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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2010-05-26 23:29:45 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2010-05-26 23:29:45 +0000
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Document pgFouine and check_postgres as log analysis options.
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-<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.103 2010/04/16 02:22:33 momjian Exp $ -->
+<!-- $PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/maintenance.sgml,v 1.104 2010/05/26 23:29:45 momjian Exp $ -->
<chapter id="maintenance">
<title>Routine Database Maintenance Tasks</title>
@@ -821,5 +821,14 @@ pg_ctl start | rotatelogs /var/log/pgsql_log 86400
is to configure the rotation program so that old log files are overwritten
cyclically.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://pgfouine.projects.postgresql.org/">pgFouine</ulink>
+ is an external project that does sophisticated log file analysis.
+ <ulink
+ href="http://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres">check_postgres</ulink>
+ provides Nagios alerts when important messages appear in the log
+ files, as well as detection of many other extraordinary conditions.
+ </para>
</sect1>
</chapter>