Postgres FM

Monitoring from Postgres AI

Postgres FM

Show Notes

Nikolay talks to Michael about Postgres AI's new monitoring tool — what it is, how its different to other tools, and some of the thinking behind it.

Here are some links to things they mentioned: postgres_ai monitoring https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgres_ai DB Lab 4.0 announcement https://github.com/postgres-ai/database-lab-engine/releases/tag/v4.0.0 pganalyze https://pganalyze.com postgres-checkup https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/postgres-checkup Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) https://github.com/percona/pmm pgwatch https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pgwatch pgwatch Postgres AI Edition https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/pgwatch2 libpg_query https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query The Four Golden Signals https://sre.google/sre-book/monitoring-distributed-systems/#xref_monitoring_golden-signals logerrors https://github.com/munakoiso/logerrors

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~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai

With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork

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