Managing Fly Postgres

Users & Roles

Add users and roles to control who can access what in the database.

Attach or Detach a Fly App

fly pg attach: Conveniently create a new database in a Fly Postgres cluster for a Fly app, and give the app credentials to connect.fly pg detach: Conveniently revoke an app’s access to a Fly Postgres database.

Monitor a Postgres App

Check on the health of your cluster, view logs, see which metrics are available for export.

Fork a volume from a Postgres app

Create a new Postgres app with the data from an existing Postgres app.

Backup, Restores, & Snapshots

Keep your data safe by backing it up and restoring it if the unthinkable happens.

Horizontal Scaling

Scale Postgres VMs

Scale Postgres instances up to handle more capacity

Scale to zero for Postgres Development projects

Learn about the scale to zero after one hour feature, and how to remove it, for your Postgres Development project.

Postgres Configuration Tuning

Learn how to tune your Postgres database to your needs.

Upgrade Postgres

Upgrade Fly instances with the latest version of Postgres.

Delete a Postgres Cluster

Check Provisioned Resources

See what platform resources you have provisioned for your Postgres cluster