From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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To: | Chris Hoover <revoohc(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Semi OT - Anyone monitoring PostgreSQL with nagios |
Date: | 2005-11-07 22:38:11 |
Message-ID: | 20051107223811.GJ19551@pervasive.com |
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I'm not familiar with Nagios, but you should be able to do something
like
psql -tc 'select 1' database
to see if it's alive and accepting queries.
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:18:55PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
> Is anyone using Nagios to monitor PostgreSQL?
>
> If so, is there any way to check for more than just your PostgreSQL instance
> being up?
>
> This weekend, we had an issue where a database shutdown failed due to a
> rogue query that would not die w/o a kill -9 being done on it. The database
> remained up and accepted connections only to tell the connection to go away
> because the database was shutting down.
>
> This up and accepting connections caused our Nagios instance to not report
> the database being down.
>
> Any ideas on how to get around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
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