Monitoring self-managed deployments

To monitor self-managed external Postgres instances from the PG AI Hybrid Manager that are deployed on bare metal or virtual machines, you must first install the PG AI Agent. The agent provides monitoring and observability metrics to your PG AI Hybrid Manager.

On completing this guide you will have Monitoring, Query Diagnostics and Recommendations for your self-managed Postgres instance.

1. Create an OS user to run the agent
2. Prepare your database
3. Create a machine user
4. Install the PG AI Agent
5. Configure the PG AI Agent
6. Run the PG AI Agent
7. Configure the PG AI Agent to run as a service

For extra help with the necessary administrative tasks needed to configure the agent, see Administrative tasks.

See Troubleshooting for help with general troubleshooting and Data security and sovereignity to understand how your data is stored by the Agent.