What's New in PgCenter 0.2.0.
pgCenter is the top-like PostgreSQL statistics viewer. The pgCenter provides convenient interface for PostgreSQL statistics and allow viewing statistics changes in time interval, eg. per second. Also pgCenter provides fast access for database management tasks, such as editing configuration files, reloading services, viewing log files and canceling or terminating database backends.Today pgCenter 0.2.0 was released and new version have two major features.
iostat and nicstat
Now pgCenter can display input/output statistics for disk devices and partitions and network traffic statistics. Statistics interface is identical with iostat and nicstat utilities. Input/output statistics for disk devices includes information about IOPS, bandwidth, queue, lanency and utilization. Network traffic statistics displays information about bandwidth (bytes/packets), errors and interface utilization. By default these statistics not displayed and can be enabled (or disabled) with hostkeys. B for iostat, I for nicstat. Details and additional info about field descriptions can be obtained from man pgcenter.
pg_stat_statements improvements
The pg_stat_statements related statistics now have all information which available from pg_stat_statements view.
Now pgCenter can display input/output statistics for disk devices and partitions and network traffic statistics. Statistics interface is identical with iostat and nicstat utilities. Input/output statistics for disk devices includes information about IOPS, bandwidth, queue, lanency and utilization. Network traffic statistics displays information about bandwidth (bytes/packets), errors and interface utilization. By default these statistics not displayed and can be enabled (or disabled) with hostkeys. B for iostat, I for nicstat. Details and additional info about field descriptions can be obtained from man pgcenter.
pg_stat_statements improvements
The pg_stat_statements related statistics now have all information which available from pg_stat_statements view.
- Resource utilization - now we can determine how cpu or input/output resources was consumed by particular type of queries.
- Buffers input/output - allow determine how pages read, written or dirtied in shared buffers per query (values shown in kylobytes, not in pages).
- Temporary input/output - now all queries which uses temp files can be found and optimized (values shown in kylobytes, not in pages).
- General query info - for all types of queries we can see number of calls and returned rows.
Other fixes and improvements
New release also have many small improvements. All known errors and segfaults was fixed. Thereby, with this new release, pgCenter becoming more stable and mature.
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