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<li><a href="#name">NAME</a></li>
<li><a href="#synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></li>
<li><a href="#description">DESCRIPTION</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="#output_modes">Output Modes</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="#nagios_output">Nagios output</a></li>
<li><a href="#mrtg_output">MRTG output</a></li>
<li><a href="#simple_output">Simple output</a></li>
<li><a href="#cacti_output">Cacti output</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<li><a href="#database_connection_options">DATABASE CONNECTION OPTIONS</a></li>
<li><a href="#other_options">OTHER OPTIONS</a></li>
<li><a href="#actions">ACTIONS</a></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="#archive_ready"><strong>archive_ready</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#autovac_freeze"><strong>autovac_freeze</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#backends"><strong>backends</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#bloat"><strong>bloat</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#checkpoint"><strong>checkpoint</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#connection"><strong>connection</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#custom_query"><strong>custom_query</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#database_size"><strong>database_size</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#dbstats"><strong>dbstats</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#disabled_triggers"><strong>disabled_triggers</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#disk_space"><strong>disk_space</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#fsm_pages"><strong>fsm_pages</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#fsm_relations"><strong>fsm_relations</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#hot_standby_delay"><strong>hot_standby_delay</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#index_size"><strong>index_size</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#table_size"><strong>table_size</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#relation_size"><strong>relation_size</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#last_analyze"><strong>last_analyze</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#last_vacuum"><strong>last_vacuum</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#last_autoanalyze"><strong>last_autoanalyze</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#last_autovacuum"><strong>last_autovacuum</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#listener"><strong>listener</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#locks"><strong>locks</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#logfile"><strong>logfile</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#new_version_bc"><strong>new_version_bc</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#new_version_cp"><strong>new_version_cp</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#new_version_pg"><strong>new_version_pg</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#new_version_tnm"><strong>new_version_tnm</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgbouncer_checksum"><strong>pgbouncer_checksum</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgb_pool_cl_active"><strong>pgb_pool_cl_active</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgb_pool_cl_waiting"><strong>pgb_pool_cl_waiting</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgb_pool_sv_active"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_active</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgb_pool_sv_idle"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_idle</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgb_pool_sv_used"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_used</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgb_pool_sv_tested"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_tested</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgb_pool_sv_login"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_login</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#pgb_pool_maxwait"><strong>pgb_pool_maxwait</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#prepared_txns"><strong>prepared_txns</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#query_runtime"><strong>query_runtime</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#query_time"><strong>query_time</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#replicate_row"><strong>replicate_row</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#same_schema"><strong>same_schema</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#sequence"><strong>sequence</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#settings_checksum"><strong>settings_checksum</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#slony_status"><strong>slony_status</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#timesync"><strong>timesync</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#txn_idle"><strong>txn_idle</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#txn_time"><strong>txn_time</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#txn_wraparound"><strong>txn_wraparound</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#version"><strong>version</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#wal_files"><strong>wal_files</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#rebuild_symlinks"><strong>rebuild_symlinks</strong></a></li>
<li><a href="#rebuild_symlinks_force"><strong>rebuild_symlinks_force</strong></a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a></li>
<li><a href="#user_name_filtering">USER NAME FILTERING</a></li>
<li><a href="#test_mode">TEST MODE</a></li>
<li><a href="#files">FILES</a></li>
<li><a href="#environment_variables">ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</a></li>
<li><a href="#tips_and_tricks">TIPS AND TRICKS</a></li>
<li><a href="#dependencies">DEPENDENCIES</a></li>
<li><a href="#development">DEVELOPMENT</a></li>
<li><a href="#mailing_list">MAILING LIST</a></li>
<li><a href="#history">HISTORY</a></li>
<li><a href="#bugs_and_limitations">BUGS AND LIMITATIONS</a></li>
<li><a href="#author">AUTHOR</a></li>
<li><a href="#nagios_examples">NAGIOS EXAMPLES</a></li>
<li><a href="#license_and_copyright">LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT</a></li>
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<h1><a name="name">NAME</a></h1>
<p><strong>check_postgres.pl</strong> - a Postgres monitoring script for Nagios, MRTG, Cacti, and others</p>
<p>This documents describes check_postgres.pl version 2.16.0</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</a></h1>
<pre>
## Create all symlinks
check_postgres.pl --symlinks</pre>
<pre>
## Check connection to Postgres database 'pluto':
check_postgres.pl --action=connection --db=pluto</pre>
<pre>
## Same things, but using the symlink
check_postgres_connection --db=pluto</pre>
<pre>
## Warn if > 100 locks, critical if > 200, or > 20 exclusive
check_postgres_locks --warning=100 --critical="total=200;exclusive=20"</pre>
<pre>
## Show the current number of idle connections on port 6543:
check_postgres_txn_idle --port=6543 --output=simple</pre>
<pre>
## There are many other actions and options, please keep reading.</pre>
<pre>
The latest news and documentation can always be found at:
<a href="http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/">http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/</a></pre>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="description">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
<p>check_postgres.pl is a Perl script that runs many different tests against
one or more Postgres databases. It uses the psql program to gather the
information, and outputs the results in one of three formats: Nagios, MRTG,
or simple.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="output_modes">Output Modes</a></h2>
<p>The output can be changed by use of the <code>--output</code> option. The default output
is nagios, although this can be changed at the top of the script if you wish. The
current option choices are <strong>nagios</strong>, <strong>mrtg</strong>, and <strong>simple</strong>. To avoid having to
enter the output argument each time, the type of output is automatically set
if no --output argument is given, and if the current directory has one of the
output options in its name. For example, creating a directory named mrtg and
populating it with symlinks via the <em>--symlinks</em> argument would ensure that
any actions run from that directory will always default to an output of "mrtg"
As a shortcut for --output=simple, you can enter --simple, which also overrides
the directory naming trick.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h3><a name="nagios_output">Nagios output</a></h3>
<p>The default output format is for Nagios, which is a single line of information, along
with four specific exit codes:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong><a name="ok" class="item">(OK)</a></strong>
</li>
<li><strong><a name="warning" class="item">(WARNING)</a></strong>
</li>
<li><strong><a name="critical" class="item">(CRITICAL)</a></strong>
</li>
<li><strong><a name="unknown" class="item">(UNKNOWN)</a></strong>
</li>
</ol>
<p>The output line is one of the words above, a colon, and then a short description of what
was measured. Additional statistics information, as well as the total time the command
took, can be output as well: see the documentation on the arguments
<em><a href="#showperf_val">--showperf</a></em>,
<em><a href="#perflimit_i">--perflimit</a></em>, and
<em><a href="#showtime_val">--showtime</a></em>.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h3><a name="mrtg_output">MRTG output</a></h3>
<p>The MRTG output is four lines, with the first line always giving a single number of importance.
When possible, this number represents an actual value such as a number of bytes, but it
may also be a 1 or a 0 for actions that only return "true" or "false", such as check_postgres_version.
The second line is an additional stat and is only used for some actions. The third line indicates
an "uptime" and is not used. The fourth line is a description and usually indicates the name of
the database the stat from the first line was pulled from, but may be different depending on the
action.</p>
<p>Some actions accept an optional <em>--mrtg</em> argument to further control the output.</p>
<p>See the documentation on each action for details on the exact MRTG output for each one.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h3><a name="simple_output">Simple output</a></h3>
<p>The simple output is simply a truncated version of the MRTG one, and simply returns the first number
and nothing else. This is very useful when you just want to check the state of something, regardless
of any threshold. You can transform the numeric output by appending KB, MB, GB, TB, or EB to the output
argument, for example:</p>
<pre>
--output=simple,MB</pre>
<p>
</p>
<h3><a name="cacti_output">Cacti output</a></h3>
<p>The Cacti output consists of one or more items on the same line, with a simple name, a colon, and
then a number. At the moment, the only action with explicit Cacti output is 'dbstats', and using
the --output option is not needed in this case, as Cacti is the only output for this action. For many
other actions, using --simple is enough to make Cacti happy.</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="database_connection_options">DATABASE CONNECTION OPTIONS</a></h1>
<p>All actions accept a common set of database options.</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong><a name="h_name_or_host_name" class="item"><strong>-H NAME</strong> or <strong>--host=NAME</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Connect to the host indicated by NAME. Can be a comma-separated list of names. Multiple host arguments
are allowed. If no host is given, defaults to the <code>PGHOST</code> environment variable or no host at all
(which indicates using a local Unix socket). You may also use "--dbhost".</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="p_port_or_port_port" class="item"><strong>-p PORT</strong> or <strong>--port=PORT</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Connects using the specified PORT number. Can be a comma-separated list of port numbers, and multiple
port arguments are allowed. If no port number is given, defaults to the <code>PGPORT</code> environment variable. If
that is not set, it defaults to 5432. You may also use "--dbport"</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="db_name_or_dbname_name" class="item"><strong>-db NAME</strong> or <strong>--dbname=NAME</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Specifies which database to connect to. Can be a comma-separated list of names, and multiple dbname
arguments are allowed. If no dbname option is provided, defaults to the <code>PGDATABASE</code> environment variable.
If that is not set, it defaults to 'postgres' if psql is version 8 or greater, and 'template1' otherwise.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="u_username_or_dbuser_username" class="item"><strong>-u USERNAME</strong> or <strong>--dbuser=USERNAME</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The name of the database user to connect as. Can be a comma-separated list of usernames, and multiple
dbuser arguments are allowed. If this is not provided, it defaults to the <code>PGUSER</code> environment variable, otherwise
it defaults to 'postgres'.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="dbpass_password" class="item"><strong>--dbpass=PASSWORD</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Provides the password to connect to the database with. Use of this option is highly discouraged.
Instead, one should use a .pgpass or pg_service.conf file.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="dbservice_name" class="item"><strong>--dbservice=NAME</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The name of a service inside of the pg_service.conf file. This file is in your home directory by
default and contains a simple list of connection options. You can also pass additional information
when using this option such as --dbservice="maindatabase sslmode=require"</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>The database connection options can be grouped: <em>--host=a,b --host=c --port=1234 --port=3344</em>
would connect to a-1234, b-1234, and c-3344. Note that once set, an option
carries over until it is changed again.</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<pre>
--host=a,b --port=5433 --db=c
Connects twice to port 5433, using database c, to hosts a and b: a-5433-c b-5433-c</pre>
<pre>
--host=a,b --port=5433 --db=c,d
Connects four times: a-5433-c a-5433-d b-5433-c b-5433-d</pre>
<pre>
--host=a,b --host=foo --port=1234 --port=5433 --db=e,f
Connects six times: a-1234-e a-1234-f b-1234-e b-1234-f foo-5433-e foo-5433-f</pre>
<pre>
--host=a,b --host=x --port=5432,5433 --dbuser=alice --dbuser=bob -db=baz
Connects three times: a-5432-alice-baz b-5433-alice-baz x-5433-bob-baz</pre>
<pre>
--dbservice="foo" --port=5433
Connects using the named service 'foo' in the pg_service.conf file, but overrides the port</pre>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="other_options">OTHER OPTIONS</a></h1>
<p>Other options include:</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong><a name="action_name" class="item"><strong>--action=NAME</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>States what action we are running. Required unless using a symlinked file,
in which case the name of the file is used to figure out the action.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="warning_val_or_w_val" class="item"><strong>--warning=VAL or -w VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Sets the threshold at which a warning alert is fired. The valid options for this
option depends on the action used.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="critical_val_or_c_val" class="item"><strong>--critical=VAL or -c VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Sets the threshold at which a critical alert is fired. The valid options for this
option depends on the action used.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="t_val_or_timeout_val" class="item"><strong>-t VAL</strong> or <strong>--timeout=VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Sets the timeout in seconds after which the script will abort whatever it is doing
and return an UNKNOWN status. The timeout is per Postgres cluster, not for the entire
script. The default value is 10; the units are always in seconds.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="h_or_help" class="item"><strong>-h</strong> or <strong>--help</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Displays a help screen with a summary of all actions and options.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="man" class="item"><strong>--man</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Displays the entire manual.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="v_or_version" class="item"><strong>-V</strong> or <strong>--version</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Shows the current version.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="v_or_verbose" class="item"><strong>-v</strong> or <strong>--verbose</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Set the verbosity level. Can call more than once to boost the level. Setting it to three
or higher (in other words, issuing <code>-v -v -v</code>) turns on debugging information for this
program which is sent to stderr.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="showperf_val" class="item"><strong>--showperf=VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Determines if we output additional performance data in standard Nagios format
(at end of string, after a pipe symbol, using name=value).
VAL should be 0 or 1. The default is 1. Only takes effect if using Nagios output mode.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="perflimit_i" class="item"><strong>--perflimit=i</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Sets a limit as to how many items of interest are reported back when using the
<em>showperf</em> option. This only has an effect for actions that return a large
number of items, such as <strong>table_size</strong>. The default is 0, or no limit. Be
careful when using this with the <em>--include</em> or <em>--exclude</em> options, as
those restrictions are done <em>after</em> the query has been run, and thus your
limit may not include the items you want. Only takes effect if using Nagios output mode.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="showtime_val" class="item"><strong>--showtime=VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Determines if the time taken to run each query is shown in the output. VAL
should be 0 or 1. The default is 1. No effect unless <em>showperf</em> is on.
Only takes effect if using Nagios output mode.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="test" class="item"><strong>--test</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Enables test mode. See the <a href="#test_mode">TEST MODE</a> section below.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="psql_path" class="item"><strong>--PSQL=PATH</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Tells the script where to find the psql program. Useful if you have more than
one version of the psql executable on your system, or if there is no psql program
in your path. Note that this option is in all uppercase. By default, this option
is <em>not allowed</em>. To enable it, you must change the <code>$NO_PSQL_OPTION</code> near the
top of the script to 0. Avoid using this option if you can, and instead hard-code
your psql location into the <code>$PSQL</code> variable, also near the top of the script.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="symlinks" class="item"><strong>--symlinks</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Creates symlinks to the main program for each action.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="output_val" class="item"><strong>--output=VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Determines the format of the output, for use in various programs. The
default is 'nagios'. Available options are 'nagios', 'mrtg', 'simple'
and 'cacti'.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="mrtg_val" class="item"><strong>--mrtg=VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Used only for the MRTG or simple output, for a few specific actions.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="debugoutput_val" class="item"><strong>--debugoutput=VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Outputs the exact string returned by psql, for use in debugging. The value is one or more letters,
which determine if the output is displayed or not, where 'a' = all, 'c' = critical, 'w' = warning,
'o' = ok, and 'u' = unknown. Letters can be combined.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="get_method_val" class="item"><strong>--get_method=VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Allows specification of the method used to fetch information for the <code>new_version_cp</code>,
<code>new_version_pg</code>, <code>new_version_bc</code>, and <code>new_version_tnm</code> checks. The following programs are tried,
in order, to grab the information from the web: GET, wget, fetch, curl, lynx, links. To force the use of just
one (and thus remove the overhead of trying all the others until one of those works),
enter one of the names as the argument to get_method. For example, a BSD box might enter
the following line in their <code>.check_postgresrc</code> file:</p>
<pre>
get_method=fetch</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="language_val" class="item"><strong>--language=VAL</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Set the language to use for all output messages. Normally, this is detected by examining
the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, and LANG, but setting this option
will override any such detection.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="actions">ACTIONS</a></h1>
<p>The script runs one or more actions. This can either be done with the --action
flag, or by using a symlink to the main file that contains the name of the action
inside of it. For example, to run the action "timesync", you may either issue:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres.pl --action=timesync</pre>
<p>or use a program named:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_timesync</pre>
<p>All the symlinks are created for you in the current directory
if use the option --symlinks</p>
<pre>
perl check_postgres.pl --symlinks</pre>
<p>If the file name already exists, it will not be overwritten. If the file exists
and is a symlink, you can force it to overwrite by using "--action=build_symlinks_force"</p>
<p>Most actions take a <em>--warning</em> and a <em>--critical</em> option, indicating at what
point we change from OK to WARNING, and what point we go to CRITICAL. Note that
because criticals are always checked first, setting the warning equal to the
critical is an effective way to turn warnings off and always give a critical.</p>
<p>The current supported actions are:</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="archive_ready"><strong>archive_ready</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_archive_ready</code>) Checks how many WAL files with extension <em class="file">.ready</em>
exist in the <em class="file">pg_xlog/archive_status</em> directory, which is found
off of your <strong>data_directory</strong>. This action must be run as a superuser, in order to access the
contents of the <em class="file">pg_xlog/archive_status</em> directory. The minimum version to use this action is
Postgres 8.1. The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are simply the number of
<em class="file">.ready</em> files in the <em class="file">pg_xlog/archive_status</em> directory.
Usually, these values should be low, turning on the archive mechanism, we usually want it to
archive WAL files as fast as possible.</p>
<p>If the archive command fail, number of WAL in your <em class="file">pg_xlog</em> directory will grow until
exhausting all the disk space and force PostgreSQL to stop immediately.</p>
<p>Example 1: Check that the number of ready WAL files is 10 or less on host "pluto"</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_archive_ready --host=pluto --critical=10</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, reports the number of ready WAL files on line 1.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="autovac_freeze"><strong>autovac_freeze</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_autovac_freeze</code>) Checks how close each database is to the Postgres <strong>autovacuum_freeze_max_age</strong> setting. This
action will only work for databases version 8.2 or higher. The <em>--warning</em> and
<em>--critical</em> options should be expressed as percentages. The 'age' of the transactions
in each database is compared to the autovacuum_freeze_max_age setting (200 million by default)
to generate a rounded percentage. The default values are <strong>90%</strong> for the warning and <strong>95%</strong> for
the critical. Databases can be filtered by use of the <em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options.
See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning when any databases on port 5432 are above 97%</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_autovac_freeze --port=5432 --warning="97%"</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, the highest overall percentage is reported on the first line, and the highest age is
reported on the second line. All databases which have the percentage from the first line are reported
on the fourth line, separated by a pipe symbol.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="backends"><strong>backends</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_backends</code>) Checks the current number of connections for one or more databases, and optionally
compares it to the maximum allowed, which is determined by the
Postgres configuration variable <strong>max_connections</strong>. The <em>--warning</em> and
<em>--critical</em> options can take one of three forms. First, a simple number can be
given, which represents the number of connections at which the alert will be
given. This choice does not use the <strong>max_connections</strong> setting. Second, the
percentage of available connections can be given. Third, a negative number can
be given which represents the number of connections left until <strong>max_connections</strong>
is reached. The default values for <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> are '90%' and '95%'.
You can also filter the databases by use of the <em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options.
See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>To view only non-idle processes, you can use the <em>--noidle</em> argument. Note that the
user you are connecting as must be a superuser for this to work properly.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning when the number of connections on host quirm reaches 120, and a critical if it reaches 150.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_backends --host=quirm --warning=120 --critical=150</pre>
<p>Example 2: Give a critical when we reach 75% of our max_connections setting on hosts lancre or lancre2.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_backends --warning='75%' --critical='75%' --host=lancre,lancre2</pre>
<p>Example 3: Give a warning when there are only 10 more connection slots left on host plasmid, and a critical
when we have only 5 left.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_backends --warning=-10 --critical=-5 --host=plasmid</pre>
<p>Example 4: Check all databases except those with "test" in their name, but allow ones that are named "pg_greatest". Connect as port 5432 on the first two hosts, and as port 5433 on the third one. We want to always throw a critical when we reach 30 or more connections.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_backends --dbhost=hong,kong --dbhost=fooey --dbport=5432 --dbport=5433 --warning=30 --critical=30 --exclude="~test" --include="pg_greatest,~prod"</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, the number of connections is reported on the first line, and the fourth line gives the name of the database,
plus the current maximum_connections. If more than one database has been queried, the one with the highest number of
connections is output.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="bloat"><strong>bloat</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_bloat</code>) Checks the amount of bloat in tables and indexes. (Bloat is generally the amount
of dead unused space taken up in a table or index. This space is usually reclaimed
by use of the VACUUM command.) This action requires that stats collection be
enabled on the target databases, and requires that ANALYZE is run frequently.
The <em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options can be used to filter out which tables
to look at. See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options can be specified as sizes or percents.
Valid size units are bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, exabytes,
petabytes, and zettabytes. You can abbreviate all of those with the first letter. Items
without units are assumed to be 'bytes'. The default values are '1 GB' and '5 GB'. The value
represents the number of "wasted bytes", or the difference between what is actually
used by the table and index, and what we compute that it should be.</p>
<p>Note that this action has two hard-coded values to avoid false alarms on
smaller relations. Tables must have at least 10 pages, and indexes at least 15,
before they can be considered by this test. If you really want to adjust these
values, you can look for the variables <em>$MINPAGES</em> and <em>$MINIPAGES</em> at the top of the
<code>check_bloat</code> subroutine.</p>
<p>Only the top 10 most bloated relations are shown. You can change this number by
using the <em>--perflimit</em> option to set your own limit.</p>
<p>The schema named 'information_schema' is excluded from this test, as the only tables
it contains are small and do not change.</p>
<p>Please note that the values computed by this action are not precise, and
should be used as a guideline only. Great effort was made to estimate the
correct size of a table, but in the end it is only an estimate. The correct
index size is even more of a guess than the correct table size, but both
should give a rough idea of how bloated things are.</p>
<p>Example 1: Warn if any table on port 5432 is over 100 MB bloated, and critical if over 200 MB</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_bloat --port=5432 --warning='100 M', --critical='200 M'</pre>
<p>Example 2: Give a critical if table 'orders' on host 'sami' has more than 10 megs of bloat</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_bloat --host=sami --include=orders --critical='10 MB'</pre>
<p>Example 3: Give a critical if table 'q4' on database 'sales' is over 50% bloated</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_bloat --db=sales --include=q4 --critical='50%'</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, the first line gives the highest number of wasted bytes for the tables, and the
second line gives the highest number of wasted bytes for the indexes. The fourth line gives the database
name, table name, and index name information. If you want to output the bloat ratio instead (how many
times larger the relation is compared to how large it should be), just pass in <code>--mrtg=ratio</code>.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="checkpoint"><strong>checkpoint</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_checkpoint</code>) Determines how long since the last checkpoint has
been run. This must run on the same server as the database that is being checked (e.g. the -h
flag will not work). This check is meant to run on a "warm standby" server that is actively
processing shipped WAL files, and is meant to check that your warm standby is truly 'warm'.
The data directory must be set, either by the environment variable <code>PGDATA</code>, or passing
the <code>--datadir</code> argument. It returns the number of seconds since the last checkpoint
was run, as determined by parsing the call to <code>pg_controldata</code>. Because of this, the
pg_controldata executable must be available in the current path. Alternatively, you can
set the environment variable <code>PGCONTROLDATA</code> to the exact location of the pg_controldata
executable, or you can specify <code>PGBINDIR</code> as the directory that it lives in.</p>
<p>At least one warning or critical argument must be set.</p>
<p>This action requires the Date::Parse module.</p>
<p>For MRTG or simple output, returns the number of seconds.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="connection"><strong>connection</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_connection</code>) Simply connects, issues a 'SELECT version()', and leaves.
Takes no <em>--warning</em> or <em>--critical</em> options.</p>
<p>For MRTG output, simply outputs a 1 (good connection) or a 0 (bad connection) on the first line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="custom_query"><strong>custom_query</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_custom_query</code>) Runs a custom query of your choosing, and parses the results. The query itself is passed in through
the <code>custom_query</code> argument, and should be kept as simple as possible. If at all possible, wrap it in
a view or a function to keep things easier to manage. The query should return one or two columns: the first
is the result that will be checked, and the second is any performance data you want sent. They must be returned
as columns named <em>result</em> and <em>data</em>.</p>
<p>At least one warning or critical argument must be specified. What these are set to depends on the type of
query you are running. There are four types of custom_queries that can be run, specified by the <code>valtype</code>
argument. If none is specified, this action defaults to 'integer'. The four types are:</p>
<p><strong>integer</strong>:
Does a simple integer comparison. The first column should be a simple integer, and the warning and
critical values should be the same.</p>
<p><strong>string</strong>:
The warning and critical are strings, and are triggered only if the value in the first column matches
it exactly. This is case-sensitive.</p>
<p><strong>time</strong>:
The warning and the critical are times, and can have units of seconds, minutes, hours, or days.
Each may be written singular or abbreviated to just the first letter. If no units are given,
seconds are assumed. The first column should be an integer representing the number of seconds
to check.</p>
<p><strong>size</strong>:
The warning and the critical are sizes, and can have units of bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes,
terabytes, or exabytes. Each may be abbreviated to the first letter. If no units are given,
bytes are assumed. The first column should be an integer representing the number of bytes to check.</p>
<p>Normally, an alert is triggered if the values returned are <strong>greater than</strong> or equal to the critical or warning
value. However, an option of <em>--reverse</em> will trigger the alert if the returned value is
<strong>lower than</strong> or equal to the critical or warning value.</p>
<p>Example 1: Warn if any relation over 100 pages is named "rad":</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_custom_query --valtype=string -w "rad" --query="SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE relpages > 100" --port=5432</pre>
<p>Example 2: Give a critical if the "foobar" function returns a number over 5MB:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_custom_query --port=5432 --critical='5MB'--valtype=size --query="SELECT foobar()"</pre>
<p>Example 2: Warn if the function "snazzo" returns less than 42:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_custom_query --port=5432 --critical=42 --query="SELECT snazzo()" --reverse</pre>
<p>If you come up with a useful custom_query, consider sending in a patch to this program
to make it into a standard action that other people can use.</p>
<p>This action does not support MRTG or simple output yet.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="database_size"><strong>database_size</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_database_size</code>) Checks the size of all databases and complains when they are too big.
There is no need to run this command more than once per database cluster.
Databases can be filtered with
the <em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options. See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section
for more details.
They can also be filtered by the owner of the database with the
<em>--includeuser</em> and <em>--excludeuser</em> options.
See the <a href="#user_name_filtering">USER NAME FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>The warning and critical options can be specified as bytes, kilobytes, megabytes,
gigabytes, terabytes, or exabytes. Each may be abbreviated to the first letter as well.
If no unit is given, the units are assumed to be bytes. There are not defaults for this
action: the warning and critical must be specified. The warning value cannot be greater
than the critical value. The output returns all databases sorted by size largest first,
showing both raw bytes and a "pretty" version of the size.</p>
<p>Example 1: Warn if any database on host flagg is over 1 TB in size, and critical if over 1.1 TB.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_database_size --host=flagg --warning='1 TB' --critical='1.1 t'</pre>
<p>Example 2: Give a critical if the database template1 on port 5432 is over 10 MB.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_database_size --port=5432 --include=template1 --warning='10MB' --critical='10MB'</pre>
<p>Example 3: Give a warning if any database on host 'tardis' owned by the user 'tom' is over 5 GB</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_database_size --host=tardis --includeuser=tom --warning='5 GB' --critical='10 GB'</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the size in bytes of the largest database on the first line,
and the name of the database on the fourth line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="dbstats"><strong>dbstats</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_dbstats</code>) Reports information from the pg_stat_database view,
and outputs it in a Cacti-friendly manner. No other output is supported, as the output
is informational and does not lend itself to alerts, such as used with Nagios. If no
options are given, all databases are returned, one per line. You can include a specific
database by use of the <code>--include</code> option, or you can use the <a href="#dbname"><code>--dbname</code></a> option.</p>
<p>Eleven items are returned on each line, in the format name:value, separated by a single
space. The items are:</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong><a name="backends" class="item">backends</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The number of currently running backends for this database.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="commits" class="item">commits</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of commits for this database since it was created or reset.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="rollbacks" class="item">rollbacks</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of rollbacks for this database since it was created or reset.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="read" class="item">read</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of disk blocks read.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="hit" class="item">hit</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of buffer hits.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="ret" class="item">ret</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of rows returned.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="fetch" class="item">fetch</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of rows fetched.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="ins" class="item">ins</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of rows inserted.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="upd" class="item">upd</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of rows updated.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="del" class="item">del</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The total number of rows deleted.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="dbname" class="item">dbname</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>The name of the database.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Note that ret, fetch, ins, upd, and del items will always be 0 if Postgres is version 8.2 or lower, as those stats were
not available in those versions.</p>
<p>If the dbname argument is given, seven additional items are returned:</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong><a name="idx_scan" class="item">idx_scan</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Total number of user index scans.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="idx_tup_read" class="item">idx_tup_read</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Total number of user index entries returned.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="idx_tup_fetch" class="item">idx_tup_fetch</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Total number of rows fetched by simple user index scans.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="idx_blks_read" class="item">idx_blks_read</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Total number of disk blocks read for all user indexes.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="idx_blks_hit" class="item">idx_blks_hit</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Total number of buffer hits for all user indexes.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="seq_scan" class="item">seq_scan</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Total number of sequential scans against all user tables.</p>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="seq_tup_read" class="item">seq_tup_read</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<p>Total number of tuples returned from all user tables.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Example 1: Grab the stats for a database named "products" on host "willow":</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_dbstats --dbhost willow --dbname products</pre>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="disabled_triggers"><strong>disabled_triggers</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_disabled_triggers</code>) Checks on the number of disabled triggers inside the database.
The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are the number of such triggers found, and both
default to "1", as in normal usage having disabled triggers is a dangerous event. If the
database being checked is 8.3 or higher, the check is for the number of triggers that are
in a 'disabled' status (as opposed to being 'always' or 'replica'). The output will show
the name of the table and the name of the trigger for each disabled trigger.</p>
<p>Example 1: Make sure that there are no disabled triggers</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_disabled_triggers</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the number of disabled triggers on the first line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="disk_space"><strong>disk_space</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_disk_space</code>) Checks on the available physical disk space used by Postgres. This action requires
that you have the executable "/bin/df" available to report on disk sizes, and it
also needs to be run as a superuser, so it can examine the <strong>data_directory</strong>
setting inside of Postgres. The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are
given in either sizes or percentages. If using sizes, the standard unit types
are allowed: bytes, kilobytes, gigabytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, or
exabytes. Each may be abbreviated to the first letter only; no units at all
indicates 'bytes'. The default values are '90%' and '95%'.</p>
<p>This command checks the following things to determine all of the different
physical disks being used by Postgres.</p>
<p><strong>data_directory</strong> - The disk that the main data directory is on.</p>
<p><strong>log directory</strong> - The disk that the log files are on.</p>
<p><strong>WAL file directory</strong> - The disk that the write-ahead logs are on (e.g. symlinked pg_xlog)</p>
<p><strong>tablespaces</strong> - Each tablespace that is on a separate disk.</p>
<p>The output shows the total size used and available on each disk, as well as
the percentage, ordered by highest to lowest percentage used. Each item above
maps to a file system: these can be included or excluded. See the
<a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>Example 1: Make sure that no file system is over 90% for the database on port 5432.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_disk_space --port=5432 --warning='90%' --critical="90%'</pre>
<p>Example 2: Check that all file systems starting with /dev/sda are smaller than 10 GB and 11 GB (warning and critical)</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_disk_space --port=5432 --warning='10 GB' --critical='11 GB' --include="~^/dev/sda"</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the size in bytes of the file system on the first line,
and the name of the file system on the fourth line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="fsm_pages"><strong>fsm_pages</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_fsm_pages</code>) Checks how close a cluster is to the Postgres <strong>max_fsm_pages</strong> setting.
This action will only work for databases of 8.2 or higher, and it requires the contrib
module <strong>pg_freespacemap</strong> be installed. The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options should be expressed
as percentages. The number of used pages in the free-space-map is determined by looking in the
pg_freespacemap_relations view, and running a formula based on the formula used for
outputting free-space-map pageslots in the vacuum verbose command. The default values are <strong>85%</strong> for the
warning and <strong>95%</strong> for the critical.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning when our cluster has used up 76% of the free-space pageslots, with pg_freespacemap installed in database robert</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_fsm_pages --dbname=robert --warning="76%"</pre>
<p>While you need to pass in the name of the database where pg_freespacemap is installed, you only need to run this check once per cluster. Also, checking this information does require obtaining special locks on the free-space-map, so it is recommend you do not run this check with short intervals.</p>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the percent of free-space-map on the first line, and the number of pages currently used on
the second line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="fsm_relations"><strong>fsm_relations</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_fsm_relations</code>) Checks how close a cluster is to the Postgres <strong>max_fsm_relations</strong> setting.
This action will only work for databases of 8.2 or higher, and it requires the contrib module <strong>pg_freespacemap</strong> be
installed. The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options should be expressed as percentages. The number of used relations
in the free-space-map is determined by looking in the pg_freespacemap_relations view. The default values are <strong>85%</strong> for
the warning and <strong>95%</strong> for the critical.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning when our cluster has used up 80% of the free-space relations, with pg_freespacemap installed in database dylan</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_fsm_relations --dbname=dylan --warning="75%"</pre>
<p>While you need to pass in the name of the database where pg_freespacemap is installed, you only need to run this check
once per cluster. Also,
checking this information does require obtaining special locks on the free-space-map, so it is recommend you do not
run this check with short intervals.</p>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the percent of free-space-map on the first line, the number of relations currently used on
the second line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="hot_standby_delay"><strong>hot_standby_delay</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_hot_standby_delay</code>) Checks the streaming replication lag by computing the delta
between the xlog position of a master server and the one of a slave connected to it. The slave_
server must be in hot_standby (eg. read only) mode, therefore the minimum version to use this_
action is Postgres 9.0. The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are the delta between xlog
location. These values should match the volume of transactions needed to have the streaming
replication disconnect from the master because of too much lag.</p>
<p>You must provide information on how to reach the second database by a connection
parameter ending in the number 2, such as "--dbport2=5543". If if it not given,
the action fails.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="index_size"><strong>index_size</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="table_size"><strong>table_size</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="relation_size"><strong>relation_size</strong></a></h2>
<p>(symlinks: <code>check_postgres_index_size</code>, <code>check_postgres_table_size</code>, and <code>check_postgres_relation_size</code>)
The actions <strong>table_size</strong> and <strong>index_size</strong> are simply variations of the
<strong>relation_size</strong> action, which checks for a relation that has grown too big.
Relations (in other words, tables and indexes) can be filtered with the
<em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options. See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section
for more details. Relations can also be filtered by the user that owns them,
by using the <em>--includeuser</em> and <em>--excludeuser</em> options.
See the <a href="#user_name_filtering">USER NAME FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>The values for the <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are file sizes, and
may have units of bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terabytes, or exabytes.
Each can be abbreviated to the first letter. If no units are given, bytes are
assumed. There are no default values: both the warning and the critical option
must be given. The return text shows the size of the largest relation found.</p>
<p>If the <em>--showperf</em> option is enabled, <em>all</em> of the relations with their sizes
will be given. To prevent this, it is recommended that you set the
<em>--perflimit</em> option, which will cause the query to do a
<code>ORDER BY size DESC LIMIT (perflimit)</code>.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a critical if any table is larger than 600MB on host burrick.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_table_size --critical='600 MB' --warning='600 MB' --host=burrick</pre>
<p>Example 2: Warn if the table products is over 4 GB in size, and give a critical at 4.5 GB.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_table_size --host=burrick --warning='4 GB' --critical='4.5 GB' --include=products</pre>
<p>Example 3: Warn if any index not owned by postgres goes over 500 MB.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_index_size --port=5432 --excludeuser=postgres -w 500MB -c 600MB</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the size in bytes of the largest relation, and the name of the database
and relation as the fourth line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="last_analyze"><strong>last_analyze</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="last_vacuum"><strong>last_vacuum</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="last_autoanalyze"><strong>last_autoanalyze</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="last_autovacuum"><strong>last_autovacuum</strong></a></h2>
<p>(symlinks: <code>check_postgres_last_analyze</code>, <code>check_postgres_last_vacuum</code>,
<code>check_postgres_last_autoanalyze</code>, and <code>check_postgres_last_autovacuum</code>)
Checks how long it has been since vacuum (or analyze) was last run on each
table in one or more databases. Use of these actions requires that the target
database is version 8.3 or greater, or that the version is 8.2 and the
configuration variable <strong>stats_row_level</strong> has been enabled. Tables can be filtered with the
<em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options. See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section
for more details.
Tables can also be filtered by their owner by use of the
<em>--includeuser</em> and <em>--excludeuser</em> options.
See the <a href="#user_name_filtering">USER NAME FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>The units for <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> are specified as times.
Valid units are seconds, minutes, hours, and days; all can be abbreviated
to the first letter. If no units are given, 'seconds' are assumed. The
default values are '1 day' and '2 days'. Please note that there are cases
in which this field does not get automatically populated. If certain tables
are giving you problems, make sure that they have dead rows to vacuum,
or just exclude them from the test.</p>
<p>The schema named 'information_schema' is excluded from this test, as the only tables
it contains are small and do not change.</p>
<p>Note that the non-'auto' versions will also check on the auto versions as well. In other words,
using last_vacuum will report on the last vacuum, whether it was a normal vacuum, or
one run by the autovacuum daemon.</p>
<p>Example 1: Warn if any table has not been vacuumed in 3 days, and give a
critical at a week, for host wormwood</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_last_vacuum --host=wormwood --warning='3d' --critical='7d'</pre>
<p>Example 2: Same as above, but skip tables belonging to the users 'eve' or 'mallory'</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_last_vacuum --host=wormwood --warning='3d' --critical='7d' --excludeusers=eve,mallory</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns (on the first line) the LEAST amount of time in seconds since a table was
last vacuumed or analyzed. The fourth line returns the name of the database and name of the table.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="listener"><strong>listener</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_listener</code>) Confirm that someone is listening for one or more specific strings. Only one of warning or critical is needed. The format
is a simple string representing the LISTEN target, or a tilde character followed by a string for a regular expression
check.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning if nobody is listening for the string bucardo_mcp_ping on ports 5555 and 5556</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_listener --port=5555,5556 --warning=bucardo_mcp_ping</pre>
<p>Example 2: Give a critical if there are no active LISTEN requests matching 'grimm' on database oskar</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_listener --db oskar --critical=~grimm</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns a 1 or a 0 on the first, indicating success or failure. The name of the notice must
be provided via the <em>--mrtg</em> option.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="locks"><strong>locks</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_locks</code>) Check the total number of locks on one or more databases. There is no
need to run this more than once per database cluster. Databases can be filtered
with the <em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options. See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section
for more details.</p>
<p>The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options can be specified as simple numbers,
which represent the total number of locks, or they can be broken down by type of lock.
Valid lock names are <code>'total'</code>, <code>'waiting'</code>, or the name of a lock type used by Postgres.
These names are case-insensitive and do not need the "lock" part on the end,
so <strong>exclusive</strong> will match 'ExclusiveLock'. The format is name=number, with different
items separated by semicolons.</p>
<p>Example 1: Warn if the number of locks is 100 or more, and critical if 200 or more, on host garrett</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_locks --host=garrett --warning=100 --critical=200</pre>
<p>Example 2: On the host artemus, warn if 200 or more locks exist, and give a critical if over 250 total locks exist, or if over 20 exclusive locks exist, or if over 5 connections are waiting for a lock.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_locks --host=artemus --warning=200 --critical="total=250;waiting=5;exclusive=20"</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the number of locks on the first line, and the name of the database on the fourth line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="logfile"><strong>logfile</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_logfile</code>) Ensures that the logfile is in the expected location and is being logged to.
This action issues a command that throws an error on each database it is
checking, and ensures that the message shows up in the logs. It scans the
various log_* settings inside of Postgres to figure out where the logs should be.
If you are using syslog, it does a rough (but not foolproof) scan of
<em class="file">/etc/syslog.conf</em>. Alternatively, you can provide the name of the logfile
with the <em>--logfile</em> option. This is especially useful if the logs have a
custom rotation scheme driven be an external program. The <strong>--logfile</strong> option
supports the following escape characters: <code>%Y %m %d %H</code>, which represent
the current year, month, date, and hour respectively. An error is always
reported as critical unless the warning option has been passed in as a non-zero
value. Other than that specific usage, the <code>--warning</code> and <code>--critical</code>
options should <em>not</em> be used.</p>
<p>Example 1: On port 5432, ensure the logfile is being written to the file /home/greg/pg8.2.log</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_logfile --port=5432 --logfile=/home/greg/pg8.2.log</pre>
<p>Example 2: Same as above, but raise a warning, not a critical</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_logfile --port=5432 --logfile=/home/greg/pg8.2.log -w 1</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns a 1 or 0 on the first line, indicating success or failure. In case of a
failure, the fourth line will provide more detail on the failure encountered.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="new_version_bc"><strong>new_version_bc</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_new_version_bc</code>) Checks if a newer version of the Bucardo
program is available. The current version is obtained by running <code>bucardo_ctl --version</code>.
If a major upgrade is available, a warning is returned. If a revision upgrade is
available, a critical is returned. (Bucardo is a master to slave, and master to master
replication system for Postgres: see <a href="http://bucardo.org">http://bucardo.org</a> for more information).
See also the information on the <code>--get_method</code> option.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="new_version_cp"><strong>new_version_cp</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_new_version_cp</code>) Checks if a newer version of this program
(check_postgres.pl) is available, by grabbing the version from a small text file
on the main page of the home page for the project. Returns a warning if the returned
version does not match the one you are running. Recommended interval to check is
once a day. See also the information on the <code>--get_method</code> option.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="new_version_pg"><strong>new_version_pg</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_new_version_pg</code>) Checks if a newer revision of Postgres
exists for each database connected to. Note that this only checks for revision, e.g.
going from 8.3.6 to 8.3.7. Revisions are always 100% binary compatible and involve no
dump and restore to upgrade. Revisions are made to address bugs, so upgrading as soon
as possible is always recommended. Returns a warning if you do not have the latest revision.
It is recommended this check is run at least once a day. See also the information on
the <code>--get_method</code> option.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="new_version_tnm"><strong>new_version_tnm</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_new_version_tnm</code>) Checks if a newer version of the
tail_n_mail program is available. The current version is obtained by running
<code>tail_n_mail --version</code>. If a major upgrade is available, a warning is returned. If a
revision upgrade is available, a critical is returned. (tail_n_mail is a log monitoring
tool that can send mail when interesting events appear in your Postgres logs.
See: <a href="http://bucardo.org/wiki/Tail_n_mail">http://bucardo.org/wiki/Tail_n_mail</a> for more information).
See also the information on the <code>--get_method</code> option.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgbouncer_checksum"><strong>pgbouncer_checksum</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_pgbouncer_checksum</code>) Checks that all the
pgBouncer settings are the same as last time you checked.
This is done by generating a checksum of a sorted list of setting names and
their values. Note that you shouldn't specify the database name, it will
automatically default to pgbouncer. Either the <em>--warning</em> or the <em>--critical</em> option
should be given, but not both. The value of each one is the checksum, a
32-character hexadecimal value. You can run with the special <code>--critical=0</code> option
to find out an existing checksum.</p>
<p>This action requires the Digest::MD5 module.</p>
<p>Example 1: Find the initial checksum for pgbouncer configuration on port 6432 using the default user (usually postgres)</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_pgbouncer_checksum --port=6432 --critical=0</pre>
<p>Example 2: Make sure no settings have changed and warn if so, using the checksum from above.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_pgbouncer_checksum --port=6432 --warning=cd2f3b5e129dc2b4f5c0f6d8d2e64231</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns a 1 or 0 indicating success of failure of the checksum to match. A
checksum must be provided as the <code>--mrtg</code> argument. The fourth line always gives the
current checksum.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgb_pool_cl_active"><strong>pgb_pool_cl_active</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgb_pool_cl_waiting"><strong>pgb_pool_cl_waiting</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgb_pool_sv_active"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_active</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgb_pool_sv_idle"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_idle</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgb_pool_sv_used"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_used</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgb_pool_sv_tested"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_tested</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgb_pool_sv_login"><strong>pgb_pool_sv_login</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="pgb_pool_maxwait"><strong>pgb_pool_maxwait</strong></a></h2>
<p>(symlinks: <code>check_postgres_pgb_pool_cl_active</code>, <code>check_postgres_pgb_pool_cl_waiting</code>,
<code>check_postgres_pgb_pool_sv_active</code>, <code>check_postgres_pgb_pool_sv_idle</code>,
<code>check_postgres_pgb_pool_sv_used</code>, <code>check_postgres_pgb_pool_sv_tested</code>,
<code>check_postgres_pgb_pool_sv_login</code>, and <code>check_postgres_pgb_pool_maxwait</code>)</p>
<p>Examines pgbouncer's pool statistics. Each pool has a set of "client"
connections, referring to connections from external clients, and "server"
connections, referring to connections to PostgreSQL itself. The related
check_postgres actions are prefixed by "cl_" and "sv_", respectively. Active
client connections are those connections currently linked with an active server
connection. Client connections may also be "waiting", meaning they have not yet
been allocated a server connection. Server connections are "active" (linked to
a client), "idle" (standing by for a client connection to link with), "used"
(just unlinked from a client, and not yet returned to the idle pool), "tested"
(currently being tested) and "login" (in the process of logging in). The
maxwait value shows how long in seconds the oldest waiting client connection
has been waiting.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="prepared_txns"><strong>prepared_txns</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_prepared_txns</code>) Check on the age of any existing prepared transactions.
Note that most people will NOT use prepared transactions, as they are part of two-part commit
and complicated to maintain. They should also not be confused with prepared STATEMENTS, which is
what most people think of when they hear prepare. The default value for a warning is 1 second, to
detect any use of prepared transactions, which is probably a mistake on most systems. Warning and
critical are the number of seconds a prepared transaction has been open before an alert is given.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning on detecting any prepared transactions:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_prepared_txns -w 0</pre>
<p>Example 2: Give a critical if any prepared transaction has been open longer than 10 seconds, but allow
up to 360 seconds for the database 'shrike':</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_listener --critical=10 --exclude=shrike
check_postgres_listener --critical=360 --include=shrike</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the number of seconds the oldest transaction has been open as the first line,
and which database is came from as the final line.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="query_runtime"><strong>query_runtime</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_query_runtime</code>) Checks how long a specific query takes to run, by executing a "EXPLAIN ANALYZE"
against it. The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are the maximum amount of
time the query should take. Valid units are seconds, minutes, and hours; any can be
abbreviated to the first letter. If no units are given, 'seconds' are assumed.
Both the warning and the critical option must be given. The name of the view or
function to be run must be passed in to the <em>--queryname</em> option. It must consist
of a single word (or schema.word), with optional parens at the end.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a critical if the function named "speedtest" fails to run in 10 seconds or less.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_query_runtime --queryname='speedtest()' --critical=10 --warning=10</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, reports the time in seconds for the query to complete on the first line. The fourth
line lists the database.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="query_time"><strong>query_time</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_query_time</code>) Checks the length of running queries on one or more databases. There is
no need to run this more than once on the same database cluster.
Databases can be filtered
by using the <em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options. See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a>
section for more details. You can also filter on the user running the
query with the <em>--includeuser</em> and <em>--excludeuser</em> options.
See the <a href="#user_name_filtering">USER NAME FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>The values for the <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are amounts of
time, and default to '2 minutes' and '5 minutes' respectively. Valid units
are 'seconds', 'minutes', 'hours', or 'days'. Each may be written singular or
abbreviated to just the first letter. If no units are given, the unit is
assumed to be seconds.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning if any query has been running longer than 3 minutes, and a critical if longer than 5 minutes.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_query_time --port=5432 --warning='3 minutes' --critical='5 minutes'</pre>
<p>Example 2: Using default values (2 and 5 minutes), check all databases except those starting with 'template'.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_query_time --port=5432 --exclude=~^template</pre>
<p>Example 3: Warn if user 'don' has a query running over 20 seconds</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_query_time --port=5432 --includeuser=don --warning=20s</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the length in seconds of the longest running query on the first line. The fourth
line gives the name of the database.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="replicate_row"><strong>replicate_row</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_replicate_row</code>) Checks that master-slave replication is working to one or more slaves.
The slaves are specified the same as the normal databases, except with
the number 2 at the end of them, so "--port2" instead of "--port", etc.
The values or the <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are units of time, and
at least one must be provided (no defaults). Valid units are 'seconds', 'minutes', 'hours',
or 'days'. Each may be written singular or abbreviated to just the first letter.
If no units are given, the units are assumed to be seconds.</p>
<p>This check updates a single row on the master, and then measures how long it
takes to be applied to the slaves. To do this, you need to pick a table that
is being replicated, then find a row that can be changed, and is not going
to be changed by any other process. A specific column of this row will be changed
from one value to another. All of this is fed to the <code>repinfo</code> option, and should
contain the following options, separated by commas: table name, primary key, key id,
column, first value, second value.</p>
<p>Example 1: Slony is replicating a table named 'orders' from host 'alpha' to
host 'beta', in the database 'sales'. The primary key of the table is named
id, and we are going to test the row with an id of 3 (which is historical and
never changed). There is a column named 'salesrep' that we are going to toggle
from a value of 'slon' to 'nols' to check on the replication. We want to throw
a warning if the replication does not happen within 10 seconds.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_replicate_row --host=alpha --dbname=sales --host2=beta
--dbname2=sales --warning=10 --repinfo=orders,id,3,salesrep,slon,nols</pre>
<p>Example 2: Bucardo is replicating a table named 'receipt' from host 'green'
to hosts 'red', 'blue', and 'yellow'. The database for both sides is 'public'.
The slave databases are running on port 5455. The primary key is named 'receipt_id',
the row we want to use has a value of 9, and the column we want to change for the
test is called 'zone'. We'll toggle between 'north' and 'south' for the value of
this column, and throw a critical if the change is not on all three slaves within 5 seconds.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_replicate_row --host=green --port2=5455 --host2=red,blue,yellow
--critical=5 --repinfo=receipt,receipt_id,9,zone,north,south</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns on the first line the time in seconds the replication takes to finish.
The maximum time is set to 4 minutes 30 seconds: if no replication has taken place in that long
a time, an error is thrown.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="same_schema"><strong>same_schema</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_same_schema</code>) Verifies that two databases are identical as far as their
schema (but not the data within). This is particularly handy for making sure your slaves have not
been modified or corrupted in any way when using master to slave replication. Unlike most other
actions, this has no warning or critical criteria - the databases are either in sync, or are not.
If they are not, a detailed list of the differences is presented. To make the list more readable,
provide a <code>--verbose</code> argument, which will output one item per line.</p>
<p>You may want to exclude or filter out certain differences. The way to do this is to add strings
to the <code>--warning</code> option. To exclude a type of object, use "noobjectnames". To exclude
objects of a certain type by a regular expression against their name, use "noobjectname=regex".
See the examples for a better understanding.</p>
<p>You may exclude all objects of a certain name by using the <code>exclude</code> option. It takes a Perl
regular expression as its argument.</p>
<p>The types of objects that can be filtered are:</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong><a name="user" class="item">user</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="schema" class="item">schema</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="table" class="item">table</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="view" class="item">view</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="index" class="item">index</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="sequence" class="item">sequence</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="constraint" class="item">constraint</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="trigger" class="item">trigger</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="function" class="item">function</a></strong></dt>
</dl>
<p>The filter option "noposition" prevents verification of the position of
columns within a table.</p>
<p>The filter option "nofuncbody" prevents comparison of the bodies of all
functions.</p>
<p>The filter option "noperms" prevents comparison of object permissions.</p>
<p>The filter option "nolanguage" prevents comparison of language existence.</p>
<p>You must provide information on how to reach the second database by a connection
parameter ending in the number 2, such as "--dbport2=5543". If if it not given,
it uses the the same information as database number 1, or the default if neither
is given.</p>
<p>Example 1: Verify that two databases on hosts star and line are the same:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_same_schema --dbhost=star --dbhost2=line</pre>
<p>Example 2: Same as before, but exclude any triggers with "slony" in their name</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_same_schema --dbhost=star --dbhost2=line --warning="notrigger=slony"</pre>
<p>Example 3: Same as before, but also exclude all indexes</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_same_schema --dbhost=star --dbhost2=line --warning="notrigger=slony noindexes"</pre>
<p>Example 4: Don't show anything starting with "pg_catalog"</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_same_schema --dbhost=star --dbhost2=line --exclude="^pg_catalog"</pre>
<p>Example 5: Check differences for the database "battlestar" on different ports</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_same_schema --dbname=battlestar --dbport=5432 --dbport2=5544</pre>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="sequence"><strong>sequence</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_sequence</code>) Checks how much room is left on all sequences in the database.
This is measured as the percent of total possible values that have been used for each sequence.
The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options should be expressed as percentages. The default values
are <strong>85%</strong> for the warning and <strong>95%</strong> for the critical. You may use --include and --exclude to
control which sequences are to be checked. Note that this check does account for unusual <strong>minvalue</strong>
and <strong>increment by</strong> values, but does not care if the sequence is set to cycle or not.</p>
<p>The output for Nagios gives the name of the sequence, the percentage used, and the number of 'calls'
left, indicating how many more times nextval can be called on that sequence before running into
the maximum value.</p>
<p>The output for MRTG returns the highest percentage across all sequences on the first line, and
the name of each sequence with that percentage on the fourth line, separated by a "|" (pipe)
if there are more than one sequence at that percentage.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning if any sequences are approaching 95% full.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_sequence --dbport=5432 --warning=95%</pre>
<p>Example 2: Check that the sequence named "orders_id_seq" is not more than half full.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_sequence --dbport=5432 --critical=50% --include=orders_id_seq</pre>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="settings_checksum"><strong>settings_checksum</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_settings_checksum</code>) Checks that all the Postgres settings are the same as last time you checked.
This is done by generating a checksum of a sorted list of setting names and
their values. Note that different users in the same database may have different
checksums, due to ALTER USER usage, and due to the fact that superusers see more
settings than ordinary users. Either the <em>--warning</em> or the <em>--critical</em> option
should be given, but not both. The value of each one is the checksum, a
32-character hexadecimal value. You can run with the special <code>--critical=0</code> option
to find out an existing checksum.</p>
<p>This action requires the Digest::MD5 module.</p>
<p>Example 1: Find the initial checksum for the database on port 5555 using the default user (usually postgres)</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_settings_checksum --port=5555 --critical=0</pre>
<p>Example 2: Make sure no settings have changed and warn if so, using the checksum from above.</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_settings_checksum --port=5555 --warning=cd2f3b5e129dc2b4f5c0f6d8d2e64231</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns a 1 or 0 indicating success of failure of the checksum to match. A
checksum must be provided as the <code>--mrtg</code> argument. The fourth line always gives the
current checksum.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="slony_status"><strong>slony_status</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_slony_status</code>) Checks in the status of a Slony cluster by looking
at the results of Slony's sl_status view. This is returned as the number of seconds of "lag time".
The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options should be expressed as times. The default values
are <strong>60 seconds</strong> for the warning and <strong>300 seconds</strong> for the critical.</p>
<p>The optional argument <em>--schema</em> indicated the schema that Slony is installed under. If it is
not given, the schema will be determined automatically each time this check is run.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning if any Slony is lagged by more than 20 seconds</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_slony_status --warning 20</pre>
<p>Example 2: Give a critical if Slony, installed under the schema "_slony", is over 10 minutes lagged</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_slony_status --schema=_slony --critical=600</pre>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="timesync"><strong>timesync</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_timesync</code>) Compares the local system time with the time reported by one or more databases.
The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options represent the number of seconds between
the two systems before an alert is given. If neither is specified, the default values
are used, which are '2' and '5'. The warning value cannot be greater than the critical
value. Due to the non-exact nature of this test, values of '0' or '1' are not recommended.</p>
<p>The string returned shows the time difference as well as the time on each side written out.</p>
<p>Example 1: Check that databases on hosts ankh, morpork, and klatch are no more than 3 seconds off from the local time:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_timesync --host=ankh,morpork,klatch --critical=3</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns one the first line the number of seconds difference between the local
time and the database time. The fourth line returns the name of the database.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="txn_idle"><strong>txn_idle</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_txn_idle</code>) Checks the length of "idle in transaction" queries on one or more databases. There is
no need to run this more than once on the same database cluster. Databases can be filtered
by using the <em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options. See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a>
section below for more details.</p>
<p>The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are given as units of time, and both must
be provided (there are no defaults). Valid units are 'seconds', 'minutes', 'hours',
or 'days'. Each may be written singular or abbreviated to just the first letter.
If no units are given, the units are assumed to be seconds.</p>
<p>This action requires Postgres 8.0 or better. Additionally, if the version is less than 8.3,
the 'stats_command_string' parameter must be set to 'on'.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning if any connection has been idle in transaction for more than 15 seconds:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_txn_idle --port=5432 --warning='15 seconds'</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the time in seconds the longest idle transaction has been running. The fourth
line returns the name of the database.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="txn_time"><strong>txn_time</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_txn_time</code>) Checks the length of open transactions on one or more databases.
There is no need to run this command more than once per database cluster.
Databases can be filtered by use of the
<em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> options. See the <a href="#basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a> section
for more details. The owner of the transaction can also be filtered, by use of
the <em>--includeuser</em> and <em>--excludeuser</em> options.
See the <a href="#user_name_filtering">USER NAME FILTERING</a> section for more details.</p>
<p>The values or the <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are units of time, and
must be provided (no default). Valid units are 'seconds', 'minutes', 'hours',
or 'days'. Each may be written singular or abbreviated to just the first letter.
If no units are given, the units are assumed to be seconds.</p>
<p>This action requires Postgres 8.3 or better.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a critical if any transaction has been open for more than 10 minutes:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_txn_time --port=5432 --critical='10 minutes'</pre>
<p>Example 1: Warn if user 'warehouse' has a transaction open over 30 seconds</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_txn_time --port-5432 --warning=30s --includeuser=warehouse</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the maximum time in seconds a transaction has been open on the
first line. The fourth line gives the name of the database.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="txn_wraparound"><strong>txn_wraparound</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_txn_wraparound</code>) Checks how close to transaction wraparound one or more databases are getting.
The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options indicate the number of transactions done, and must be a positive integer.
If either option is not given, the default values of 1.3 and 1.4 billion are used. There is no need to run this command
more than once per database cluster. For a more detailed discussion of what this number represents and what to do about
it, please visit the page
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/routine-vacuuming.html#VACUUM-FOR-WRAPAROUND</a></p>
<p>The warning and critical values can have underscores in the number for legibility, as Perl does.</p>
<p>Example 1: Check the default values for the localhost database</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_txn_wraparound --host=localhost</pre>
<p>Example 2: Check port 6000 and give a critical when 1.7 billion transactions are hit:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_txn_wraparound --port=6000 --critical=1_700_000_000</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, returns the highest number of transactions for all databases on line one,
while line 4 indicates which database it is.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="version"><strong>version</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_version</code>) Checks that the required version of Postgres is running. The
<em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options (only one is required) must be of
the format <strong>X.Y</strong> or <strong>X.Y.Z</strong> where <strong>X</strong> is the major version number,
<strong>Y</strong> is the minor version number, and <strong>Z</strong> is the revision.</p>
<p>Example 1: Give a warning if the database on port 5678 is not version 8.4.10:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_version --port=5678 -w=8.4.10</pre>
<p>Example 2: Give a warning if any databases on hosts valley,grain, or sunshine is not 8.3:</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_version -H valley,grain,sunshine --critical=8.3</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, reports a 1 or a 0 indicating success or failure on the first line. The
fourth line indicates the current version. The version must be provided via the <code>--mrtg</code> option.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="wal_files"><strong>wal_files</strong></a></h2>
<p>(<code>symlink: check_postgres_wal_files</code>) Checks how many WAL files exist in the <em class="file">pg_xlog</em> directory, which is found
off of your <strong>data_directory</strong>, sometimes as a symlink to another physical disk for
performance reasons. This action must be run as a superuser, in order to access the
contents of the <em class="file">pg_xlog</em> directory. The minimum version to use this action is
Postgres 8.1. The <em>--warning</em> and <em>--critical</em> options are simply the number of
files in the <em class="file">pg_xlog</em> directory. What number to set this to will vary, but a general
guideline is to put a number slightly higher than what is normally there, to catch
problems early.</p>
<p>Normally, WAL files are closed and then re-used, but a long-running open
transaction, or a faulty <strong>archive_command</strong> script, may cause Postgres to
create too many files. Ultimately, this will cause the disk they are on to run
out of space, at which point Postgres will shut down.</p>
<p>Example 1: Check that the number of WAL files is 20 or less on host "pluto"</p>
<pre>
check_postgres_wal_files --host=pluto --critical=20</pre>
<p>For MRTG output, reports the number of WAL files on line 1.</p>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="rebuild_symlinks"><strong>rebuild_symlinks</strong></a></h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2><a name="rebuild_symlinks_force"><strong>rebuild_symlinks_force</strong></a></h2>
<p>This action requires no other arguments, and does not connect to any databases,
but simply creates symlinks in the current directory for each action, in the form
<strong>check_postgres_<action_name></strong>.
If the file already exists, it will not be overwritten. If the action is rebuild_symlinks_force,
then symlinks will be overwritten. The option --symlinks is a shorter way of saying
--action=rebuild_symlinks</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="basic_filtering">BASIC FILTERING</a></h1>
<p>The options <em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> can be combined to limit which
things are checked, depending on the action. The name of the database can
be filtered when using the following actions:
backends, database_size, locks, query_time, txn_idle, and txn_time.
The name of a relation can be filtered when using the following actions:
bloat, index_size, table_size, relation_size, last_vacuum, last_autovacuum,
last_analyze, and last_autoanalyze.
The name of a setting can be filtered when using the settings_checksum action.
The name of a file system can be filtered when using the disk_space action.</p>
<p>If only an include option is given, then ONLY those entries that match will be
checked. However, if given both exclude and include, the exclusion is done first,
and the inclusion after, to reinstate things that may have been excluded. Both
<em>--include</em> and <em>--exclude</em> can be given multiple times,
and/or as comma-separated lists. A leading tilde will match the following word
as a regular expression.</p>
<p>To match a schema, end the search term with a single period. Leading tildes can
be used for schemas as well.</p>
<p>Be careful when using filtering: an inclusion rule on the backends, for example,
may report no problems not only because the matching database had no backends,
but because you misspelled the name of the database!</p>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>Only checks items named pg_class:</p>
<pre>
--include=pg_class</pre>
<p>Only checks items containing the letters 'pg_':</p>
<pre>
--include=~pg_</pre>
<p>Only check items beginning with 'pg_':</p>
<pre>
--include=~^pg_</pre>
<p>Exclude the item named 'test':</p>
<pre>
--exclude=test</pre>
<p>Exclude all items containing the letters 'test:</p>
<pre>
--exclude=~test</pre>
<p>Exclude all items in the schema 'pg_catalog':</p>
<pre>
--exclude='pg_catalog.'</pre>
<p>Exclude all items containing the letters 'ace', but allow the item 'faceoff':</p>
<pre>
--exclude=~ace --include=faceoff</pre>
<p>Exclude all items which start with the letters 'pg_', which contain the letters 'slon',
or which are named 'sql_settings' or 'green'. Specifically check items with the letters 'prod' in their names, and always check the item named 'pg_relname':</p>
<pre>
--exclude=~^pg_,~slon,sql_settings --exclude=green --include=~prod,pg_relname</pre>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="user_name_filtering">USER NAME FILTERING</a></h1>
<p>The options <em>--includeuser</em> and <em>--excludeuser</em> can be used on some actions
to only examine database objects owned by (or not owned by) one or more users.
An <em>--includeuser</em> option always trumps an <em>--excludeuser</em> option. You can
give each option more than once for multiple users, or you can give a
comma-separated list. The actions that currently use these options are:</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong><a name="database_size" class="item">database_size</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="last_analyze" class="item">last_analyze</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="last_autoanalyze" class="item">last_autoanalyze</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="last_vacuum" class="item">last_vacuum</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="last_autovacuum" class="item">last_autovacuum</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="query_time" class="item">query_time</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="relation_size" class="item">relation_size</a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="txn_time" class="item">txn_time</a></strong></dt>
</dl>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>Only check items owned by the user named greg:</p>
<pre>
--includeuser=greg</pre>
<p>Only check items owned by either watson or crick:</p>
<pre>
--includeuser=watson,crick</pre>
<p>Only check items owned by crick,franklin, watson, or wilkins:</p>
<pre>
--includeuser=watson --includeuser=franklin --includeuser=crick,wilkins</pre>
<p>Check all items except for those belonging to the user scott:</p>
<pre>
--excludeuser=scott</pre>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="test_mode">TEST MODE</a></h1>
<p>To help in setting things up, this program can be run in a "test mode" by
specifying the <em>--test</em> option. This will perform some basic tests to
make sure that the databases can be contacted, and that certain per-action
prerequisites are met, such as whether the user is a superuser, if the version
of Postgres is new enough, and if stats_row_level is enabled.</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="files">FILES</a></h1>
<p>In addition to command-line configurations, you can put any options inside of a file. The file
<em class="file">.check_postgresrc</em> in the current directory will be used if found. If not found, then the file
<em class="file">~/.check_postgresrc</em> will be used. Finally, the file /etc/check_postgresrc will be used if available.
The format of the file is option = value, one per line. Any line starting with a '#' will be skipped.
Any values loaded from a check_postgresrc file will be overwritten by command-line options. All
check_postgresrc files can be ignored by supplying a <code>--no-checkpostgresrc</code> argument.</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="environment_variables">ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES</a></h1>
<p>The environment variable <em>$ENV{HOME}</em> is used to look for a <em class="file">.check_postgresrc</em> file.</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="tips_and_tricks">TIPS AND TRICKS</a></h1>
<p>Since this program uses the <strong>psql</strong> program, make sure it is accessible to the
user running the script. If run as a cronjob, this often means modifying the
<strong>PATH</strong> environment variable.</p>
<p>If you are using Nagios in embedded Perl mode, use the <code>--action</code> argument
instead of symlinks, so that the plugin only gets compiled one time.</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="dependencies">DEPENDENCIES</a></h1>
<p>Access to a working version of psql, and the following very standard Perl modules:</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong><a name="cwd" class="item"><strong>Cwd</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="getopt_long" class="item"><strong>Getopt::Long</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="file_basename" class="item"><strong>File::Basename</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="file_temp" class="item"><strong>File::Temp</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dt><strong><a name="hires" class="item"><strong>Time::HiRes</strong> (if <code>$opt{showtime}</code> is set to true, which is the default)</a></strong></dt>
</dl>
<p>The <a href="#settings_checksum">settings_checksum</a> action requires the <strong>Digest::MD5</strong> module.</p>
<p>The <a href="#checkpoint">checkpoint</a> action requires the <strong>Date::Parse</strong> module.</p>
<p>Some actions require access to external programs. If psql is not explicitly
specified, the command <strong><code>which</code></strong> is used to find it. The program <strong><code>/bin/df</code></strong>
is needed by the <a href="#disk_space">disk_space</a> action.</p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="development">DEVELOPMENT</a></h1>
<p>Development happens using the git system. You can clone the latest version by doing:</p>
<pre>
git clone git://bucardo.org/check_postgres.git</pre>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="mailing_list">MAILING LIST</a></h1>
<p>Three mailing lists are available. For discussions about the program, bug reports,
feature requests, and commit notices, send email to <a href="mailto:check_postgres@bucardo.org">check_postgres@bucardo.org</a></p>
<p><a href="https://mail.endcrypt.com/mailman/listinfo/check_postgres">https://mail.endcrypt.com/mailman/listinfo/check_postgres</a></p>
<p>A low-volume list for announcement of new versions and important notices is the
'check_postgres-announce' list:</p>
<p><a href="https://mail.endcrypt.com/mailman/listinfo/check_postgres-announce">https://mail.endcrypt.com/mailman/listinfo/check_postgres-announce</a></p>
<p>Source code changes (via git-commit) are sent to the
'check_postgres-commit' list:</p>
<p><a href="https://mail.endcrypt.com/mailman/listinfo/check_postgres-commit">https://mail.endcrypt.com/mailman/listinfo/check_postgres-commit</a></p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="history">HISTORY</a></h1>
<p>Items not specifically attributed are by Greg Sabino Mullane.</p>
<dl>
<dt><strong><a name="version_2_16_0" class="item"><strong>Version 2.16.0</strong></a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add new action 'hot_standby_delay' (Nicolas Thauvin)
Add cache-busting for the version-grabbing utilities.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="version_2_15_4_january_3_2011" class="item"><strong>Version 2.15.4</strong> January 3, 2011</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix warning when using symlinks
(Greg Sabino Mullane, reported by Peter Eisentraut in bug #63)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="version_2_15_3_december_30_2010" class="item"><strong>Version 2.15.3</strong> December 30, 2010</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Show OK for no matching txn_idle entries.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="version_2_15_2_december_28_2010" class="item"><strong>Version 2.15.2</strong> December 28, 2010</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Better formatting of sizes in the bloat action output.</pre>
<pre>
Remove duplicate perfs in bloat action output.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="version_2_15_1_december_27_2010" class="item"><strong>Version 2.15.1</strong> December 27, 2010</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix problem when examining items in pg_settings (Greg Sabino Mullane)</pre>
<pre>
For connection test, return critical, not unknown, on FATAL errors
(Greg Sabino Mullane, reported by Peter Eisentraut in bug #62)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="version_2_15_0_november_8_2010" class="item"><strong>Version 2.15.0</strong> November 8, 2010</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add --quiet argument to suppress output on OK Nagios results
Add index comparison for same_schema (Norman Yamada and Greg Sabino Mullane)
Use $ENV{PGSERVICE} instead of "service=" to prevent problems (Guillaume Lelarge)
Add --man option to show the entire manual. (Andy Lester)
Redo the internal run_command() sub to use -x and hashes instead of regexes.
Fix error in custom logic (Andreas Mager)
Add the "pgbouncer_checksum" action (Guillaume Lelarge)
Fix regex to work on WIN32 for check_fsm_relations and check_fsm_pages (Luke Koops)
Don't apply a LIMIT when using --exclude on the bloat action (Marti Raudsepp)
Change the output of query_time to show pid,user,port, and address (Giles Westwood)
Fix to show database properly when using slony_status (Guillaume Lelarge)
Allow warning items for same_schema to be comma-separated (Guillaume Lelarge)
Constraint definitions across Postgres versions match better in same_schema.
Work against "EnterpriseDB" databases (Sivakumar Krishnamurthy and Greg Sabino Mullane)
Separate perfdata with spaces (Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais)
Add new action "archive_ready" (Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="3" class="item"><strong>Version 2.14.3</strong> (March 1, 2010)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow slony_status action to handle more than one slave.
Use commas to separate function args in same_schema output (Robert Treat)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="2" class="item"><strong>Version 2.14.2</strong> (February 18, 2010)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Change autovac_freeze default warn/critical back to 90%/95% (Robert Treat)
Put all items one-per-line for relation size actions if --verbose=1</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="1" class="item"><strong>Version 2.14.1</strong> (February 17, 2010)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Don't use $^T in logfile check, as script may be long-running
Change the error string for the logfile action for easier exclusion
by programs like tail_n_mail</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="0" class="item"><strong>Version 2.14.0</strong> (February 11, 2010)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Added the 'slony_status' action.
Changed the logfile sleep from 0.5 to 1, as 0.5 gets rounded to 0 on some boxes!</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.13.2</strong> (February 4, 2010)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow timeout option to be used for logtime 'sleep' time.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.13.2</strong> (February 4, 2010)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Show offending database for query_time action.
Apply perflimit to main output for sequence action.
Add 'noowner' option to same_schema action.
Raise sleep timeout for logfile check to 15 seconds.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.13.1</strong> (February 2, 2010)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix bug preventing column constraint differences from 2 > 1 for same_schema from being shown.
Allow aliases 'dbname1', 'dbhost1', 'dbport1',etc.
Added "nolanguage" as a filter for the same_schema option.
Don't track "generic" table constraints (e.. $1, $2) using same_schema</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.13.0</strong> (January 29, 2010)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow "nofunctions" as a filter for the same_schema option.
Added "noperm" as a filter for the same_schema option.
Ignore dropped columns when considered positions for same_schema (Guillaume Lelarge)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.12.1</strong> (December 3, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Change autovac_freeze default warn/critical from 90%/95% to 105%/120% (Marti Raudsepp)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.12.0</strong> (December 3, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow the temporary directory to be specified via the "tempdir" argument,
for systems that need it (e.g. /tmp is not owned by root).
Fix so old versions of Postgres (< 8.0) use the correct default database (Giles Westwood)
For "same_schema" trigger mismatches, show the attached table.
Add the new_version_bc check for Bucardo version checking.
Add database name to perf output for last_vacuum|analyze (Guillaume Lelarge)
Fix for bloat action against old versions of Postgres without the 'block_size' param.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.11.1</strong> (August 27, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Proper Nagios output for last_vacuum|analyze actions. (Cédric Villemain)
Proper Nagios output for locks action. (Cédric Villemain)
Proper Nagios output for txn_wraparound action. (Cédric Villemain)
Fix for constraints with embedded newlines for same_schema.
Allow --exclude for all items when using same_schema.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.11.0</strong> (August 23, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add Nagios perf output to the wal_files check (Cédric Villemain)
Add support for .check_postgresrc, per request from Albe Laurenz.
Allow list of web fetch methods to be changed with the --get_method option.
Add support for the --language argument, which overrides any ENV.
Add the --no-check_postgresrc flag.
Ensure check_postgresrc options are completely overridden by command-line options.
Fix incorrect warning > critical logic in replicate_rows (Glyn Astill)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.10.0</strong> (August 3, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
For same_schema, compare view definitions, and compare languages.
Make script into a global executable via the Makefile.PL file.
Better output when comparing two databases.
Proper Nagios output syntax for autovac_freeze and backends checks (Cédric Villemain)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="5" class="item"><strong>Version 2.9.5</strong> (July 24, 2009)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Don't use a LIMIT in check_bloat if --include is used. Per complaint from Jeff Frost.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="4" class="item"><strong>Version 2.9.4</strong> (July 21, 2009)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
More French translations (Guillaume Lelarge)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.9.3</strong> (July 14, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Quote dbname in perf output for the backends check. (Davide Abrigo)
Add 'fetch' as an alternative method for new_version checks, as this
comes by default with FreeBSD. (Hywell Mallett)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.9.2</strong> (July 12, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow dots and dashes in database name for the backends check (Davide Abrigo)
Check and display the database for each match in the bloat check (Cédric Villemain)
Handle 'too many connections' FATAL error in the backends check with a critical,
rather than a generic error (Greg, idea by Jürgen Schulz-Brüssel)
Do not allow perflimit to interfere with exclusion rules in the vacuum and
analyze tests. (Greg, bug reported by Jeff Frost)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.9.1</strong> (June 12, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix for multiple databases with the check_bloat action (Mark Kirkwood)
Fixes and improvements to the same_schema action (Jeff Boes)
Write tests for same_schema, other minor test fixes (Jeff Boes)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.9.0</strong> (May 28, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Added the same_schema action (Greg)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.8.1</strong> (May 15, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Added timeout via statement_timeout in addition to perl alarm (Greg)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.8.0</strong> (May 4, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Added internationalization support (Greg)
Added the 'disabled_triggers' check (Greg)
Added the 'prepared_txns' check (Greg)
Added the 'new_version_cp' and 'new_version_pg' checks (Greg)
French translations (Guillaume Lelarge)
Make the backends search return ok if no matches due to inclusion rules,
per report by Guillaume Lelarge (Greg)
Added comprehensive unit tests (Greg, Jeff Boes, Selena Deckelmann)
Make fsm_pages and fsm_relations handle 8.4 servers smoothly. (Greg)
Fix missing 'upd' field in show_dbstats (Andras Fabian)
Allow ENV{PGCONTROLDATA} and ENV{PGBINDIR}. (Greg)
Add various Perl module infrastructure (e.g. Makefile.PL) (Greg)
Fix incorrect regex in txn_wraparound (Greg)
For txn_wraparound: consistent ordering and fix duplicates in perf output (Andras Fabian)
Add in missing exabyte regex check (Selena Deckelmann)
Set stats to zero if we bail early due to USERWHERECLAUSE (Andras Fabian)
Add additional items to dbstats output (Andras Fabian)
Remove --schema option from the fsm_ checks. (Greg Mullane and Robert Treat)
Handle case when ENV{PGUSER} is set. (Andy Lester)
Many various fixes. (Jeff Boes)
Fix --dbservice: check version and use ENV{PGSERVICE} for old versions (Cédric Villemain)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.7.3</strong> (February 10, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Make the sequence action check if sequence being used for a int4 column and
react appropriately. (Michael Glaesemann)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.7.2</strong> (February 9, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix to prevent multiple groupings if db arguments given.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.7.1</strong> (February 6, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow the -p argument for port to work again.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.7.0</strong> (February 4, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Do not require a connection argument, but use defaults and ENV variables when
possible: PGHOST, PGPORT, PGUSER, PGDATABASE.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.6.1</strong> (February 4, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Only require Date::Parse to be loaded if using the checkpoint action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.6.0</strong> (January 26, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add the 'checkpoint' action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.5.4</strong> (January 7, 2009)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Better checking of $opt{dbservice} structure (Cédric Villemain)
Fix time display in timesync action output (Selena Deckelmann)
Fix documentation typos (Josh Tolley)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.5.3</strong> (December 17, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Minor fix to regex in verify_version (Lee Jensen)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.5.2</strong> (December 16, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Minor documentation tweak.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.5.1</strong> (December 11, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add support for --noidle flag to prevent backends action from counting idle processes.
Patch by Selena Deckelmann.</pre>
<pre>
Fix small undefined warning when not using --dbservice.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.5.0</strong> (December 4, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add support for the pg_Service.conf file with the --dbservice option.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.4.3</strong> (November 7, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix options for replicate_row action, per report from Jason Gordon.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.4.2</strong> (November 6, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Wrap File::Temp::cleanup() calls in eval, in case File::Temp is an older version.
Patch by Chris Butler.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.4.1</strong> (November 5, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Cast numbers to numeric to support sequences ranges > bigint in check_sequence action.
Thanks to Scott Marlowe for reporting this.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.4.0</strong> (October 26, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add Cacti support with the dbstats action.
Pretty up the time output for last vacuum and analyze actions.
Show the percentage of backends on the check_backends action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="10" class="item"><strong>Version 2.3.10</strong> (October 23, 2008)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix minor warning in action check_bloat with multiple databases.
Allow warning to be greater than critical when using the --reverse option.
Support the --perflimit option for the check_sequence action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="9" class="item"><strong>Version 2.3.9</strong> (October 23, 2008)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Minor tweak to way we store the default port.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="8" class="item"><strong>Version 2.3.8</strong> (October 21, 2008)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow the default port to be changed easily.
Allow transform of simple output by MB, GB, etc.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="7" class="item"><strong>Version 2.3.7</strong> (October 14, 2008)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow multiple databases in 'sequence' action. Reported by Christoph Zwerschke.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="6" class="item"><strong>Version 2.3.6</strong> (October 13, 2008)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add missing $schema to check_fsm_pages. (Robert Treat)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.3.5</strong> (October 9, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Change option 'checktype' to 'valtype' to prevent collisions with -c[ritical]
Better handling of errors.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.3.4</strong> (October 9, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Do explicit cleanups of the temp directory, per problems reported by sb@nnx.com.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.3.3</strong> (October 8, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Account for cases where some rounding queries give -0 instead of 0.
Thanks to Glyn Astill for helping to track this down.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.3.2</strong> (October 8, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Always quote identifiers in check_replicate_row action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.3.1</strong> (October 7, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Give a better error if one of the databases cannot be reached.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.3.0</strong> (October 4, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add the "sequence" action, thanks to Gavin M. Roy for the idea.
Fix minor problem with autovac_freeze action when using MRTG output.
Allow output argument to be case-insensitive.
Documentation fixes.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.2.4</strong> (October 3, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix some minor typos</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.2.3</strong> (October 1, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Expand range of allowed names for --repinfo argument (Glyn Astill)
Documentation tweaks.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.2.2</strong> (September 30, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fixes for minor output and scoping problems.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.2.1</strong> (September 28, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add MRTG output to fsm_pages and fsm_relations.
Force error messages to one-line for proper Nagios output.
Check for invalid prereqs on failed command. From conversations with Euler Taveira de Oliveira.
Tweak the fsm_pages formula a little.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.2.0</strong> (September 25, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add fsm_pages and fsm_relations actions. (Robert Treat)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.1.4</strong> (September 22, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix for race condition in txn_time action.
Add --debugoutput option.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.1.3</strong> (September 22, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow alternate arguments "dbhost" for "host" and "dbport" for "port".
Output a zero as default value for second line of MRTG output.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.1.2</strong> (July 28, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix sorting error in the "disk_space" action for non-Nagios output.
Allow --simple as a shortcut for --output=simple.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.1.1</strong> (July 22, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Don't check databases with datallowconn false for the "autovac_freeze" action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.1.0</strong> (July 18, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add the "autovac_freeze" action, thanks to Robert Treat for the idea and design.
Put an ORDER BY on the "txn_wraparound" action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.0.1</strong> (July 16, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Optimizations to speed up the "bloat" action quite a bit.
Fix "version" action to not always output in mrtg mode.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 2.0.0</strong> (July 15, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add support for MRTG and "simple" output options.
Many small improvements to nearly all actions.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.9.1</strong> (June 24, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix an error in the bloat SQL in 1.9.0
Allow percentage arguments to be over 99%
Allow percentages in the bloat --warning and --critical (thanks to Robert Treat for the idea)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.9.0</strong> (June 22, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Don't include information_schema in certain checks. (Jeff Frost)
Allow --include and --exclude to use schemas by using a trailing period.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.8.5</strong> (June 22, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Output schema name before table name where appropriate.
Thanks to Jeff Frost.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.8.4</strong> (June 19, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Better detection of problems in --replicate_row.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.8.3</strong> (June 18, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix 'backends' action: there may be no rows in pg_stat_activity, so run a second
query if needed to find the max_connections setting.
Thanks to Jeff Frost for the bug report.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.8.2</strong> (June 10, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Changes to allow working under Nagios' embedded Perl mode. (Ioannis Tambouras)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.8.1</strong> (June 9, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Allow 'bloat' action to work on Postgres version 8.0.
Allow for different commands to be run for each action depending on the server version.
Give better warnings when running actions not available on older Postgres servers.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.8.0</strong> (June 3, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add the --reverse option to the custom_query action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.7.1</strong> (June 2, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix 'query_time' action: account for race condition in which zero rows appear in pg_stat_activity.
Thanks to Dustin Black for the bug report.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.7.0</strong> (May 11, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add --replicate_row action</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.6.1</strong> (May 11, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add --symlinks option as a shortcut to --action=rebuild_symlinks</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.6.0</strong> (May 11, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add the custom_query action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.5.2</strong> (May 2, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix problem with too eager creation of custom pgpass file.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.5.1</strong> (April 17, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add example Nagios configuration settings (Brian A. Seklecki)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.5.0</strong> (April 16, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add the --includeuser and --excludeuser options. Documentation cleanup.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.4.3</strong> (April 16, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add in the 'output' concept for future support of non-Nagios programs.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.4.2</strong> (April 8, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix bug preventing --dbpass argument from working (Robert Treat).</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.4.1</strong> (April 4, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Minor documentation fixes.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.4.0</strong> (April 2, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Have 'wal_files' action use pg_ls_dir (idea by Robert Treat).
For last_vacuum and last_analyze, respect autovacuum effects, add separate
autovacuum checks (ideas by Robert Treat).</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.3.1</strong> (April 2, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Have txn_idle use query_start, not xact_start.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.3.0</strong> (March 23, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add in txn_idle and txn_time actions.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.2.0</strong> (February 21, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Add the 'wal_files' action, which counts the number of WAL files
in your pg_xlog directory.
Fix some typos in the docs.
Explicitly allow -v as an argument.
Allow for a null syslog_facility in the 'logfile' action.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.1.2</strong> (February 5, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fix error preventing --action=rebuild_symlinks from working.</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.1.1</strong> (February 3, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Switch vacuum and analyze date output to use 'DD', not 'D'. (Glyn Astill)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><strong>Version 1.1.0</strong> (December 16, 2008)</strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
Fixes, enhancements, and performance tracking.
Add performance data tracking via --showperf and --perflimit
Lots of refactoring and cleanup of how actions handle arguments.
Do basic checks to figure out syslog file for 'logfile' action.
Allow for exact matching of beta versions with 'version' action.
Redo the default arguments to only populate when neither 'warning' nor 'critical' is provided.
Allow just warning OR critical to be given for the 'timesync' action.
Remove 'redirect_stderr' requirement from 'logfile' due to 8.3 changes.
Actions 'last_vacuum' and 'last_analyze' are 8.2 only (Robert Treat)</pre>
</dd>
<dt><strong><a name="16" class="item"><strong>Version 1.0.16</strong> (December 7, 2007)</a></strong></dt>
<dd>
<pre>
First public release, December 2007</pre>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="bugs_and_limitations">BUGS AND LIMITATIONS</a></h1>
<p>The index bloat size optimization is rough.</p>
<p>Some actions may not work on older versions of Postgres (before 8.0).</p>
<p>Please report any problems to <a href="mailto:check_postgres@bucardo.org">check_postgres@bucardo.org</a></p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="author">AUTHOR</a></h1>
<p>Greg Sabino Mullane <<a href="mailto:greg@endpoint.com">greg@endpoint.com</a>></p>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="nagios_examples">NAGIOS EXAMPLES</a></h1>
<p>Some example Nagios configuration settings using this script:</p>
<pre>
define command {
command_name check_postgres_size
command_line $USER2$/check_postgres.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u pgsql -db postgres --action database_size -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
}</pre>
<pre>
define command {
command_name check_postgres_locks
command_line $USER2$/check_postgres.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u pgsql -db postgres --action locks -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
}</pre>
<pre>
define service {
use generic-other
host_name dbhost.gtld
service_description dbhost PostgreSQL Service Database Usage Size
check_command check_postgres_size!256000000!512000000
}</pre>
<pre>
define service {
use generic-other
host_name dbhost.gtld
service_description dbhost PostgreSQL Service Database Locks
check_command check_postgres_locks!2!3
}</pre>
<p>
</p>
<hr />
<h1><a name="license_and_copyright">LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT</a></h1>
<p>Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Greg Sabino Mullane <<a href="mailto:greg@endpoint.com">greg@endpoint.com</a>>.</p>
<p>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:</p>
<pre>
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
and/or other materials provided with the distribution.</pre>
<p>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO
EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT
OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING
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