Re: Semi OT - Anyone monitoring PostgreSQL with nagios

I'm not familiar with Nagios, but you should be able to do something
like

psql -tc 'select 1' database

to see if it's alive and accepting queries.

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:18:55PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
> Is anyone using Nagios to monitor PostgreSQL?
>
> If so, is there any way to check for more than just your PostgreSQL instance
> being up?
>
> This weekend, we had an issue where a database shutdown failed due to a
> rogue query that would not die w/o a kill -9 being done on it. The database
> remained up and accepted connections only to tell the connection to go away
> because the database was shutting down.
>
> This up and accepting connections caused our Nagios instance to not report
> the database being down.
>
> Any ideas on how to get around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris

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