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PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook

You're reading from PostgreSQL High Availability Cookbook Managing a reliable PostgreSQL database

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125537

Length 536 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

PostgreSQL

Concepts

High Performance Programming

Author (1):

Shaun Thomas

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

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. Simple Stack

9. Advanced Stack

10. Cluster Control

11. Data Distribution

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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Authors (1)

Shaun Thomas

Shaun Thomas

Shaun Thomas has been experimenting with PostgreSQL since late 2000 and serves as a database consultant, teacher, blogger, and support engineer with 2ndQuadrant. He has presented at conferences such as Postgres Open, 2Q PGCONF, and PgConf on topics such as handling extreme throughput, high availability, failover techniques, monitoring tools, database architecture, multi-master conflict avoidance, and high availability upgrade concepts. He believes in a multi-disciplinary approach when it comes to high availability.He believes that PostgreSQL has a stupendous future ahead, and he can't wait to see the advancements subsequent versions will bring.

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