A health check playbook for your Postgres database https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2019/03/29/health-checks-for-your-postgres-database https://github.com/heroku/heroku-pg-extras/tree/master/commands

cache hit ratio.sql

SELECT 
  sum(heap_blks_read) as heap_read,
  sum(heap_blks_hit)  as heap_hit,
  sum(heap_blks_hit) / (sum(heap_blks_hit) + sum(heap_blks_read)) as ratio
FROM 
  pg_statio_user_tables;

consumer queries.sql

SELECT query, 
       calls, 
       total_time, 
       total_time / calls as time_per, 
       stddev_time, 
       rows, 
       rows / calls as rows_per,
       100.0 * shared_blks_hit / nullif(shared_blks_hit + shared_blks_read, 0) AS hit_percent
FROM pg_stat_statements
WHERE query not similar to '%pg_%'
and calls > 500
--ORDER BY calls
--ORDER BY total_time
order by time_per
--ORDER BY rows_per
DESC LIMIT 20;

dead tuples.sql

WITH constants AS (
  SELECT current_setting('block_size')::numeric AS bs, 23 AS hdr, 4 AS ma
), bloat_info AS (
  SELECT
    ma,bs,schemaname,tablename,
    (datawidth+(hdr+ma-(case when hdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE hdr%ma END)))::numeric AS datahdr,
    (maxfracsum*(nullhdr+ma-(case when nullhdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE nullhdr%ma END))) AS nullhdr2
  FROM (
    SELECT
      schemaname, tablename, hdr, ma, bs,
      SUM((1-null_frac)*avg_width) AS datawidth,
      MAX(null_frac) AS maxfracsum,
      hdr+(
        SELECT 1+count(*)/8
        FROM pg_stats s2
        WHERE null_frac<>0 AND s2.schemaname = s.schemaname AND s2.tablename = s.tablename
      ) AS nullhdr
    FROM pg_stats s, constants
    GROUP BY 1,2,3,4,5
  ) AS foo
), table_bloat AS (
  SELECT
    schemaname, tablename, cc.relpages, bs,
    CEIL((cc.reltuples*((datahdr+ma-
      (CASE WHEN datahdr%ma=0 THEN ma ELSE datahdr%ma END))+nullhdr2+4))/(bs-20::float)) AS otta
  FROM bloat_info
  JOIN pg_class cc ON cc.relname = bloat_info.tablename
  JOIN pg_namespace nn ON cc.relnamespace = nn.oid AND nn.nspname = bloat_info.schemaname AND nn.nspname <> 'information_schema'
), index_bloat AS (
  SELECT
    schemaname, tablename, bs,
    COALESCE(c2.relname,'?') AS iname, COALESCE(c2.reltuples,0) AS ituples, COALESCE(c2.relpages,0) AS ipages,
    COALESCE(CEIL((c2.reltuples*(datahdr-12))/(bs-20::float)),0) AS iotta -- very rough approximation, assumes all cols
  FROM bloat_info
  JOIN pg_class cc ON cc.relname = bloat_info.tablename
  JOIN pg_namespace nn ON cc.relnamespace = nn.oid AND nn.nspname = bloat_info.schemaname AND nn.nspname <> 'information_schema'
  JOIN pg_index i ON indrelid = cc.oid
  JOIN pg_class c2 ON c2.oid = i.indexrelid
)
SELECT
  type, schemaname, object_name, bloat, pg_size_pretty(raw_waste) as waste
FROM
(SELECT
  'table' as type,
  schemaname,
  tablename as object_name,
  ROUND(CASE WHEN otta=0 THEN 0.0 ELSE table_bloat.relpages/otta::numeric END,1) AS bloat,
  CASE WHEN relpages < otta THEN '0' ELSE (bs*(table_bloat.relpages-otta)::bigint)::bigint END AS raw_waste
FROM
  table_bloat
    UNION
SELECT
  'index' as type,
  schemaname,
  tablename || '::' || iname as object_name,
  ROUND(CASE WHEN iotta=0 OR ipages=0 THEN 0.0 ELSE ipages/iotta::numeric END,1) AS bloat,
  CASE WHEN ipages < iotta THEN '0' ELSE (bs*(ipages-iotta))::bigint END AS raw_waste
FROM
  index_bloat) bloat_summary
ORDER BY raw_waste DESC, bloat DESC

unused indexes.sql

SELECT
  schemaname || '.' || relname AS table,
  indexrelname AS index,
  pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(i.indexrelid)) AS index_size,
  idx_scan as index_scans
FROM pg_stat_user_indexes ui
JOIN pg_index i ON ui.indexrelid = i.indexrelid
WHERE NOT indisunique AND idx_scan < 50 AND pg_relation_size(relid) > 5 * 8192
ORDER BY pg_relation_size(i.indexrelid) / nullif(idx_scan, 0) DESC NULLS FIRST,
pg_relation_size(i.indexrelid) DESC;