Re: [PATCH] Expose checkpoint timestamp and duration in pg_stat_checkpointer

From: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <juanjo(dot)santamaria(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali(dot)work(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>, Michael Banck <mbanck(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, melanieplageman(at)gmail(dot)com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Expose checkpoint timestamp and duration in pg_stat_checkpointer
Date: 2025-11-26 17:23:08
Message-ID: CAC+AXB1Vco9jSmjZsdGupqiRMSDfTBu_H6r=FQhmZrUpwScjhA@mail.gmail.com
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El mié, 26 nov 2025, 11:14, Soumya S Murali <soumyamurali(dot)work(at)gmail(dot)com>
escribió:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM Álvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)kurilemu(dot)de>
> wrote:
>
> > In the past, I looked at a couple of monitoring dashboards offered by
> > cloud vendors, searching for anything valuable in terms of checkpoints.
> > What I saw was very disappointing -- mostly just "how many checkpoints
> > per minute", which is mostly flat zero with periodic spikes. Totally
> > useless. Does anybody know if some vendor has good charts for this?
> > Also, if we were to add this new proposed duration, how could these
> > charts improve?
>
> I will look into this in more depth. Will let you know if I find
> something concrete.
>

There is a "Checkpoints" section in the pgbadger reports, and that's
probably the most widely used tool.

Regards

Juan José Santamaría Flecha

>

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