MONITOR POSTGRES DOWNTIME WITH C LANGUAGE

Monitor your Postgres downtime in your C application

Postgres, a reliable relational database frequently utilized in C applications for data persistence and retrieval, offers a wide array of features, rendering it a suitable choice for both small and large-scale applications.

Nonetheless, like any other database system, Postgres is vulnerable to downtime triggered by various factors. Possible causes include hardware failures, network issues, misconfigurations, and more. When such incidents occur, it can disrupt the expected functionality of your application, leading to issues like failed requests and sluggish performance, and in severe cases, data loss.

Hence, it is imperative to maintain vigilant monitoring of your database's status and swiftly address any irregularities. Thankfully, Palzin Track simplifies the process of tracking critical events like database downtime and failures. Palzin Track serves as a user-friendly yet potent event tracking tool, designed to log unexpected application behaviors.

For instance, in the context of Postgres, it's common practice to establish periodic checks to ensure the database's operational status, monitoring its performance, disk usage, and memory utilization. Whenever anomalies surface, such as elevated disk usage, performance degradation, or downtime, Palzin Track records these events, immediately notifying your team for prompt action.

Moreover, Palzin Track offers a robust insights dashboard, enabling you to monitor various aspects of your database, including its status, performance, uptime, memory usage, and other customizable metrics. This feature simplifies the task of maintaining your database's overall health and ensures seamless C application operation. Connect Palzin Track to C

Setting up Palzin Track

1. Sign up for a free Palzin Track account.
2. Create your first project from the dashboard.
3. Head to settings and copy your API token.

C code snippets

To track your Postgres downtime, you can use the following code snippet Please don't forget to replace the YOUR_API_TOKEN with your API token and update the project and channel names.

Using C with libcurl

CURL \*curl;  


CURLcode res;  


curl = curl_easy_init();  


if(curl) {  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.palzin.live/v1/log");  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_DEFAULT_PROTOCOL, "https");  


 struct curl_slist \*headers = NULL;  


 headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Content-Type: application/json");  


 headers = curl_slist_append(headers, "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN");  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, headers);  


 const char \*data = "{\"project\":\"my-project\",\"channel\":\"status\",\"event\":\"Postgres is down\",\"description\":\"Postgres has been down for the last 5 minutes\",\"icon\":\"🚨\",\"notify\":true}";  


 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, data);  


 res = curl_easy_perform(curl);  


}  


curl_easy_cleanup(curl);

C integration details

In addition, Palzin Track provides several powerful features, such as real-time event tracking, push notifications, charts, funnels, and user journey tracking. Furthermore, it works seamlessly with C and is an excellent tool for monitoring each application part.

Palzin Track provides a generous free plan to get you started with event tracking. You can also check out our pricing page to see our paid plans. So please give us a try and let us know what you think!

Other use-cases for Palzin Track

1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your C application
2. Monitor your CPU usage in your C application
3. Monitor when database goes down in your C application
4. Monitor high disk usage in your C application
5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your C application
6. Monitor failed logins in your C application
7. Monitor failed payments for your C application
8. Monitor memory usage in your C application
9. Monitor MySQL downtime in your C application
10. Monitor when a new feature is used in your C application
11. Monitor Redis downtime in your C application
12. Monitor suspicious activity in your C application
13. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your C service
14. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your C application
15. Get a notification when your C code is done executing
16. Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using C
17. Track canceled subscriptions in your C application
18. Track your C cron jobs
19. Track when a file is uploaded to your C application
20. Track when a form is submitted to your C application
21. Track payment events via C
22. Track user sign in events in C
23. Monitor user signup events via C
24. Track waitlist signup events via C