Introducing Open PostgreSQL Monitoring (OPM)

# Introducing Open PostgreSQL Monitoring (OPM)

## Oversee and Manage Your PostgreSQL Servers

_Paris, September 8th 2014_

The OPM Development Group (see below) is proud to present the first
public release of Open PostgreSQL Monitoring, a fully open source
monitoring suite for PostgreSQL.

## Get Graphs and Stats from your PostgreSQL instances!

PostgreSQL may be the most advanced database in the world but one of its
biggest handicap is the lack of open source dedicated monitoring tools.
Compared to its competitors, the PostgreSQL community has not been able
to produce tools similar to Oracle Grid Control, MySQL Workbench or SQL
Server Management Studio.

Today we'd like to present the OPM project: a fully open-source suite
designed to provide dynamic graphs, custom stats series, performance
analysis, server health overview and team management...

If you have serveral postgres servers in production, Open PostgreSQL
Monitoring is the perfect to watch the current activity of your
databases, with DBA-centric stats such as: database size, hit ratio,
streaming replication lag, system load, page bloat, longest queries, WAL
files generation, locks, backends status, etc.


## Extensibility is the key

This initial public version is obviously a first step toward more
features and more versatility.

OPM includes remote agents, a stat storage system and a web GUI. Most of
the code is currently in Perl and the stat collection is based on
Nagios, but the whole suite is designed to be extended to other
monitoring frameworks and other languages. It is possible to your own
remote agent, a specific stat storage or even an alternative user interface.

The OPM project was started in 2012 and it's been used in production for
months, monitoring dozens of servers like a charm. We're publishing
today the version 2.3 with the hope that it will be useful for other
PostgreSQL users around the world.

## Credits

The OPM Development Group would like to thank all the developers who
contributed to this release, especially Sebastien Fauveau from [Art is
Code](http://a.rtisco.de/) for his UI/UX design skills.

OPM is an open project available under the PostgreSQL License. Any
contribution to build a better tool is
welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches
using the GitHub tools or directly to contact@opm.io

## Links

  * Website : [http://opm.io/](http://opm.io/)
  * Demo : [http://demo.opm.io](http://demo.opm.io)  (login/pass = opm/demo)
  * twitter : [@__opm__](http://twiter.com/__opm__)


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**About OPM** :

Open PostgreSQL Monitoring is a free software designed to help you
manage your PostgreSQL servers. It's a flexible tool that will follow
the activity of each instance. It can gather stats, display dashboards
and send warnings when something goes wrong. The long-term goal of the
project is to provide similar features to those of Oracle Grid Control
or SQL Server Management Studio.

Code & Demo at [http://opm.io/](http://opm.io/)

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**About the OPM Development Group** :

This project is driven by the OPM Development Group (OPMDG), a team of
developers gathered to build efficient monitoring  tools for PostgreSQL.
So far the main sponsor of this project is DALIBO, the leading
PostgreSQL company in France. However the project team is open to ideas
and contributions: individuals and companies who share the goals of the
OPMDG are welcome to join the team!