check_pgactivity 2.2

check_pgactivity 2.2
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The OPMDG has finally released the version 2.2 of check_pgactivity. Most
of the changes were already committed since a long time, but this
release finally brings official support for PostgreSQL 9.6 in
check_pgactivity.

This release brings some new features :
* support for PostgreSQL 9.6
* add service sequences_exhausted to prevent a sequence running out of ids
* add service stat_snapshot_age to detect a stuck stats collector process
* add service pgdata_permission to monitor rights and ownership of
PGDATA directory
* add support for "pending restart" parameters in service settings (9.5+)
* add timeline of in the perfdata output in service wal_files
* add warn/critical thresholds to streaming_delta perfdata
* make thresholds optional in service streaming_delta

Some fixes and changes were also done :

* fix backends_status for PostgreSQL 9.6
* improve and rename "ready_archives" to "archiver"
* fix archive_folder to handle compressed archived WAL properly
* fix a race condition to handle concurrent executions correctly
* fix bug in "human" output format
* fix documentation about default db connection
* now use parameter server_version_num to detect PostgreSQL version

What is check_pgactivity
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check_pgactivity is a Nagios-compatible checker to monitor every key
features of a PostgreSQL cluster :
* number of sessions, longuest queries, locked sessions, etc
* database size, bloated tables and bloated indexes
* WAL files, archiver state, database dumps
* streaming replication, replication slots
* and many more

check_pgactivity supports several output formats :
* Nagios, strict or not
* Human-readable
* binary (Perl-compatible)

Download
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All releases can by downloaded from github :
https://github.com/OPMDG/check_pgactivity/releases

The project page : https://github.com/OPMDG/check_pgactivity