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Reduce Infra Cost

Many teams over-provision their database because of inefficient queries. pgpulse can help you shrink your database bill by making your database more efficient.

Efficiency vs. Capacity​

Before you upgrade to a more expensive instance, use pgpulse to:

  • Identify Over-provisioning: If your CPU and Memory never exceed 20%, you may be able to scale down.
  • Fix Inefficient Queries: One badly written query can make a server look "maxed out" when it's actually just poorly indexed.
  • Tune Bloat: Excessive bloat means you're paying for disk space and IO capacity that you don't actually need.

The Cost Reduction Playbook​

  1. Use pgpulse to find queries with high "IO per Call".
  2. Add indexes to reduce physical disk reads.
  3. Once disk and CPU usage drop, you can safely trial a smaller (and cheaper) instance size.