v5.0.0

Release Summary

Crunchy Data is pleased to announce the availability of pgMonitor 5.0.0. This release brings support for a new Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL - sql_exporter. It also supports a new monitoring extension to make metric collection easier and more performant. This changelog contains all changes that have been added since the 4.11.0 release.

Please see the 5.0.0 upgrade documentation for more information on converting to the new sql_exporter.

Major Changes

• grafana - Add new dashboards for sql_exporter support. New PostgreSQL Overview and PgBouncer direct metrics dashboards
• grafana - New Grafana minimum version is now 10.4. All dashboards have been updated to fix AngularJS deprecation warnings and re-exported from 10.4.
• grafana - Organize packages to allow better choice of available Grafana dashboards
• grafana - Remove top level general Overview dashboard
• pgmonitor-extension - Add more extensive support for materialized views and refreshed tables for expensive or custom metric queries
• pgmonitor-extension - Add support for using the PostgreSQL pgmonitor-extension to aid in metrics collection with sql_exporter
• postgres_exporter - Note that postgres_exporter is still supported but will be deprecated in a future version
• sql_exporter - Add support for directly connecting to PgBouncer to collect metrics
• sql_exporter - Add support for new PostgreSQL metrics collecting exporter (sql_exporter)

Minor Changes

• prometheus - Added OOMKiller Alert using node_exporter metrics

Bugfixes

• docs - add reference links to upstream configuration docs
• exporter - fix the pgbackrest-info.sh to force the necessary console output level that it expects
• grafana - fix some queries that were searching on the wrong label (datname vs. dbname)
• sql_exporter - add new metric for n_tup_newpage_upd
• sql_exporter - use the new views from pgmonitor-extension instead of full queries