# Postgres is slow or costs too much

Prompts to start with when a PostgreSQL database shows this problem.

- [Find the true sources of database waste](https://atlasscope.dev/prompts/find-the-true-sources-of-database-waste): The bill is high, CPU or disk usage is high, storage keeps growing, or you suspect bloat.
- [What will become expensive as the database grows?](https://atlasscope.dev/prompts/what-will-become-expensive-as-the-database-grows): Fact or history tables are growing fast, or you need to plan capacity.
- [Queries that grow badly](https://atlasscope.dev/prompts/queries-that-grow-badly): Finds the database queries that will be the first to slow down as tables grow.

Source: https://atlasscope.dev/fix/postgres-is-slow-or-costs-too-much