{"slug": "pginsights-self-hosted-postgres-monitoring-that-never-leaves-your-network", "title": "Pginsights – self-hosted Postgres monitoring that never leaves your network", "summary": "Pginsights, a self-hosted PostgreSQL monitoring tool, launched with a local SQL copilot that runs entirely on the user's hardware, ensuring no data leaves the network. The tool offers health checks, slow-query analysis, bloat estimates, and replication lag monitoring, with no cloud backend, telemetry, or account required. It is free during early access, with pricing to be announced later.", "body_md": "PostgreSQL monitoring + a local SQL copilot.\n\nNothing leaves your network. Self-hosted, no cloud, no agents phoning home. Connect to any Postgres instance — RDS, Aurora, self-hosted — and get always-on health checks, slow-query analysis, bloat estimates, and replication lag. Plus an AI that writes SQL from English, running entirely on your hardware. No API key, no subscription, no account required.\n\nmacOS: unsigned app — right-click → **Open** to bypass Gatekeeper on first launch.\n\nFree — the Postgres health-check checklist\n\n          The 12 checks pginsights runs on every tick — table bloat and dead\n          tuples, transaction-ID wraparound risk, autovacuum lag, cache hit ratio,\n          connection saturation, inactive replication slots, replica replay lag, and\n          more — each with the exact query to run it by hand.\n          [Read it now →](/postgres-health-checklist.html)\n          Or leave your email and we’ll send it over, plus release announcements.\n        \n\nSee it in action\n\nDashboard\n\nWhy pginsights\n\nBridges raw system metrics and AI-driven database intelligence. Health checks, query analysis, and SQL generation in one self-hosted tool.\n\nTotal data residency for security-conscious and air-gapped environments. No telemetry, no cloud backend, no account required.\n\nNo third-party SaaS agents or external data hosting. The monitoring collector, the dashboard, and the local AI model all run on hardware you control.\n\nZero external connectivity required for operation. Every Postgres connection runs read-only. Credentials never leave `instances.json` on your filesystem.\n\nMonitoring\n\n          pginsights connects only to `pg_stat_*` catalog views — read-only,\n          no schema changes, no extensions beyond `pg_stat_statements`.\n          Health checks fire on every collector tick and surface findings on the\n          Alerts tab, with webhook, Slack, and email delivery built in.\n        \n\n`max_connections`\nPrivacy & control\n\npginsights has no cloud backend, no telemetry, and no account system. Run it on your laptop, a bastion host, or behind an air gap. Everything is stored in a local SQLite file you own outright.\n\nConnection strings live in `instances.json`. Metric history lives in `timeseries.db`. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.\n\nEvery Postgres connection runs with `SET default_transaction_read_only = on`. pginsights cannot write to your database.\n\nThe SQL Author runs a quantized model on your hardware. Your English prompts and schema never leave your machine.\n\nAny Postgres-compatible instance — cloud or on-prem. Bundles ship with a complete Node runtime. No internet required to run.\n\nPricing\n\nPricing may change before general availability — early access signups get it locked in.\n\nDownload\n\nx86-64 · Ubuntu 22+, Debian 11+, RHEL 9+", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pginsights-self-hosted-postgres-monitoring-that-never-leaves-your-network", "canonical_source": "https://pginsights.dev", "published_at": "2026-09-07 14:28:13+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-07 14:56:43.690409+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["pginsights", "PostgreSQL", "RDS", "Aurora", "SQLite", "Node"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pginsights-self-hosted-postgres-monitoring-that-never-leaves-your-network", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pginsights-self-hosted-postgres-monitoring-that-never-leaves-your-network.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pginsights-self-hosted-postgres-monitoring-that-never-leaves-your-network.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/pginsights-self-hosted-postgres-monitoring-that-never-leaves-your-network.jsonld"}}