# PostgreSQL plugin This postgresql plugin provides metrics for your postgres database. It has been designed to parse ithe sql queries in the plugin section of your telegraf.conf. For now only two queries are specified and it's up to you to add more; some per query parameters have been added : * The SQl query itself * The minimum version supported (here in numeric display visible in pg_settings) * A boolean to define if the query have to be run against some specific * variables (defined in the databaes variable of the plugin section) * The list of the column that have to be defined has tags ``` [[inputs.postgresql_extensible]] # specify address via a url matching: # postgres://[pqgotest[:password]]@localhost[/dbname]?sslmode=... # or a simple string: # host=localhost user=pqotest password=... sslmode=... dbname=app_production # # All connection parameters are optional. # # Without the dbname parameter, the driver will default to a database # with the same name as the user. This dbname is just for instantiating a # connection with the server and doesn't restrict the databases we are trying # to grab metrics for. # address = "host=localhost user=postgres sslmode=disable" # A list of databases to pull metrics about. If not specified, metrics for all # databases are gathered. # databases = ["app_production", "testing"] # # Define the toml config where the sql queries are stored # New queries can be added, if the withdbname is set to true and there is no # databases defined in the 'databases field', the sql query is ended by a 'is # not null' in order to make the query succeed. # Be careful that the sqlquery must contain the where clause with a part of # the filtering, the plugin will add a 'IN (dbname list)' clause if the # withdbname is set to true # Example : # The sqlquery : "SELECT * FROM pg_stat_database where datname" become # "SELECT * FROM pg_stat_database where datname IN ('postgres', 'pgbench')" # because the databases variable was set to ['postgres', 'pgbench' ] and the # withdbname was true. # Be careful that if the withdbname is set to false you d'ont have to define # the where clause (aka with the dbname) # the tagvalue field is used to define custom tags (separated by comas) # # Structure : # [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] # sqlquery string # version string # withdbname boolean # tagvalue string (coma separated) [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="SELECT * FROM pg_stat_database where datname" version=901 withdbname=false tagvalue="" [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="SELECT * FROM pg_stat_bgwriter" version=901 withdbname=false tagvalue="" ``` The system can be easily extended using homemade metrics collection tools or using postgreql extensions ( [pg_stat_statements](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/pgstatstatements.html), [pg_proctab](https://github.com/markwkm/pg_proctab), [powa](http://dalibo.github.io/powa/)...) # Sample Queries : - telegraf.conf postgresql_extensible queries (assuming that you have configured correctly your connection) ``` [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="SELECT * FROM pg_stat_database" version=901 withdbname=false tagvalue="" [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="SELECT * FROM pg_stat_bgwriter" version=901 withdbname=false tagvalue="" [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="select * from sessions" version=901 withdbname=false tagvalue="db,username,state" [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="select setting as max_connections from pg_settings where \ name='max_connections'" version=801 withdbname=false tagvalue="" [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="select * from pg_stat_kcache" version=901 withdbname=false tagvalue="" [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="select setting as shared_buffers from pg_settings where \ name='shared_buffers'" version=801 withdbname=false tagvalue="" [[inputs.postgresql_extensible.query]] sqlquery="SELECT db, count( distinct blocking_pid ) AS num_blocking_sessions,\ count( distinct blocked_pid) AS num_blocked_sessions FROM \ public.blocking_procs group by db" version=901 withdbname=false tagvalue="db" ``` - And on the posgtgres side : * postgresql.conf ```` shared_preload_libraries = 'pg_stat_statements,pg_stat_kcache' ``` * In the database (can be a specific monitoring db) ``` create extension pg_stat_statements; create extension pg_stat_kcache; create extension pg_proctab; ``` (assuming that the extension is installed on the OS Layer) * pg_stat_kcache is available on the postgresql.org yum repo * pg_proctab is available at : https://github.com/markwkm/pg_proctab * Views ** Blocking sessions ``` CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW public.blocking_procs AS SELECT a.datname AS db, kl.pid AS blocking_pid, ka.usename AS blocking_user, ka.query AS blocking_query, bl.pid AS blocked_pid, a.usename AS blocked_user, a.query AS blocked_query, to_char(age(now(), a.query_start), 'HH24h:MIm:SSs'::text) AS age FROM pg_locks bl JOIN pg_stat_activity a ON bl.pid = a.pid JOIN pg_locks kl ON bl.locktype = kl.locktype AND NOT bl.database IS DISTINCT FROM kl.database AND NOT bl.relation IS DISTINCT FROM kl.relation AND NOT bl.page IS DISTINCT FROM kl.page AND NOT bl.tuple IS DISTINCT FROM kl.tuple AND NOT bl.virtualxid IS DISTINCT FROM kl.virtualxid AND NOT bl.transactionid IS DISTINCT FROM kl.transactionid AND NOT bl.classid IS DISTINCT FROM kl.classid AND NOT bl.objid IS DISTINCT FROM kl.objid AND NOT bl.objsubid IS DISTINCT FROM kl.objsubid AND bl.pid <> kl.pid JOIN pg_stat_activity ka ON kl.pid = ka.pid WHERE kl.granted AND NOT bl.granted ORDER BY a.query_start; ``` ** Sessions Statistics ``` CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW public.sessions AS WITH proctab AS ( SELECT pg_proctab.pid, CASE WHEN pg_proctab.state::text = 'R'::bpchar::text THEN 'running'::text WHEN pg_proctab.state::text = 'D'::bpchar::text THEN 'sleep-io'::text WHEN pg_proctab.state::text = 'S'::bpchar::text THEN 'sleep-waiting'::text WHEN pg_proctab.state::text = 'Z'::bpchar::text THEN 'zombie'::text WHEN pg_proctab.state::text = 'T'::bpchar::text THEN 'stopped'::text ELSE NULL::text END AS proc_state, pg_proctab.ppid, pg_proctab.utime, pg_proctab.stime, pg_proctab.vsize, pg_proctab.rss, pg_proctab.processor, pg_proctab.rchar, pg_proctab.wchar, pg_proctab.syscr, pg_proctab.syscw, pg_proctab.reads, pg_proctab.writes, pg_proctab.cwrites FROM pg_proctab() pg_proctab(pid, comm, fullcomm, state, ppid, pgrp, session, tty_nr, tpgid, flags, minflt, cminflt, majflt, cmajflt, utime, stime, cutime, cstime, priority, nice, num_threads, itrealvalue, starttime, vsize, rss, exit_signal, processor, rt_priority, policy, delayacct_blkio_ticks, uid, username, rchar, wchar, syscr, syscw, reads, writes, cwrites) ), stat_activity AS ( SELECT pg_stat_activity.datname, pg_stat_activity.pid, pg_stat_activity.usename, CASE WHEN pg_stat_activity.query IS NULL THEN 'no query'::text WHEN pg_stat_activity.query IS NOT NULL AND pg_stat_activity.state = 'idle'::text THEN 'no query'::text ELSE regexp_replace(pg_stat_activity.query, '[\n\r]+'::text, ' '::text, 'g'::text) END AS query FROM pg_stat_activity ) SELECT stat.datname::name AS db, stat.usename::name AS username, stat.pid, proc.proc_state::text AS state, ('"'::text || stat.query) || '"'::text AS query, (proc.utime/1000)::bigint AS session_usertime, (proc.stime/1000)::bigint AS session_systemtime, proc.vsize AS session_virtual_memory_size, proc.rss AS session_resident_memory_size, proc.processor AS session_processor_number, proc.rchar AS session_bytes_read, proc.rchar-proc.reads AS session_logical_bytes_read, proc.wchar AS session_bytes_written, proc.wchar-proc.writes AS session_logical_bytes_writes, proc.syscr AS session_read_io, proc.syscw AS session_write_io, proc.reads AS session_physical_reads, proc.writes AS session_physical_writes, proc.cwrites AS session_cancel_writes FROM proctab proc, stat_activity stat WHERE proc.pid = stat.pid; 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