The document provides an overview of the EDB Postgres platform, including its management, monitoring capabilities, and recent features. EDB is a leader in open-source Postgres software, serving over 4,000 customers globally, including notable enterprises from the Fortune 500. Key aspects include the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager, which offers tools for monitoring, tuning, and diagnostics of Postgres databases.

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Managing Postgres
at Scale
Dave Page, Vice President and Chief
Software Architect, Tools & Installers
Marc Linster, SVP, Product Development
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AGENDA
• Who is EDB?
• EDB Postgres Platform
• EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager
• Demo: Probes, Alerts and Tuning Wizard
• Supported Platforms
• Q&A

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WHO IS EDB?
The world leader in
open-source based Postgres
software and services.
• Founded in 2004
• Recognized RDBMS leader by:
• Gartner
• Forrester
• Customer base > 4000
• 300+ employees
• Offices worldwide
• PostgreSQL community leader
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OVER 4,000 CUSTOMERS
U.S Customers
EMEA Customers APAC Customers
92of the Fortune 500
311of the Forbes
Global 2000
Our customers benefit from the most reliable, high-performing, flexible, open,
and cost-effective data management platform available.

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ONLY OPEN SOURCE
BASED RDBMS IN
GARTNER MQ
EDB Recognized
6 Years In A Row on
Gartner’s Magic
Quadrant

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EDB OPEN SOURCE LEADERSHIP
Named EDB open source committers and contributors
CONTRIBUTORS
Akshay Joshi Amul Sul Ashesh Vashi Ashutosh
Sharma
Dilip Kumar Jeevan Ladhe Mithun Cy M. Usama
Rushabh
Lathia
MAJOR CONTRIBUTORSCORE TEAM
Andres Freund Devrim Gündüz
Thomas Munro
Amit Kapila
Bruce Momjian
Dave Page
Robert Haas
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EDB POSTGRES PLATFORM

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EDB POSTGRES ADVANCED SERVER
Enterprise
capabilities add to
the strengths of
community
PostgreSQL
• Items in GREY are available
in Community PostgreSQL
• Items in RED are proprietary
additions in Advanced Server

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EDB POSTGRES PLATFORM
Today’s Focus

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POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Monitor EDB
Postgres
Advanced
Server,
PostgreSQL
and the
underlying
system

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Fully managed servers
• Have a locally installed agent (must be inside the firewall)
• Monitor the Operating System and Hardware as well as Postgres
• Can reconfigure the server, monitor logs, restart processes etc.
• Deploy software (Windows)
• Remote managed servers
• Use when an agent cannot be installed, or when the server is outside the firewall.
• Monitors the database server only.
• Unmanaged servers
• Ad-hoc monitoring only
• Manipulating schema, run queries, procedural language debugger etc.

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• 60 pre-defined
probes collect
nearly 400
metrics

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• 239 pre-defined alert templates

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Create your own
probes, metrics and
alerts for custom
monitoring
requirements

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Use pre-built
dashboards, or
create your own
using standard
or custom charts
and graphs with
optional
predictive
analysis

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Send alerts via
email, SNMP or
integrate with
Nagios

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Manage and
monitor EDB Ark
And EDB
Failover
Manager

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Wizards help
with bulk
tuning, log
and auditing
configuration

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• SQL Profiler
monitors & analyses
workloads in
realtime

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Performance
Diagnostics
visualise and
analyse wait
state
performance
data from
EPAS 11
(PEM 7.6)

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER
• Includes all
pgAdmin 4
functionality

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QUICK SURVEY
• What tools do you use to manage
your Postgres databases today?
• What tools do you use to monitor
your Postgres databases today?

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NEW FEATURE EXAMPLES
In versions 7.6 & 7.7

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PGADMIN FEATURES
• Added a “Scratch Pad” to the Query Tool to hold text
snippets whilst editing
• Added Commit and Rollback buttons to the Query Tool
for ease of use (particularly with Auto Commit turned
off)
• Allow double-clicking of the result grid header dividers
to auto-size to the content
• Automatically expand child nodes in the treeview when
expanding the parent, if there is only one

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EDB POSTGRES ENTERPRISE MANAGER FEATURES
• New UI design
• Modern and clean look and feel
• Being implemented across the EDB product suite
• Performance Diagnostics with EPAS 11+
• Debian/Ubuntu native packages
• Add breadcrumbs to the Dashboards, with inline
searching
• Allow downloading of the query plan from the SQL
Profiler

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PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTICS

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PERFORMANCE DIAGNOSTICS

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DEMO
Probes, Alerts and Tuning Wizard

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PLATFORMS
• Installer:
• Windows
• RPM:
• CentOS/RHEL/OEL 6 & 7
• SLES 12 (SLES 15 TBD)
• DEB:
• Debian Stretch
• Ubuntu 18.04

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QUESTIONS

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