postgres_bgwriter

#!/usr/bin/perl
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# Copyright (C) 2009 Magnus Hagander, Redpill Linpro AB
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=head1 NAME

postgres_bgwriter_ - Plugin to monitor the PostgreSQL Background Writer.

=head1 CONFIGURATION

Configuration is done through libpq environment variables, for example
PGUSER, PGDATABASE, etc. For more information, see L<Munin::Plugin::Pgsql>.

To monitor several instances, link to postgres_<tag>_bgwriter
The <tag> can be what you want but without "_". It allows you to define several
database configuration.

Example :
  [postgres_pg91_*]
  env.PGPORT 5432
  [postgres_pg92_*]
  env.PGPORT 5432

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<Munin::Plugin::Pgsql>

=head1 MAGIC MARKERS

 #%# family=auto
 #%# capabilities=autoconf

=head1 AUTHOR

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Redpill Linpro AB

=head1 COPYRIGHT/License.

Copyright (c) 2009 Magnus Hagander, Redpill Linpro AB

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2
dated June, 1991.

=cut

use strict;
use warnings;

use Munin::Plugin::Pgsql;

my $pg = Munin::Plugin::Pgsql->new(
    minversion => 8.3,
    title      => 'PostgreSQL bgwriter',
    info       => 'bgwriter buffer statistics',
    vlabel     => 'buffers / second',
    basequery =>
        "SELECT buffers_checkpoint,buffers_clean,buffers_backend,buffers_alloc FROM pg_stat_bgwriter",
    pivotquery  => 1,
    configquery => "VALUES
           ('buffers_checkpoint','Buffers at checkpoint', 'Buffers written when performing a checkpoint'),
           ('buffers_clean','Buffers cleaned', 'Buffers cleaned by background bgwriter runs'),
           ('buffers_backend', 'Buffers by backend', 'Buffers written by backends and not the bgwriter'),
           ('buffers_alloc', 'Buffers allocated', 'Buffers allocated globally')",
    graphtype => 'DERIVE'
);

$pg->Process();