Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with database operations.
For system admins, troubleshooting large databases can seem never-ending. On Linux and macOS systems, database management is often synonymous with PostgreSQL database systems. These preconfigured systems often fail to meet the specific requirements of an organization’s IT infrastructure. This is where Paessler PRTG PostgreSQL performance monitoring shines.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability, health, and performance of your PostgreSQL database systems. Show latency, workloads, the number of running queries and affected rows, and other performance metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot slow queries and other PostgreSQL database errors.
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PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
The PostgreSQL sensor monitors a database on a PostgreSQL server and executes a query. It can show the following:
The ADO SQL v2 sensor monitors a database via an ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) connection and it executes an SQL query. It can show the following:
The WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2019 sensor monitors the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server. It can show the following and more:
See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with database operations.
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PostgreSQL is an open-source, powerful, and feature-rich relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports both SQL (relational) and JSON (non-relational) querying. It is widely known for its robustness, extensibility, and compliance with the ACID properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability), ensuring transactional integrity.
Monitoring your PostgreSQL databases is a crucial part of systems administration. Monitoring provides the data you need to identify performance issues, ensure high availability, reduce downtimes to a minimum, and optimize resource usage.
When properly configured, monitoring has a low impact on performance. For ease of management, PRTG provides the performance impact of each sensor, so you can make more informed decisions.
Yes. To install and use the PostgreSQL sensor, you’ll need to meet the following requirements:
PRTG does PostgreSQL monitoring really well, but it does all-in-one monitoring even better. PRTG is an all-in-one monitoring solution with customizable dashboards, alerts, and extensive sensor support.
No. In addition to PostgreSQL, PRTG comes with various sensors that are useful for detecting database problems. You can use our software to monitor all the most popular SQL databases, including:
If you need extended database monitoring for databases such as IBM DB2, SAP HANA, SAP MaxDB, and others, check out our brand-new product extension PRTG Database Observer.
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive. On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
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