pg_ash

From Postgres FM by Nikolay Samokhvalov and Michael Christofides

February 20, 2026 · 32 min · Episode 172

About this episode

Nik and Michael discuss pg_ash, a new tool for sampling and storing wait events from pg_stat_activity.

Nik and Michael discuss pg_ash — a new tool (not extension!) from Nik that samples and stores wait events from pg_stat_activity. Here are some links to things they mentioned: pg_ash https://github.com/NikolayS/pg_ash pg_wait_sampling https://github.com/postgrespro/pg_wait_sampling Amazon RDS performance insights https://aws.amazon.com/rds/performance-insights Our episode on wait events https://postgres.fm/episodes/wait-events pg-flight-recorder https://github.com/dventimisupabase/pg-flight-recorder pg_profile https://github.com/zubkov-andrei/pg_profile pg_cron https://github.com/citusdata/pg_cron ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork

People in this episode

Hosts: Nikolay Samokhvalov, Michael Christofides

Topics covered

pg_ash
wait events
performance insights
PostgreSQL tools
sampling

Keywords

pg_ash
wait events
PostgreSQL
performance insights
pg_wait_sampling
pg_cron
pg_profile

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: pg_ash, pg_wait_sampling, Amazon RDS, pg-flight-recorder, pg_profile, pg_cron, Postgres FM