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Monitor Neon with pgAdmin

pgAdmin is a database management tool for Postgres that supports various database tasks, including monitoring performance metrics. With pgAdmin, you can monitor real time activity for a variety of met...

pgAdmin is a database management tool for Postgres that supports various database tasks, including monitoring performance metrics.

PgAdmin monitoring dashboard

With pgAdmin, you can monitor real-time activity for a variety of metrics including:

  • Active sessions (Total, Active, and Idle)
  • Transactions per second (Transactions, Commits, Rollbacks)
  • Tuples in (Inserts, Updates, Deletes)
  • Tuples out (Fetched, Returned)
  • Block I/O for shared buffers (see Cache your data for information about Neon's compute cache)
  • Database activity (Sessions, Locks, Prepared Transactions)

Pre-compiled and configured installation packages for pgAdmin 4 are available for different desktop environments. For installation instructions, refer to the pgAdmin deployment documentation. Downloads can be found on the PgAdmin Downloads page.

How to connect to your database from pgAdmin

Section titled “How to connect to your database from pgAdmin”

Find the connection string for your database by clicking the Connect button in the Console nav.

Connection details modal

Enter your connection details as shown here.

Neon uses the default Postgres port: 5432

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