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# PostgresSQL Server Exporter
# PostgreSQL Server Exporter

Prometheus exporter for PostgresSQL server metrics.
Supported Postgres versions: 9.1 and up.
Prometheus exporter for PostgreSQL server metrics.
Supported PostgreSQL versions: 9.1 and up.

## Quick Start
This package is available for Docker:
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* `web.telemetry-path`
Path under which to expose metrics.

### Setting the Postgres server's data source name
### Setting the PostgreSQL server's data source name

The PostgresSQL server's [data source name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_source_name)
The PostgreSQL server's [data source name](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_source_name)
must be set via the `DATA_SOURCE_NAME` environment variable.

For running it locally on a default Debian/Ubuntu install, this will work (transpose to init script as appropriate):
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The exporter will attempt to dynamically export additional metrics if they are added in the
future, but they will be marked as "untyped". Additional metric maps can be easily created
from Postgres documentation by copying the tables and using the following Python snippet:
from PostgreSQL documentation by copying the tables and using the following Python snippet:

```python
x = """tab separated raw text of a documentation table"""
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