pgBadger 13.3 on a VPS: PostgreSQL Log Analysis
pgBadger 13.3 landed on November 3, 2026,[1] and it is one of those quiet maintenance releases that is worth paying attention to if you run PostgreSQL on your own VPS. Why now, specifically? PostgreSQL 19 general availability is planned for November 19, 2026,[4] which gives you a two-week window to do something most people skip before a major upgrade: look at what your current instance is actually doing. The logs PostgreSQL already writes are the highest-signal dataset on your box - no agents, no extra daemon, just the truth about slow queries, errors and disk spills. pgBadger turns that raw log stream into a single self-contained HTML report you can open in a browser. This guide covers the full loop on Debian or Ubuntu: what is new in 13.3, installing it, configuring PostgreSQL to log what pgBadger needs, running reports by hand and by cron, and reading the sections that matter. …
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