diff --git a/manifests/integrations/postgres.pp b/manifests/integrations/postgres.pp
index 00f3f22f..ebb38e4b 100644
--- a/manifests/integrations/postgres.pp
+++ b/manifests/integrations/postgres.pp
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
   String $dbname                         = 'postgres',
   Variant[String, Integer] $port         = '5432',
   String $username                       = 'datadog',
-  Boolean $ssl                           = false,
+  String $ssl                            = 'allow',
   Boolean $use_psycopg2                  = false,
   Boolean $collect_function_metrics      = false,
   Boolean $collect_count_metrics         = false,