diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3416650b..640cc49a 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@ To contribute to the development of the SONATA gui you have to fork the reposito
 ## Installation
 ```
 docker run -d --name son-monitor-influxdb -p 8086:8086 son-monitor-influxdb
-docker run -d --name son-monitor-mysql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=user -e MYSQL_USER=user -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=pass -e MYSQL_DATABASE=dbname -p 3306:3306 son-monitor-mysql
+docker run -d --name son-monitor-postgres -e POSTGRES_DB=dbname -e POSTGRES_USER=user -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=pass -p 5433:5432 ntboes/postgres-uuid
 docker run -d --name son-monitor-pushgateway -p 9091:9091 son-monitor-pushgateway
 docker run -d --name son-monitor-prometheus -p 9090:9090 -p 9089:9089 -e RABBIT_URL=<son-broker-ip>:5671 --add-host pushgateway:127.0.0.1 --add-host influx:127.0.0.1 son-monitor-prometheus
-docker run -d --name son-monitor-manager --add-host mysql:127.0.0.1 --add-host prometheus:127.0.0.1 -p 8000:8000 son-monitor-manager
+docker run -d --name son-monitor-manager --add-host postgsql:127.0.0.1 --add-host prometheus:127.0.0.1 -p 8000:8000 son-monitor-manager
 ```
 
 ## Usage
diff --git a/manager/Dockerfile b/manager/Dockerfile
index 6c33de29..28059b24 100644
--- a/manager/Dockerfile
+++ b/manager/Dockerfile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 FROM ubuntu:14.04
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade && \
-apt-get -y install apache2 python2.7 python-pip libmysqlclient-dev python2.7-dev libyaml-dev libapache2-mod-wsgi 
+apt-get -y install apache2 python2.7 python-pip libmysqlclient-dev python2.7-dev libpq-dev libyaml-dev libapache2-mod-wsgi 
 
 RUN mkdir /opt/Monitoring
 COPY ./ /opt/Monitoring
diff --git a/manager/ManagerSrv/settings.py b/manager/ManagerSrv/settings.py
index c2cfcc16..8b4ec6df 100644
--- a/manager/ManagerSrv/settings.py
+++ b/manager/ManagerSrv/settings.py
@@ -124,12 +124,12 @@
 
 DATABASES = {
     'default': {
-        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
         'NAME': 'monitoring',
         'USER': 'monitoringuser',
         'PASSWORD': 'sonata',
-        'HOST': 'mysql',
-        'PORT': 3306,
+        'HOST': 'postgsql',
+        'PORT': 5433,
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/manager/requirements.txt b/manager/requirements.txt
index 0dc6f35a..9b7b39aa 100644
--- a/manager/requirements.txt
+++ b/manager/requirements.txt
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ Markdown==2.6.5
 mysqlclient==1.3.7
 Pygments==2.1.1
 PyYAML==3.11
+psycopg2==2.6.2
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/manager/run.sh b/manager/run.sh
index 17394765..26317e04 100644
--- a/manager/run.sh
+++ b/manager/run.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 echo "Wait for sqlDB...."
-while ! nc -z mysql 3306; do
+while ! nc -z postgsql 5433; do
   sleep 1 && echo -n .; # waiting for mysql
 done; 
 python /opt/Monitoring/manage.py makemigrations && \
diff --git a/mysql/Dockerfile b/mysql/Dockerfile
deleted file mode 100644
index 7efee1dc..00000000
--- a/mysql/Dockerfile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-FROM mysql:5.7