October 2014
Intermediate to advanced
142 pages
3h 9m
English
Integrating PostgreSQL with the Nagios monitoring system is the goal of many system administrators. In many cases, Nagios or a Nagios-compliant solution is chosen to handle monitoring, alerting, and all that.
To integrate PostgreSQL with Nagios it makes sense to check out the Bucardo project, which offers a plugin to handle monitoring nicely. The plugin can be downloaded from the website http://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres.
Once the module has been installed, administrators can enjoy a rich variety of checks: http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/check_postgres.pl.html.
Depending on your type of setup, you might want to use different modules. For example, database_size might be a perfectly valid check if you happen to run a large ...