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PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook

You're reading from   PostgreSQL 9 High Availability Cookbook Over 100 recipes to design and implement a highly available server with the advanced features of PostgreSQL.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516969
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shaun Thomas Shaun Thomas
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hardware Planning FREE CHAPTER 2. Handling and Avoiding Downtime 3. Pooling Resources 4. Troubleshooting 5. Monitoring 6. Replication 7. Replication Management Tools 8. Advanced Stack 9. Cluster Control 10. Data Distribution Index

Chapter 5. Monitoring

In this chapter, we will learn how to effectively monitor PostgreSQL's server status and database performance. Primarily, we will focus on using Nagios, check_mk, check_postgres, collectd, and Graphite; all of these tools excel at system monitoring. We will cover the following recipes in this chapter:

  • Figuring out what to monitor
  • Installing and configuring Nagios
  • Configuring Nagios to monitor a database host
  • Enhancing Nagios with check_mk
  • Getting to know check_postgres
  • Installing and configuring collectd
  • Adding a custom PostgreSQL monitor to collectd
  • Installing and configuring Graphite
  • Adding collectd data to Graphite
  • Building a graph in Graphite
  • Customizing a Graphite graph
  • Creating a Graphite dashboard
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