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/pgbadger
• An example pgBadger report https://pgbadger.darold.net/examples/sample.html 
• pg_stat_statements https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.html
• Azure Guide https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/how-to-generate-pgbadger-report-from-azure-database-for/ba-p/3756328
• Google Cloud SQL guide https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/guide-to-the-database-observability-with-cloud-sql
• RDS 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 

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Postgres FM is produced by:

• Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard
• Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With special thanks to:

• Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork