. Once successfully imported, we will automatically see the metrics for the PostgreSQL server on the dashboard:

How it works...

The following is one of the popular dashboards available for visualizing PostgreSQL metrics...

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