On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 01:20:59PM +0000, Zwettler Markus (OIZ) wrote:
> I came up with the following query which should return any apply lag in seconds.
>
> select coalesce(replay_delay, 0) replication_delay_in_sec
> from (
> select datname,
> (
> select case
> when received_lsn = latest_end_lsn then 0
> else extract(epoch
> from now() - latest_end_time)
> end
> from pg_stat_wal_receiver
> ) replay_delay
> from pg_database
> where datname = current_database()
> ) xview;
>
>
> I would expect delays >0 in case SYNC or ASYNC replication is
> somehow behind. We will do a warning at 120 secs and critical at 300
> secs.
pg_stat_wal_receiver is available only on the receiver, aka the
standby so it would not really be helpful on a primary. On top of
that streaming replication is system-wide, so there is no actual point
to look at databases either.
> Would this do the job or am I missing something here?
Here is a suggestion for Nagios: hot_standby_delay, as told in
https://github.com/bucardo/check_postgres/blob/master/check_postgres.pl
--
Michael
