PoWA 5 is out!

Taipei, Taiwan - November 10th, 2024

The PoWA team is proud to announce the release of PoWA 5.0.0.

# PoWA 5 is out

PoWA (PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer) is a performance tool, compatible with all
supported PostgreSQL versions. It allows to collect and aggregate metrics
gathered from multiple PostgreSQL instances using various extensions covering
all parts of PostgreSQL and provides real-time charts and graphs to help
monitor and tune your servers. It also suggest optimizations, like global or
per-query index suggestions, to easily improve performances.

## What's new

The version 5 is a new major version. It comes with a brand new version of
[powa-web](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-web), the dedicated UI, with an
improved looks and user experience. This new version also allows you to
dynamically perform actions, such as performing a metrics snapshots on a
specific server or refreshing the catalog copies.

It also brings a lot of new datasources, for general and performance monitoring
such as:

- replication and replication slots stat views
- background writer and checkpointer stat views
- new IO stat view (pg16+)
- SLRU and WAL stat views
- and a lot more

And introduce snapshot of per-database metrics, such as:

- historical copies of various catalogs
- tables and indexes statistics
- user function statistics

## Credits

Thank to the users who reported bugs or submitted patches, they are all cited
in the CHANGELOG files of
[powa-archivist](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md)
and [powa-web](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-web/blob/master/CHANGELOG)
projects.

PoWA is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome.
You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches following the
documentation at
[powa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html](https://powa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contributing.html).

## Links

For [powa-archivist](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist), the core extension:

- Documentation: [powa.readthedocs.io](https://powa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
- Container images: [hub.docker.com/u/powateam](https://hub.docker.com/u/powateam)
- Archive download: [github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/releases](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/releases)
- Bug tracker: [github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/issues](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-archivist/issues)

For [powa-web](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-web), the dedicated UI:

- Documentation: [powa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/components/powa-web/index.html](https://powa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/components/powa-web/index.html)
- Container images: [https://hub.docker.com/r/powateam/powa-web](https://hub.docker.com/u/powateam/powa-web)
- Archive download: [github.com/powa-team/powa-web/releases](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-web/releases)
- Bug tracker: [github.com/powa-team/powa-web/issues](https://github.com/powa-team/powa-web/issues)