Re: Question on Alerts

Hi,

On 16/02/2025 14:29, sud wrote:
> Hi,
> We are asked to have key monitoring or alerting added to our postgres 
> database. And I am thinking of metrics like blocked transactions, Max 
> used transaction Ids,  Max Active session threshold, Deadlock, Long 
> running query,  replica lag, buffer cache hit ratio, read/write IOPS or 
> latency etc. I have below questions
> 
> 1)Below are some which i tried writing, can you please let me know if 
> these are accurate?
> 2)How should we be writing the alerting query for deadlock, max used 
> transaction ids, read/write IOPS and latency?
> 3)Are there any docs available which have these sample sql queries on 
> the pg_* table for these critical alerts which we can easily configure 
> through any tool?
> 4)Any other alerts which we should be really having?
> 

You should probably look at check_postgres and check_pgactivity. Their 
source code contain numerous SQL queries, that could help you write your 
own.

Regards.


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