diff --git a/compute/etc/pgbouncer.ini b/compute/etc/pgbouncer.ini
index cb994f961c87..abcd1656361f 100644
--- a/compute/etc/pgbouncer.ini
+++ b/compute/etc/pgbouncer.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 [databases]
-*=host=localhost port=5432 auth_user=cloud_admin
+;; pgbouncer propagates application_name (if it's specified) to the server, but some
+;; clients don't set it. We set default application_name=pgbouncer to make it
+;; easier to identify pgbouncer connections in Postgres. If client sets
+;; application_name, it will be used instead.
+*=host=localhost port=5432 auth_user=cloud_admin application_name=pgbouncer
 [pgbouncer]
 listen_port=6432
 listen_addr=0.0.0.0