Connect your Postgres database to a Grafana Server

Create dashboards in Grafana using your Postgres database without any hassle

One of Grafana’s available monitoring dashboards — Obtained from Grafana.com

Grafana is a cutting-edge tool when it comes to monitoring your server, service, or database. It connects out-of-the-box with several data sources, it’s easily configurable even for novice users and surprisingly, it’s open-source so you can get in on the action for free if you want.

Postgres is one of the world’s most used databases, also open-source, free and provides great performance with scalability and support from the community. Those are some of the reasons why Postgres can be a great data source for your Grafana project, and this post shows in a very quick and objective way how you can connect those great tools to create a dashboard to visualize your data.

Obs: if you don’t have the need for a Grafana server in-house, check out a solution called Grafana Cloud, free for:

• 3 users
• 10k active metrics
• 50GB logs
• 14-day log retention

Getting right down to it, here’s how you connect your Postgres database in your instance of the Grafana Server:

First, download Grafana here and install it in your SO of choice. I’m going with…