prometheus-community/postgres_exporter

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A PostgreSQL metric exporter for Prometheus

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Merged PRs (30d): 10

Dominant language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 9, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Code of conduct: Code of conduct
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176 open issues indexed

BDU:2025-02344 Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1391 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
Support safe config reload via SIGHUP and /-/reload Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1390 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
PostgresCollector emits no metrics at all — not even pg_scrape_collector_success=0 — when the per-scrape connection fails, while pg_up stays 1 Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1387 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
IAM Auth Module Open

enhancement multi-target

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1386 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 6, 2026
Document --datasource.* flags and mark env vars deprecated Open

documentation help wanted

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1374 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Add deprecation warnings for DATA_SOURCE_* and PG_EXPORTER_* env vars Open

go help wanted

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1373 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Add --datasource.* CLI flags to replace DATA_SOURCE_* env vars Open

go help wanted

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1372 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Deprecate environment variable configuration in favor of CLI flags Open

go help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1371 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Error opening connection to database / database \"postgres_exporter\" does not exist Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1365 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Improve documentation for website integration (PoC for exporter docs pattern) Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1363 · Opened Aug 10, 2026
Adapt new collector package for database scoped collectors Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1326 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 3, 2026
Autodiscovery broken with Unix domain sockets Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1316 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened May 22, 2026
Could you change metric "pg_settings_server_version_num" output to the ordinary format? Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1314 · Opened May 19, 2026
Bug: wal collector crashes on Aurora PostgreSQL Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1309 · Opened May 17, 2026
Please be more flexible regarding new statistics Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1289 · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Use recordings for postgres_mixin/alerts Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1278 · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Broken Alert in postgres_mixin PostgreSQLMultipleSlowQueries Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1277 · Opened Mar 31, 2026
Bug: Replication collector crashes on Aurora PostgreSQL Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1273 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 5, 2026
Shared, temp, local blocks and WAL metrics per query ID Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1270 · Opened Feb 27, 2026
0.18.1 Bad connection error Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1245 · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Add metric total_autovacuum_time Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1227 · Opened Dec 8, 2025
[BUG] Cannot run `healthcheck` with `wget` for `postgres-exporter` when running with TLS Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1225 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2025
Docs on use of flags in combination with config.file non-existent Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1214 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 28, 2025
collector.stat_statements.query_length does not truncate properly Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1211 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2025
--collector.stat_wal_receiver does not run if replication is setup without replication slot Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1193 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2025
memory usage: use of 100% of available RAM Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1189 · 11 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 28, 2025
Switch base image to distroless with static build to reduce vulnerabilities Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1187 · Opened Aug 25, 2025
[FEATURE]: Reload HTTP server when TLS certificates has been changed Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1182 · Opened Jul 19, 2025
Unable to create PostgresCollector when using collector.NewPostgresCollector Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1171 · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 20, 2025
Postgres_exporter does not support PostgreSQL 17 Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1161 · 3 comments · Opened May 28, 2025
Ability To Query Multiple Databases In a Postgres Cluster in a Dynamic Way Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1157 · 1 comment · 11 reactions · Opened May 14, 2025
Transactions ID wraparound Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1156 · 3 reactions · Opened May 5, 2025
Add custom queries.yaml for qonto's database monitoring framework as collectors Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1146 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 3, 2025
Feature of Health check for postgres Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1136 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 6, 2025
postgres_exporter is stuck and do not log out Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1135 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 6, 2025
Unable to get metrics from databases Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1130 · 11 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Feb 23, 2025
Metrics persist even when queries are no longer active Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1128 · Opened Feb 17, 2025
Missing pg_replication_origin Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1121 · Opened Feb 7, 2025
pg_up metric incorrectly remains 1 even when postgres_exporter fails to connect to the database Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1120 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 6, 2025
exporter failes if there is no db named like the user Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1117 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 16, 2025
Basebackup progress reporting metrics using pg_stat_progress_basebackup Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1113 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 15, 2025
level=ERROR messages in postgres_exporter.service status Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1109 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 2, 2025
Collector failed: pq: permission denied for function pg_ls_waldir on PG v16.6 Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1100 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 9, 2024
Support other unix ports Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1094 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 16, 2024
pg exporter will occur error when backup Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1091 · Opened Nov 14, 2024
Exporter does not reconnect to database if docker-daemon has restarted Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1084 · Opened Nov 5, 2024
Add metrics for pg_stat_io Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1078 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 25, 2024
The feature `Adding new metrics` exists in README but not implemented Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1069 · 7 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Sep 20, 2024
How to discover the databases on a server dynamically, now that `auto-discover-databases` is DEPRECARED? Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1068 · 4 comments · 21 reactions · Opened Sep 18, 2024
longRunningTransactionsQuery counts all running queries Open

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prometheus-community/postgres_exporter#1066 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 8, 2024

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