Collection of self-managed postgres metrics

These settings are for the self-managed postgres deployments.

For the collector to scrape data from postgres, it requires a few things. Please follow the instructions here and come back to this page.

Setting Up Database Monitoring for self hosted Postgres

The postgres instance needs to be annotated as following. Restart postgres after you make these changes.

postgresql:
  primary:
    podAnnotations:
      ad.datadoghq.com/postgresql.check_names: '["postgres"]'
      ad.datadoghq.com/postgresql.init_configs: '[{}]'
      ad.datadoghq.com/postgresql.instances: '[{"host": "%%host%%", "port":5432, "username": "<user-you-created>", "password" : "<password-you-chose>", "tags" : []}]'
  readReplicas:
    podAnnotations:
      ad.datadoghq.com/postgresql.check_names: '["postgres"]'
      ad.datadoghq.com/postgresql.init_configs: '[{}]'
      ad.datadoghq.com/postgresql.instances: '[{"host": "%%host%%", "port":5432, "username": "<user-you-created>", "password" : "<password-you-chose>", "tags" : []}]'