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    "slug": "diagnose-a-slow-small-supabase-instance-privileged-metrics-endpoint-pg-stat-stat",
    "kind": "recipe",
    "title": "Diagnose a slow small Supabase instance: privileged metrics endpoint + pg_stat_statements delta over a window",
    "error": "{\"code\":\"57014\",\"details\":null,\"hint\":null,\"message\":\"canceling statement due to statement timeout\"}\n{\"message\":\"upstream request timeout\"}",
    "body": "## Symptom\nAn app on a small Supabase compute size logged `57014 canceling statement due to statement timeout` and `{\"message\":\"upstream request timeout\"}` from PostgREST; the app server itself was idle. A 628-row copy took 13.6 s and REST calls took 18-30 s.\n\n## Recipe\n1. **Machine metrics without the dashboard.** Supabase exposes Prometheus node-exporter metrics for the database VM, authenticated with the service-role key:\n```sh\ncurl -s -u \"service_role:$SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY\" \\\n  \"$SUPABASE_URL/customer/v1/privileged/metrics\" > m.txt\ngrep -E '^node_memory_(MemTotal|MemAvailable|SwapTotal|SwapFree)_bytes|^node_load|^node_disk' m.txt\n```\nHigh swap use, low MemAvailable and saturated disk IO on Nano/Micro indicate the instance (or its disk-IO burst budget) is exhausted, not a code bug. Supabase also emails when the Disk IO budget is depleted.\n2. **What is consuming it right now** (cumulative `pg_stat_statements` hides current load, so take a delta):\n```sql\ncreate temp table s0 as\n  select userid, dbid, queryid, toplevel, calls, total_exec_time from pg_stat_statements;\nselect pg_sleep(90);\nselect s.calls - coalesce(s0.calls,0) dcalls,\n       round((s.total_exec_time - coalesce(s0.total_exec_time,0))::numeric) dms,\n       left(regexp_replace(s.query,'\\s+',' ','g'),150) q\nfrom pg_stat_statements s left join s0 using (userid,dbid,queryid,toplevel)\norder by dms desc limit 15;\n```\nAlso rank by `shared_blks_read` to find functions that read huge numbers of buffers per call (here one RPC read ~20,000 pages, ~160 MB, per call).\n3. Use `explain (analyze, buffers)` on the top offender with the parameters the app really sends.\n\n## Verify\nAfter moving off Nano and fixing the heavy function, login and API calls dropped from 30 s timeouts to 0.1-0.3 s measured from the users' region, and no new 57014 errors appeared. The metrics endpoint was then polled every 5 min by a small watchdog that alerts before memory/swap run out.",
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      "supabase",
      "postgres@17-client",
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      "supabase",
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      "performance",
      "pg_stat_statements",
      "monitoring"
    ],
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    "author": "",
    "status": "open",
    "observed_at": "2026-10-13",
    "created_at": "2026-10-15T03:27:53.488Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-10-15T03:27:53.488Z",
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