MONITOR POSTGRES DOWNTIME WITH SHELL LANGUAGE

Monitor your Postgres downtime in your Shell application

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

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.

Shell 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 Shell with Httpie

printf '{"project":"my-project","channel":"status","event":"Postgres is down","description":"Postgres has been down for the last 5 minutes","icon":"🚨","notify":true}'| http --follow --timeout 3600 POST 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log' \  


 Content-Type:'application/json' \  


 Authorization:'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'

Using Shell with wget

wget --no-check-certificate --quiet \  


 --method POST \  


 --timeout=0 \  


 --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \  


 --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \  


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


 'https://api.palzin.live/v1/log'

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