# Ready only user to operate PMM for Postgresql

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/ready-only-user-to-operate-pmm-for-postgresql/36517>\
**Category:** PostgreSQL\
**Created:** [February 4, 2025, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/ready-only-user-to-operate-pmm-for-postgresql/36517 "2025-02-04T10:00:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![siddharth0204](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@siddharth0204](https://forums.percona.com/u/siddharth0204)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/ready-only-user-to-operate-pmm-for-postgresql/36517/1 "2025-02-04T10:00:13Z")

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hello,

We are using PMM for monitoring our Postgresql Production instances.  
WE would like to know if it should be enough to create read only user to login to PMM and provide necessary grants like pg\_monitor?  
Documentation asks us to create a Super User and it is conflicting with our compliance

Please help us understand

Thanks and Regards,  
Siddharth

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**Author:** ![nurlan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/nurlan/32/1523_2.png) [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/ready-only-user-to-operate-pmm-for-postgresql/36517/2 "2025-02-04T13:47:33Z")

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Hi, theoretically it should be ok.  
Just some features like explain, advisors and pt-postgres-summary might not work.