Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-04 Thread Gavin M. Roy
Are you contemplating providing access to data that's currently not stored in the pg_ catalog tables? I currently monitor the statio data, transactions per second, and active/idle backends. Things that I think would be useful would be average query execution time, longest execution time, etc.

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-03 Thread Gavin M. Roy
Hmm.. also data such as what is the background writer currently doing, where are we at in checkpoint segments, how close to checkpoint timeouts are we, etc. On 8/2/07, Alvaro Herrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Josh Tolley escribió: On 8/2/07, Gavin M. Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Davis
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 20:41 -0600, Josh Tolley wrote: So please respond, if you feel so inclined, describing things you like to monitor in your PostgreSQL instances as well as things you would like to be able to easily monitor in a more ideal world. Many thanks, and apologies for any breach of

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-02 Thread Alban Hertroys
Josh Tolley wrote: So please respond, if you feel so inclined, describing things you like to monitor in your PostgreSQL instances as well as things you would like to be able to easily monitor in a more ideal world. I can think of a few things I'd like to be able to monitor... Connection

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-02 Thread Scott Marlowe
I'd like to know what the age of the oldest running transaction is. i.e. hunt look out for old idle in transaction transactions that are holding up vacuuming. Info on the shared buffers like % used, % that hasn't been updated or seen in x minutes / hours / days. % used on various tablespaces

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-02 Thread Dawid Kuroczko
I usually monitor blks_read and blks_hit (of block level stats), when the latter is high I see shared memory is doing a good job, when the former then it also shows something Also, database-wide number of commits and rollbacks (btw, Slony has a habit of calling ROLLBACK when it done nothing -- I

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-02 Thread Josh Tolley
On 8/2/07, Gavin M. Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you contemplating providing access to data that's currently not stored in the pg_ catalog tables? I currently monitor the statio data, transactions per second, and active/idle backends. Things that I think would be useful would be average

Re: [GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-02 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Josh Tolley escribió: On 8/2/07, Gavin M. Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you contemplating providing access to data that's currently not stored in the pg_ catalog tables? I currently monitor the statio data, transactions per second, and active/idle backends. Things that I think would

[GENERAL] What do people like to monitor (or in other words, what might be nice in pgsnmpd)?

2007-08-01 Thread Josh Tolley
Work is beginning on pgsnmpd v 2.0, and I figured it would be a good time to ask folks what they typically like to monitor, so we can make sure pgsnmpd instruments it properly. The current version of pgsnmpd supports something called RDBMS-MIB, which is a set of data designed to be applicable to