How PEM licensing works v9

PEM is intended to be used for monitoring and managing Postgres instances supported by EDB. As such, if you have a subscription that entitles you to use PEM, adding it to your stack to monitor such instances generally incurs no additional license costs.

Licensing rules

To use PEM, you must have an EDB Standard or Enterprise subscription.

Any Postgres servers you monitor using PEM (whether by installing the PEM Agent locally, through Remote Monitoring, or by making a client connection from the PEM web application) must be covered by an EDB Standard or Enterprise subscription.

Non-Postgres servers that do not otherwise consume cores (for example PGD Proxy nodes or machines running Barman) may be monitored by PEM. No additional cores are consumed by monitoring such servers with PEM.

The Postgres instance used as the PEM backend does not consume cores from your subscription. Likewise, no cores are consumed by any other PEM components. All these components are covered by your support agreement.

Examples

Adding PEM to a fully-supported environment

A customer with an Enterprise subscription for 32 cores has 8 x 4-core servers running EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS), thereby fully consuming their 32 cores. This customer may install PEM on a fifth server and use it to monitor their 8 EPAS servers. This requires no change to their subscription as the PEM server does not consume cores and the monitored EPAS instances are already fully covered.

Likewise, if this customer added a Barman server and connected it to PEM for monitoring, they would consume no additional cores.

Adding unsupported servers to PEM

A customer with a Standard subscription for 36 cores has PEM and 6 x 6-core servers running PostgreSQL covered by EDB support - thereby consuming their 36 cores as in the example above.

The customer also has 10 x 2-core PostgreSQL servers that are not covered by any EDB subscription. These servers must not be monitored by PEM as they are not covered by a Standard or Enterprise subscription. If the customer wishes to monitor these servers they must add a further 20 cores to their subscription.

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