The Dashboard Overview
The Overview page shows you information about your IBM Cloud® Databases for PostgreSQL deployment. The overview includes essential identifying information.
Overview
Type
The type of database that is offered by the service, and the database version that your service uses.
ID
The ID is a CRN (Cloud Resource Name) that uniquely identifies the database instance. The CRN is used to refer to the database in the API and can be used with the CLI. The Overview pane shows details of your service.
Recent Tasks
Each time that you make administrative changes to your service (such as scaling, or taking a manual backup), a task starts up. The Recent Tasks panel shows the task name and progress bar for any running tasks, and a list of the most recently completed tasks. Depending on how busy your deployment is, successful tasks can be shown for 24 - 48 hours. Unsuccessful tasks can show for 7 - 8 days. Tasks can also be retrieved from the Cloud Databases API and CLI plug-in. A historical record of tasks from any time period is available through the IBM Cloud® Activity Tracker integration.
Endpoints
The Endpoints pane within the Overview pane contains connection strings for your instance. Each tab contains connection information that is tailored to the type of connection or the protocol that uses it. Basic information includes hostname, port, the TLS self-signed certificate, TLS/SSL parameters, and the default database of your instance.
Reference tables for the different connection types are available on the Getting Credentials and Connection Strings page.
Connection strings reflect whether your instance uses public endpoints, private endpoints, or both. You can configure which endpoints are available on your deployment. For more information, see the Service Endpoints Integration page.
You can manage your Databases for PostgreSQL service through the Cloud Databases API. This panel provides the essential information for using the API. For more information about the Cloud Databases API, see the API reference page.
Resources
The resources tab contains information and configuration options on the size and resource usage of your deployment. You can
Read Replicas
The Read Replicas tab contains the UI for details for the read replicas for your deployment. Updates to replication leaders are asynchronously copied to their read-only replicas. For more information, see Configuring Read-only Replicas.
Backups
The Backups tab is the UI for managing your instance's backups. Available backups are listed with their timestamps. Click a backup to grab its ID or to restore it into a new deployment. For more information, see Managing Backups.
Observability
The Observability tab provides access to the IBM Cloud Monitoring, logging, and event tracking integrations available for your deployment.
Settings
The Settings tab contains the UI for many of the tunable settings for your deployment. You can
- view encryption details. Encryption at rest is enabled for all Databases for PostgreSQL deployments. If you brought your own encryption key from Key Protect, Settings provides a link to your Key Protect instance, and the Encryption Key field has the name of the key.
- Change the Admin password
- Implement or modify an IP allowlist
Service Credentials
You can generate a new set of credentials for cases where you want to manually connect an app or external consumer to an IBM Cloud service. For more information, see Adding and viewing Credentials.
Connections
Shows connected resources. Use Create connection to bind this service to another resource.
View docs
The View docs link from the Actions drop list opens the main documentation page for Databases for PostgreSQL in a new tab.