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Episode Synopsis
Michael is joined by Alicja Kucharczyk, Program Manager for Azure Database for PostgreSQL at Microsoft and organiser of the Warsaw PostgreSQL User Group, to discuss Alicja's favorite tool: pgBadger. They cover what it is, how and when it's useful, and some guidance for getting the most out of it (without causing an outage). Here are some links to things they mentioned:pgBadger website https://pgbadger.darold.net pgBadger repo https://github.com/darold/pgbadgerAn example pgBadger report https://pgbadger.darold.net/examples/sample.html pg_stat_statements https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.htmlAzure Guide https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/how-to-generate-pgbadger-report-from-azure-database-for/ba-p/3756328Google Cloud SQL guide https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/guide-to-the-database-observability-with-cloud-sqlRDS guide https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/optimizing-and-tuning-queries-in-amazon-rds-postgresql-based-on-native-and-external-tools/Community Insights on pgBadger (PGSQL Phriday Recap) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/community-insights-on-pgbadger-a-pgsql-phriday-010-recap/ba-p/3880911 PGSQL Phriday #010: Log analysis (blog post by Lætitia Avrot) https://mydbanotebook.org/post/log-analysis/ Nothing Compares To VACUUM/The Ballad of Bloat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NxIngqq1y0 Explain Analyze (Feliz Navidad cover) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznnzYZPdkM ~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is produced by:Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustardNikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork
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