Chapter 12. What’s New in PPEM 2.4

Release date: 2025-12-23

For migration instructions and recommendations, refer to Chapter 65.

PPEM 2.4 introduces the following functional upgrades:

  • Backups.

    Added the dashboard page that provides an overview of backups and related tasks.

    Added the ability to specify logging levels when creating a backup or a backup schedule.

    For more information, refer to Section 59.1, Section 59.4.1, and Section 59.5.1.

  • User authentication.

    Added support of OpenID Connect (OIDC) for user authentication.

    For more information, refer to Section 7.6.

  • Query plan visualization.

    Added the ability to share query plans with other users.

    For more information, refer to Section 61.4.

  • Operation management.

    Added the ability to view steps of a specific operation as well as view details of these steps and restart them.

    For more information, refer to Section 58.3.4 and Section 58.3.6.

  • Alerts and triggers.

    Added the ability to edit alerts as well as view and clear the alert history.

    For more information, refer to Section 46.6, Section 46.4, and Section 46.8.

  • Wait event profile.

    Added the ability to edit configuration parameters of the wait event profile and wait history.

    Improved the user interface page by expanding the wait event tooltip information, changing the time format, and adding session and history pagination.

    For more information, refer to Section 47.2.2 and Section 47.2.

  • Password management.

    Added the requirement to change the password after the first log-in.

    Added the ability to reset the user password.

    For more information, refer to Chapter 33 and Section 33.1.4.

  • Configuration presets management.

    Added the ability to remove one or more configuration presets applied to a particular instance from the instance page.

    Added the ability to apply presets to multiple instances from the configuration presets page.

    For more information, refer to Section 34.7.

  • Task console.

    Added the ability to view the task with the task object as well as move to the object page from the schedule table.

    For more information, refer to Section 58.2.1.

  • Containerized environments.

    Added support for PPEM installation in containerized environments.

    For more information, refer to Chapter 22.

  • CPU usage monitoring.

    Added the accounting page that provides information about instances and CPU cores used by them during the specified period. Reports on CPU usage can be downloaded in the CSV format.

    This functionality is available only for the Postgres Pro Enterprise edition with the pgpro_cpumeter extension enabled.