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Supabase Cloud - Use cases

Last updated 3 August 2026

Use Supabase Cloud connected KPIs to automate reporting in Elevale. Pair metrics with OKRs, dashboards on KPIs & Dashboards, and weekly business reviews.

Platform engineering

  • CPU, memory, and connection KPIs for capacity planning.

  • API 5xx and auth error rates for incident response.

  • Security advisor issue counts for compliance checkpoints.

API Traffic

  • Auth API Requests - Supabase Auth API request volume. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • Realtime API Requests - Supabase Realtime API request volume. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • REST API Requests - PostgREST API request volume. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • Storage API Requests - Supabase Storage API request volume. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • Total API Requests - Total API gateway requests in the sync interval. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

Database Health

  • Cache Hit Rate - Index cache hit rate percentage. Sync weekly or monthly for trends.

  • Performance Advisor Issues - Count of open performance advisor findings. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • Security Advisor Issues - Count of open security advisor findings. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • Slow Query Count - Number of queries with mean execution time above 1 second. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • Slowest Query Mean Time - Highest mean execution time among tracked queries in milliseconds. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

Infrastructure

  • Active Connections - Current number of active database backend connections. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • CPU Usage - Current average CPU usage percentage for the database. Sync weekly or monthly for trends.

  • Database Size - Total Postgres database size in bytes. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • Disk IO Usage - Disk I/O consumption relative to compute limits. Sync weekly or monthly for trends.

  • Disk Usage - Disk space used as a percentage of total disk capacity. Sync weekly or monthly for trends.

  • Memory Usage - Current RAM usage percentage for the database. Sync weekly or monthly for trends.

Service Health

  • API 5xx Errors - Count of API gateway 5xx responses in the sync window. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

  • Auth Error Count - Count of Auth API 4xx/5xx responses in the sync window. Sync daily or weekly for trends.

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