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title: "Verify telemetry status | Grafana Labs"
description: "Open the Database Observability Telemetry status tab and verify that all status checks pass for your PostgreSQL instance."
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# Verify telemetry status

Now that Alloy is running, verify that telemetry is flowing to Grafana Cloud. The **Telemetry status** tab on the Database Observability Configuration page runs automated checks against each database instance and highlights anything that needs attention.

To check your PostgreSQL instance’s telemetry status, complete the following steps:

1. Open **Observability** > **Database** > **Configuration**.
2. Select the **Telemetry status** tab.
3. Select your PostgreSQL instance from the **Instance** dropdown. The instance name is the **Instance label** you set in the wizard, or `host:port` from your connection string if you left it empty.
   
   Telemetry can take a few minutes to appear after Alloy starts. If the instance isn’t listed yet, wait and refresh. It appears only once Alloy is sending data.
4. The page displays status check tiles for your instance. Each tile validates a specific requirement, such as the PostgreSQL and Alloy versions, the `pg_stat_statements` extension, `compute_query_id`, `track_activity_query_size`, privileges, and metric and log labels:
   
   Expand table
   
   | Status          | Meaning                  |
   |-----------------|--------------------------|
   | Green checkmark | Configuration is correct |
   | Red warning     | Action required          |
   | Blue “Checking” | Query in progress        |
   
   Verify that all checks show green checkmarks. Use the **Needs attention** filter to show only failing checks, and click a failed tile to open its troubleshooting guidance.

You’ve confirmed that your PostgreSQL instance is sending telemetry to Grafana Cloud and that its configuration passes the Database Observability checks.

In the next milestone, you’ll explore your query performance data.

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