Summary: The Active Queries view in the Neon Console displays up to 100 currently running queries for a selected branch, compute, and database. It is backed by the pg_stat_activity Postgres system view. Inspect live query activity without writing SQL, or query pg_stat_activity directly via the Neon SQL Editor or psql for custom analysis. Completed queries do not persist in the view, and no active queries appear while a compute is scaled to zero.

View and analyze running queries in your database

You can monitor active queries for your Neon project from the Monitoring page in the Neon Console.

1. In the Neon Console, select a project.
2. Go to Monitoring.
3. Select the Active queries tab.

The Active queries view displays up to 100 currently running queries for the selected Branch, Compute, and Database. Use the Refresh button to update the list with the latest active queries.

The Active queries view is powered by the pg_stat_activity Postgres system view, which is available in Neon by default. To run custom queries against the data collected by pg_stat_activity, you can use the Neon SQL Editor or any SQL client, such as psql.

For details on pg_stat_activity, see pg_stat_activity in the PostgreSQL documentation.

Note: active queries retention

In Neon, the pg_stat_activity system view only holds data on currently running queries. Once a query completes, it no longer appears in the Active queries view. If your Neon compute scales down to zero due to inactivity, there will be no active queries until a new connection is established and a query is run.

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