Try http://brendangregg.com/
Lots of great tidbits there from a guy who really knows his performance stuff (ex-Sun, now Netflix) On Sunday, 14 December 2014, Vick Khera <vi...@khera.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Edson Carlos Ericksson Richter < > edsonrich...@hotmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','edsonrich...@hotmail.com');>> wrote: >> >> I've been searching in web for guidelines on OS (Linux) and PostgreSQL >> (9.3.5) active monitoring best practices. >> > > Recent trends are more toward monitoring response latency by first > establishing a baseline level of activity and latency, then alerting when > those numbers get out of acceptable range. > > There are some open source tools to collect and sort and report this way > (see Kibana and Grafana and their underlying data stores). I've not seen > alerting tools based on this that are non-commercial, though. Two services > I know of are Ruxit and Circonus. > > Personally I still use Nagios to tell my staff when things are down or not > responding, but often that is too late to proactively fix things. > > One thing that'd be really cool is to use the new binary JSON storage in > the upcoming Pg release to store the time series data for use with > Grafana... but then you'd have a chicken/egg problem with monitoring > itself. :) >
