PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2026

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, ...)

We are now accepting proposals for PostgreSQL Observability Summit at PGConf.EU 2026!

The submission deadline is 2026-06-01T23:59:59 at 24:00 in Valencia, Spain. Selected speakers will be notified before 2026-07-03.

We plan to use the pgconf.eu conference system for submissions, aligned with the general Call for Papers timeline. We will offer two talk formats: short lightning talks (10 minutes) and deeper-dive talks (25 minutes), to allow both breadth and depth on key topics. The organizing team will review and select proposals.

Please submit your proposal under the PostgreSQL Observability Summit track.