PGConf.Russia 2025

In 2024, Postgres Professional introduced pgpro-otel-collector, a new tool for gathering PostgreSQL telemetry data using OpenTelemetry technologies and standards.

In this talk, I’ll explain why we chose OpenTelemetry, showcase the features of pgpro-otel-collector, and demonstrate how it helps streamline telemetry collection within a monitoring infrastructure.

Covering all the key changes in PostgreSQL 18 during this talk would be quite a challenge — especially since the code freeze is set to happen just a week after the presentation. However, I’ll focus on what has already been finalized.

There are plenty of exciting updates in performance, monitoring, vacuuming (of course!), and beyond. As always, this talk is based on a series of articles reviewing the commit fests for PostgreSQL 18, published on Postgres Professional’s corporate blog on Habr.

There are many administrator consoles out there, ranging from the old-school DBeaver to the ubiquitous pgAdmin. However, we decided to create another one. Why?

In this talk, you’ll learn:

• How can a single installation manage tens of thousands of database instances.

• How many users can the console support.

• How can you inventory your infrastructure without losing your sanity.

• How do you integrate into an existing environment without starting from scratch.

• How to build a security model that earns the trust of leading banks and telecom operators.

• How can you get hands-on experience with all of this.

Poolers play a crucial role in PostgreSQL database operations. In this talk, we’ll discuss the challenges we faced when using and implementing existing poolers and the benefits we gained by developing our own pooler.