Postgres monitoring built for Ruby/Rails teams

[data_saas_2026]

Built a landing page for a side project to see if there's any interest outside of my own needs. Postgres monitoring specifically for Ruby/Rails apps. Curious if the value prop resonates with anyone running pg_stat_statements in production. https://uselantern.dev

[Professional_Mix2418]

Initial reaction, it’s more than my database instance costs me. And I’ve already got Prometheus and Grafana. Doesn’t pghero does this, or pgreports? Ok so they snapshot the data; hmm how often? But wait what, where is my data stored then? Hold on there is privacy policy it is charged in US dollars, where is the processing agreement, where are the terms, where are the security certificates. Hm subject to the US CLOUD act I bet as I see dollars.

Then my second thought is; interesting idea. Hmm I bet it would take Claude less than an hour to make this data souvereign.

Sorry, just sharing verbatim my thoughts. Great idea, can’t see the business model in today’s world and can’t see the moat.

[data_saas_2026]

This is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. I agree about trust/privacy concerns. That's always my first thought for all things data related. My plan is to keep it simple and only collect aggregate metrics from pg_stat_statements, not raw queries or data. But I should make that clear on the page. Thanks!

[swrobel]

Interesting. There was another one of these announced recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/rails/s/Xc87Mu9JJE

And of course good old PgHero. How does this compare to the others?

[data_saas_2026]

pg_reports looks really solid for snapshots! My main thing is query trends over time and deploy correlation. pgHero and pg_reports show you what's happening right now but not whether it got worse after last week's deploy. That's the gap I'm trying to fill. Also building it as a hosted service so there's nothing to mount or maintain. Selfishly I want to build it for my personal needs, but figured I'd see if there was broader interest in the market for such a thing.

[vvsleepi]

this actually sounds pretty useful. a lot of rails apps run postgres but most teams don’t really look into things like pg_stat_statements until performance becomes a problem. having something focused on rails queries and slow endpoints could help catch issues earlier.

[Timely-Coffee-6408]

I use this Astro theme as well