PostgreSQL Observability Summit
PostgreSQL now runs everywhere, on-prem, cloud-managed, on Kubernetes. Each deployment model comes with its own monitoring stack, its own blind spots, and its own trade-offs. This half-day summit brings together tool maintainers, cloud engineers, Kubernetes operators, and DBAs to explore what a unified PostgreSQL observability strategy looks like across deployment platforms, and where the gaps and opportunities are.
About
PostgreSQL now runs everywhere, on-prem, cloud-managed, on Kubernetes. Each deployment model comes with its own monitoring stack, its own blind spots, and its own trade-offs. At the same time, new workloads like AI/vector search with pgvector, agentic access patterns through MCP servers, and streaming pipelines are generating observability pressure that traditional tooling wasn't designed for.
This half-day summit brings together tool maintainers, cloud engineers, Kubernetes operators, and DBAs to explore what a unified PostgreSQL observability strategy looks like across deployment platforms, and where the gaps and opportunities are.
Topics include:
- Unified observability when PostgreSQL runs on bare metal, in the cloud, and on Kubernetes simultaneously
- Monitoring AI/vector workloads (embedding ingestion, index build pressure, retrieval latency) alongside classical OLTP metrics
- MCP servers and agentic access patterns: what new telemetry do we need?
- The tooling landscape (pg_stat_statements, pgwatch, pganalyze, PMM, pg_statviz, OTel, Prometheus/Grafana): gaps and future directions
- Observability as a governance layer in regulated environments (DORA, RGPD, EU Data Act, ...)
Schedule
- 09:00: Opening (Adrien Obernesser)
- 09:05: pg_stat_statements: Scaling for the Future (Sami Imseih)
- 09:35: What’s New with Monitoring in PostgreSQL 19 (Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek)
- 09:50: Stack-based instrumentation for Postgres (Lukas Fittl)
- 10:05: Beyond Sampling: True Wait Event Tracing with pg_wait_tracer (Dmitry Fomin)
- 10:15: Break
- 10:30: Most PostgreSQL Outages Announce Themselves First: Leading vs Lagging Signals (Bindu B C)
- 11:00: pg_statviz: In-Database Time-Series Analysis, with an AI That Reads Its Own Charts (Jimmy Angelakos)
- 11:15: OpenTelemetry in the Postgres Protocol (Tristan Partin)
- 11:25: Panel (Moderated by Pavlo Golub)
- 12:00: Closing (Adrien Obernesser)
Event Organisers
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Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek
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Pavlo Golub
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Lukas Fittl
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Jimmy Angelakos
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Adrien Obernesser
While this community event is being hosted by PGConf.EU 2026 it is being organised by the team above, please contact them directly for any queries about the event.
