16, Jun 2023

MONITOR POSTGRES DOWNTIME WITH GO LANGUAGE

Palzin Track Go Use Cases

Monitor your Postgres downtime in your Go application

Postgres, a reliable relational database frequently utilized in Go 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 Go application operation. Connect Palzin Track to Go


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.

Go 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 Go with Native


package main  


import (  


 "fmt"  


 "strings"  


 "net/http"  


 "io/ioutil"  


)  


func main() {  


 url := "https://api.palzin.live/v1/log"  


 method := "POST"  


 payload := strings.NewReader(`{"project":"my-project","channel":"status","event":"Postgres is down","description":"Postgres has been down for the last 5 minutes","icon":"🚨","notify":true}`)  


 client := &http.Client {  


 }  


 req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)  


 if err != nil {  


 fmt.Println(err)  


 return  


 }  


 req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")  


 req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN")  


 res, err := client.Do(req)  


 if err != nil {  


 fmt.Println(err)  


 return  


 }  


 defer res.Body.Close()  


 body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)  


 if err != nil {  


 fmt.Println(err)  


 return  


 }  


 fmt.Println(string(body))  


}

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

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