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Monitoring Query Plan Utilization in PostgreSQL

Ahmed Gouda shows how to use pgwatch to track query plan utilization:

The PostgreSQL ecosystem just introduced a new pg_stat_plans extension. It’s similar to pg_stat_statements but it tracks aggregated statistics for query plans instead of SQL statements.

It exposes a SQL interface to query those statistics via the pg_stat_plans view, and in this post, I will explore how easy it is to integrate such extensions with pgwatch for those who want to improve/customize the metrics gathered from a monitored database.

Click through for the demo.

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