Chapter 11. What’s New in PPEM 2.4

Release date: 2025-12-23

For migration instructions and recommendations, refer to Chapter 63.

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 58.1, Section 58.4.1, and Section 58.5.1.

  • 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 60.4.

  • 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 57.3.4 and Section 57.3.6.

  • Alerts and triggers.

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

    For more information, refer to Section 45.6, Section 45.4, and Section 45.8.

  • 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 46.2.2 and Section 46.2.

  • 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 32 and Section 32.1.4.

  • 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 33.7.

  • 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 57.2.1.

  • Containerized environments.

    Added support for PPEM installation in containerized environments.

    For more information, refer to Chapter 21.

  • 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.