PgBouncer monitoring with Netdata
PgBouncer is an open-source connection pooler
for PostgreSQL.
This module monitors one or more PgBouncer servers, depending on your configuration.
Executed queries:
SHOW VERSION;
SHOW CONFIG;
SHOW DATABASES;
SHOW STATS;
SHOW POOLS;
Information about the queries can be found in the PgBouncer Documentation.
Requirements
- PgBouncer v1.8.0+.
- A user with
stats_users
permissions to query your PgBouncer instance.
To create the netdata
user:
-
Add netdata
user to the pgbouncer.ini
file:
stats_users = netdata
-
Add a password for the netdata
user to the userlist.txt
file:
"netdata" "<PASSWORD>"
-
To verify the credentials, run the following command
psql -h localhost -U netdata -p 6432 pgbouncer -c "SHOW VERSION;" >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo OK || echo FAIL
When it prompts for a password, enter the password you added to userlist.txt
.
Metrics
All metrics have "pgbouncer." prefix.
Labels per scope:
- global: no labels.
- database: database, postgres_database.
Metric |
Scope |
Dimensions |
Units |
client_connections_utilization |
global |
used |
percentage |
db_client_connections |
database |
active, waiting, cancel_req |
connections |
db_server_connections |
database |
active, idle, used, tested, login |
connections |
db_server_connections_utilization |
database |
used |
percentage |
db_clients_wait_time |
database |
time |
seconds |
db_client_max_wait_time |
database |
time |
seconds |
db_transactions |
database |
transactions |
transactions/s |
db_transactions_time |
database |
time |
seconds |
db_transaction_avg_time |
database |
time |
seconds |
db_queries |
database |
queries |
queries/s |
db_queries_time |
database |
time |
seconds |
db_query_avg_time |
database |
time |
seconds |
db_network_io |
database |
received, sent |
B/s |
Configuration
Edit the go.d/pgbouncer.conf
configuration file using edit-config
from the
Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata
.
cd /etc/netdata # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory
sudo ./edit-config go.d/pgbouncer.conf
DSN (Data Source Name) may either be in URL format or key=word format.
See Connection Strings for details.
jobs:
- name: local
dsn: 'postgres://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:6432/pgbouncer'
- name: local
dsn: 'host=/tmp dbname=pgbouncer user=postgres port=6432'
- name: remote
dsn: 'postgres://postgres:postgres@203.0.113.10:6432/pgbouncer'
For all available options see
module configuration file.
Troubleshooting
To troubleshoot issues with the pgbouncer
collector, run the go.d.plugin
with the debug option enabled. The output
should give you clues as to why the collector isn't working.
-
Navigate to the plugins.d
directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
. If that's not the case on
your system, open netdata.conf
and look for the plugins
setting under [directories]
.
cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
-
Switch to the netdata
user.
sudo -u netdata -s
-
Run the go.d.plugin
to debug the collector:
./go.d.plugin -d -m pgbouncer