On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:12 AM, charles_xie <xqwyy163@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > i have 5 servers that have been installing postgresql .In order to > know the postgresql working status and monitor them ,moreover i don't want > to use the monitor tools .I want to use the SQL commands to monitoring > postgresql system . please suggest any SQL COMMANDS to work successfully.if > you have some good suggestion ,you can email to me > (charles.xie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) or sky :xqwbx163 Hello, You might want to try pgsql-general or the wiki. The right stuff also depends on what you are monitoring for. Basic uptime and information: "SELECT 1" ("can I log in?"), but also counting the number of connections (select count(*) from pg_stat_activity), the number of contending connections (select count(*) from pg_stat_activity where waiting = 't'), the number of tables (select count(*) from pg_tables), database size (select pg_database_size(<dbnamehere>)), and database version (select version()) we find useful. It's so useful we put it into a very condensed and cryptic status line (which can optionally have more information in more exceptional conditions) like: [100.5GB:140T:7C], (v9.0.6, --other statuses if they occur--) The space of queries used for tuning and capacity are much larger, but I find these basic chunks of information a useful fingerprint of most databases and activity levels in a relatively small amount of space. -- fdr -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance