Topic

Monitoring

A collection of 7 issues

The Ten Commandments for DBAs

I recently read a great blog entry from Fritz Lechnitz, who wrote about the Ten Commandments for a SQL Server DBA. As I am - and mostly was over many years - an Oracle DBA, who had some excursions to other RDBMS (SQL Server, DB/2, Informix, MySQL, PostgreSQL ), I&

Oracle: Use CheckMk for Oracle Database monitoring

This is how to easily use CheckMk for Oracle monitoring

Grafana: Using Telegraf and Grafana for Linux monitoring

If you use Telegraf to extract metrics from your systems, and you write them to InfluxDB, you can use Grafana to visualize the data we collected before. Configure InfluxDB as data source To use the data from within Grafana, we have to create a data source. Go to Connections and

PostgreSQL: Use CheckMk to monitor PostgreSQL

CheckMk is a great tool for monitoring. But it does not only do that for operation systems, you will also be able to monitor your PostgreSQL databases. To do that, you'll need two things: * The PostgreSQL plugin * A configuration file To get the PostgreSQL plugin, you can download

Docker: Monitor Docker using CheckMk

CheckMk is also a great tool, not just for normal systems, but also for Docker installations. Especially when running Docker in a production environment, it's highly recommended to monitor all the services. Fortunately, there's a Docker plugin for CheckMk. Prerequisites CheckMk Plugin for Docker First, you&

MySQL: Use CheckMk to monitor MySQL

CheckMk is a great tool for monitoring. Especially when it comes to standard functions for operating systems. But CheckMk is also great for the monitoring of MySQL databases. If you want to use it, just install the CheckMk agent on the MySQL server. Additionally, you'll need the MySQL