Re: Profile what the production server is doing

[Flo Rance <trourance@xxxxxxxxx>]

pgobserver might do that as well, particulary useful for functions performances.

https://github.com/zalando/PGObserver

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 1:18 PM, Thomas Güttler <guettliml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is there a tool which does this for PostgreSQL?

Take a "snapshot" of what the server is doing about 10 times per second.
Write this to a file.
After N hours you can aggregate the file.
What does the server do most of the time?
Which tables/index gets used the most.

Before optimizing a database, I would like to know what is going
on in the production system.

I know that there are internal tables like pg_stat_statements.
But I guess doing a snapshot every N millseconds will present a
better picture of what is going in in real life.

Is there already a tool which goes this way?

Or is there a better way?

Regards,
  Thomas Güttler

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