PowerFlex: Error INVALID_POSTGRES_INSTANCE_ROLE After 4.8 PFMP upgrade
Summary: This article explains the steps to clear the cosmetic alert INVALID_POSTGRES_INSTANCE_ROLE after upgrade from 4.6 to 4.8
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Symptoms
After upgrade from 4.6 to 4.8 the below alerts is triggered and is not cleared by acknowledging the alert

Cause
these are stale alerts from the old CrunchyData PGO database instances (postgres-ha-cmo1-*) that were replaced by CloudNativePG (postgres-ha-cnpg-*) during the 4.8 upgrade.
The old pods and PVCs are gone, the new CNPG cluster is healthy, but the health monitoring configmap still references the old instances, which is why the alerts keep re-firing.
Resolution
- Check DB health State
delladmin@mvm1:~>kubectl get pods -n powerflex | grep post configure-postgres-prerequirements-0-hw95r 0/1 Completed 0 47d postgres-ha-cnpg-1 1/1 Running 0 47d postgres-ha-cnpg-2 1/1 Running 0 47d postgres-ha-cnpg-3 1/1 Running 0 86m postgres-ha-cnpg-pooler-556778f6fd-2tmd9 1/1 Running 0 21d postgres-ha-cnpg-pooler-556778f6fd-qnp8k 1/1 Running 0 21d postgres-monitor-7fd88546c7-h6tjn 1/1 Running 0 21d postgres-monitor-7fd88546c7-l2wk7 1/1 Running 0 21d - If all DB instanses are Running, manually clear the alerts using this article PowerFlex 4.X: How To Manually Clear Alerts From 4.X PowerFlex Manager UI
- Restart/delete the presentation-service pod to flush cached state
kubectl delete pod -n powerflex $(kubectl get pods -n powerflex | grep presentation | awk '{print $1}')Affected Products
PowerFlex rack, ScaleIOArticle Properties
Article Number: 000453497
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
Version: 1
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