# How to setup RDS Postgres 16 on pmm-2.42.0

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**Category:** PMM 2.x\
**Created:** [March 26, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-setup-rds-postgres-16-on-pmm-2-42-0/37370 "2025-03-26T12:40:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vishwanath\_Kristapp1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vishwanath_kristapp1/32/20583_2.png) [@Vishwanath\_Kristapp1](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vishwanath_Kristapp1)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-setup-rds-postgres-16-on-pmm-2-42-0/37370/1 "2025-03-26T12:40:04Z")

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PMM 2.42.0 might not support a flag for SSL mode.

pmm-admin add postgresql --host=[rds.amazonaws.com](http://rds.amazonaws.com) --port=5432 --username=pmm --password=‘xxx’ --service-name=ep-south-1 after upgrade postgres14 to 16 no display on pmm url . I tried pmm-admin add postgresql “postgresql://pmm1:your\_password@ap-south-1:5432/postgres?sslmode=require” --service-name=ap-south-1. NO Use (error message - Connection check failed: pq: password authentication failed for user “postgres”.) we don’t want to upgrade pmm 2.42.0

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**Author:** ![lalit.choudhary](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/lalit.choudhary/32/51_2.png) [@lalit.choudhary](https://forums.percona.com/u/lalit.choudhary)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-setup-rds-postgres-16-on-pmm-2-42-0/37370/2 "2025-03-26T13:41:28Z")

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Hello @Vishwanath_Kristapp1

As this is a RDS instance you need to add it as describe here: [Amazon RDS - Percona Monitoring and Management](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management//2/setting-up/client/aws.html#adding-an-amazon-rds-postgresql-instance)

Here are required setting before adding RDS instance to PMM,

> **[Percona Monitoring and Management - Amazon RDS](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management//2/setting-up/client/aws.html#required-settings)**
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> Documentation

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**Author:** ![Vishwanath\_Kristapp1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/vishwanath_kristapp1/32/20583_2.png) [@Vishwanath\_Kristapp1](https://forums.percona.com/u/Vishwanath_Kristapp1)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-setup-rds-postgres-16-on-pmm-2-42-0/37370/3 "2025-03-27T10:58:48Z")

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stil unable config rds postgresql16 on pmm2.42 pls find the error logs

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