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PostgreSQL Exporter

Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL server metrics

Monitoring & Status ★ 3.6k stars Easy setup Apache-2.0

PostgreSQL Exporter is the Prometheus community exporter that collects statistics from a PostgreSQL server, including connections, replication lag, table sizes, and query activity. It supports custom queries and is widely used for production database monitoring.

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Key features

  • Replication and connection metrics
  • Custom query support
  • Multi-database scraping
  • Prometheus community maintained

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Battle-tested in production
  • Rich default metrics

Trade-offs

  • No UI of its own
  • Needs Grafana for graphs

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