Re: Application monitoring

Hi Steve

In my old company we had some shell skripts, monitoring all the oracle
stuff. I plan to transfer this to pg later. It was easy but verry stable
concept: 2 Servers where watching each other with the same
functionality: the master was checking all databases for availablity,
free space in tablespace (does not (yet) exist in postgreSQL), free
diskspace for oracle mountpoints, listener, apache, etc...
If there was a problem, after 3 alarms (3x5 minutes) a pikett dba was
called via pager-call etc.

If it helps to you, please let me know.

Oli

Steve Lane wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> We maintain a number of web-based applications that use postgres as
> the back end. We recently had an unfortunate situation where the
> hosted server was hacked and the client had some significant downtime.
> We proposed a custom monitoring app, written in PHP, that would
> periodically monitor (for example) the web server (Apache) and
> database (postgres) so that we’d know more quickly when something
> happened.
>
> The client responded that surely this problem of monitoring a
> database-backed web app was a known, solved problem, and wanted to
> know what other people did to solve the problem.
>
> So my question, hopefully not too off-topic: if you administer a
> mission-critical postgres install that needs high availability, what
> do you do for monitoring? Commercial, freeware or open source tool?
> Custom scripts? Anything I haven’t thought of?
>
> -- sgl
>
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