Planet PostgreSQL – Keith Fiske: Announcing an Open Source Monitoring Extension for Postgres with pgMonitor

Crunchy Data is pleased to announce a new open source
pgMonitor Extension.
Crunchy Data has worked on a pgMonitor tool for several years as part of our
Kubernetes
and
self-managed Postgres
deployments and recently we’ve added an extension to the tool set.
Two primary scenarios motivated the creation of the pgMonitor extension :

Quicker Metrics: Monitoring metrics often need quick response times to
allow for frequent updates. We’ve noticed that certain metrics become slower
as the database grows. This impacts not only common metrics but also more
complex business metrics that could require several minutes to generate.
Version Compatibility: New PostgreSQL versions can break existing metrics
due to changes in the catalogs. Managing different metric sets for various
PostgreSQL versions is tedious and can be challenging.

Benefits of the pgMonitor extension
The…

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