How To Install Check_postgres On Centos(Monitoring Tool)

Check_postgres is a tool you can use to monitor PostgreSQL. You can download from the link below.

https://github.com/bucardo/check_postgres

If you downloaded it in zip format, we go to the relevant folder after extracting. We create a folder with the help of the command below while we are in the relevant downloaded directory.

Go to newly created directory

Using the command below, we create a symbolic link to the folder we created with the help of the command below. The following directory may vary depending on the version of check_postgres you have downloaded.

After running the command above, you should see that it is created in the folder specified as follows.

You need to run the following commands respectively.

After completing these operations we go the check_postgres directory and run the following command. You can set the Warning and Critical values yourself.

You can create a sh file and add it to crontab and send email it to yourself.

You can use below articles:

“How To Send Email From Linux“,

“How To Create Crontab Job On Linux“