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Version: 6.2

Database Observability: Capacity and Growth

The Database Observability: Capacity and Growth dashboard shows which databases and objects are growing, how WAL volume changes, and which tables autovacuum cannot keep up with.

Who it is for: database administrators, operations engineers, and capacity planners.

Data sources: db_metrics*, db_logs*.

Main Sections​

1. Capacity Summary​

Shows key growth metrics:

  • current database size, growth over the selected period, and a forecast for seven days ahead
  • XID consumption and the highest proportion of dead tuples
  • trends in database size, WAL, and XID

Capacity summary

2. Databases​

Shows the size, change in size, and growth forecast for each database in the selected cluster.

Database size and growth

3. Tables​

Shows tables, their size, and the proportion of dead tuples. From the Tables table, you can navigate to audit events for a selected object.

Table size and status

4. Autovacuum and Indexes​

Shows autovacuum activity and indexes that were not accessed during the selected period.

Autovacuum and indexes

PanelDestination
Tables tableDatabase Observability: Access Audit