20, Jul 2023

MONITOR POSTGRES DOWNTIME WITH OCAML LANGUAGE

Palzin Track Ocaml Use Cases

Monitor your Postgres downtime in your OCaml application

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


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.

OCaml 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 OCaml with Cohttp


open Lwt  


open Cohttp  


open Cohttp_lwt_unix  


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


let reqBody =   


 let uri = Uri.of_string "https://api.palzin.live/v1/log" in  


 let headers = Header.init ()  


 |> fun h -> Header.add h "Content-Type" "application/json"  


 |> fun h -> Header.add h "Authorization" "Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN"  


 in  


 let body = Cohttp_lwt.Body.of_string !postData in  


 Client.call ~headers ~body `POST uri >>= fun (_resp, body) ->  


 body |> Cohttp_lwt.Body.to_string >|= fun body -> body  


let () =  


 let respBody = Lwt_main.run reqBody in  


 print_endline (respBody)

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

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