New Integration Options with Postgres Enterprise Manager 8.0

New Integration Options
with Postgres Enterprise
Manager 8.0
Anthony Waite, Scott Grant
Hosted by: Molly Halsey

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Welcome – Housekeeping Items

Are you currently using Postgres Enterprise Manager (PEM)?
1.Yes
2.No
3.Not yet, planning to use
Poll #1

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Agenda
• Why Postgres Enterprise Manager?
• What’s new?
• Expanded REST API
• Webhooks
• Other notable new features
• Webhooks demo

Three takeaways
#1
New webhooks automatically push
notifications to incident-management
or team-collaboration systems
#2 #3
Expanded REST API provides
fuller context for third-party
integrations
Additional support for open
source PostgreSQL with
performance diagnostics

Why Postgres
Enterprise
Manager?

What is Postgres Enterprise Manager (PEM)?
An interface to control
and optimize PostgreSQL

Quick Deploy
Solution Design
Migration Assessment
Migration Assistance
PostgreSQL Strategy
Security Assessment
Enterprise Architecture
EDB Postgres Advanced ServerPostgreSQL
EDB Postgres Tools
PostgreSQL Optimization Enterprise Strategy Custom ServicesGetting Started
Cloud
DBA Service
Remote
DBA Service
Technical
Account Manager
PostgreSQL
Technical Support
Softwar
e
Support
Design
and Build
Services
Overview: EDB Product Suite
Performance Tuning
Automation Services
Monitoring Best Practices
Backup Best Practices
Implementation
Embedded Expert
Training
PEM

Why not use my other DBMS tools?
PostgreSQL is complex
Extensibility, scalability, and interoperability
are strong points, but this can be challenging
and intimidating for new users
Specialized tooling is essential for successful
tuning and optimization of PostgreSQL

What tools are you using for monitoring PostgreSQL?
1.Nagios
2.Datadog
3.Prometheus/Grafana
4.SolarWinds
5.Zabbix
6.Other
Poll #2

Manage from one
interface
Optimize database
performance
Monitor system
health
Integrate with other
tools
Why Postgres Enterprise Manager?
One place to visualize
and manage everything
PostgreSQL
In-depth diagnostics for
database reports and
tuning
Built-in dashboards and
customizable alert
thresholds
APIs and webhooks to
fetch data, send alerts,
and manage servers
Manage, monitor, and tune PostgreSQL at scale

Market overview
PEM
Monitoring
and
Alerting
Management
and
Administration
AWS
Cloudwatch
Nagios
Splunk
Datadog
SolarWinds
Sysdig
Elastic.co APM
Prometheus
and
Grafana
pgAdmin
Toad Edge
DataGrip
RazorSQL
Elephant
Shed

PEM architecture
• PEM Server
• PEM Web Client
• PEM Agent
• SQL Profiler

PEM functionality
Management Monitoring/alerting Tuning/diagnostics
Deep insights into your PostgreSQL deployment
Built-in query debugger
User/group access management
Query tool and analysis
Job scheduling
Backup and failover
management
Customizable charts and
dashboards
Predefined and custom alerts via
email or SNMP
Audit log manager
Database and OS level
monitoring
Detailed performance
diagnostics
SQL profiler
Capacity management
User-defined metrics log
analysis
Expert wizards for configuration
setup

What’s new: summary
Accessibility, security, and integration
• Certified for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA
• Updated Security Guide
• More support for open source PostgreSQL
• Additional API endpoints
• Webhooks

PEM web client
• Inaccessibility create barriers, not just
those with disabilities
• Meets requirements for federal
contracting, government buyers, and
regulated industries
• Self-certification published online
• enterprisedb.com/accessibility
Certified for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA

Security Guide
• New Security Guide for 8.0
• Best practices to consider when
configuring both PEM and Apache
• Available in EDB documentation
Identify, analyze and verify security vulnerabilities

Performance Diagnostics
• Analyze performance during query
execution by monitoring the wait events
• New edb_wait_states plugin for
PostgreSQL is required
• EDB further embraces the open-source
community by extending PostgreSQL
Now certified for PostgreSQL 10 or above

● Third-party clients have more control as they place calls
● Know whether if PEM is online
● Suitable for manipulating data in third-party systems
● Offers Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) capabilities
● Ideal for monitoring
REST API in PEM
Great fit for application and service integrations with constant data changes
PEM
Is my data ready?
No
Yes, here you go!
Is my data ready?
No
Is my data ready?

● Retrieval of the objects from monitored server and agents
● Retrieval of the statistics collected by probes
● CRUD operations for probes, alerts, email groups, and
templates
● Retrieval and update of PEM server and probe configurations
● Copy the agents/servers/database/schema level probe
configurations to other same- or lower-level objects
● Copy the alert configuration of one object to other objects
REST API in PEM
Exposed endpoints for the following operations

● Extended REST API for alert states in PEM 7.16
(October 2020)
○ Current threshold violations
○ Change state history for agents, servers & databases
○ Current state of all agents
○ Current state of all monitored servers
Expanded REST API
Allows integration with other apps and services

REST API Webhooks
PEM
Is my data ready?
No
Yes, here you go!
PEMIs my data ready?
No
Is my data ready?
Here’s your data!
Tell me when my
data’s ready

REST APIs are one-way traffic and require polling the PEM server:
• Webhooks are automated, event-based alerts with a payload sent
from PEM to keep other systems in sync
• Changes are automatically triggered if current values deviate
from threshold values
• When an event triggers a webhook, PEM will send this notification
to the specified endpoint(s)
Webhooks in Postgres Enterprise Manager 8.0
Ideal for alerting scenarios for incident-management systems and team-collaboration channels

• URL that may include variables
• Request method
• Payload template
• Key/value pairs
• Authentication details
• Additional HTTP headers
Webhooks in PEM comprise of endpoint(s)

• Each alert sent to an endpoint based on a level, similar to email groups
• Select multiple endpoints for each alert level
• Set default endpoints for each alert level; users can override settings and
disable at individual alert level
Alerts based on Webhooks in PEM
POST https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Content-type: application/json
{
"text": "An alert state was detected on svr01.enterprisedb.com: Disk space usage on /var is at
95%."
}

A PEM request might include fields other than "text":
POST https://moogsoft.lseg.com/hooks/alerts
Content-type: application/json
X-Auth-Token: fdsjkfsjflkewrrtdfsdrioume45dfsmasd
{
"text": "An alert state was detected on svr01.enterprisedb.com: Disk space usage on /dev/sdb3 is
at 95%."
"host": "svr01.enterprisedb.com",
"server": "Finance QA 003",
"alert": "Disk Usage",
"level": "High",
"device": "/dev/sdb3",
"value": "95%"
}
Payload, headers & URL can be user defined and templatized to enable integration with most systems that support
webhooks.
Additional webhook data:

Demo: Sending a
webhook to Slack

Webhooks in PEM (1 of 6)
Use the Webhooks tab to configure the PEM Server to receive notification of alert events on threshold
value violations in your configured applications

Create Webhook (2 of 6)
Define a new webhook by clicking the + icon in the upper-right corner of the table
Note: By default, the
enable_webhook parameter
is set to true only for the
agent on PEM Server. For all
other agents on other hosts,
it needs to be set manually
via the command line utility
during registration with
PEM Server.

Configure SSL (3 of 6)
Define the webhook SSL parameters in the respective agent configuration file or registry in Windows
Note: If you add or remove any
of the agent configuration
parameters, you must restart
the agent to apply them.

Set up HTTP Headers (4 of 6)
Use the HTTP Headers tab to define the header parameters to pass while calling the webhook endpoints
• All the values will be specified as a key and value pair
• Specify a key parameter in the Key field and a value in the Value field

Define Payloads (5 of 6)
Use the Payload tab to define the JSON data to be sent to the endpoint when an alert is triggered;
configure the template placeholders
• %AlertID%
• %AlertName%
• %ObjectName%
• %ObjectType%
%ThresholdValue%
• %CurrentValue%
• %CurrentState%
• %OldState%
• %AlertRaisedTime%
• %AgentID%
• %AgentName%
• %ServerID%
• %ServerName%
• %ServerIP%
• %ServerPort%
• %DatabaseName%
• %SchemaName%
• %PackageName%
• %DatabaseObjectName%
• %Parameters%.
• %AlertInfo%

Override an alert (6 of 6)
Use the Webhook tab under Manager Alerts to override any endpoint configurations per alert level:
Low, Medium, High, and Cleared

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• New webhooks automatically push notifications to incident-management or
team-collaboration systems
• Expanded REST API provides fuller context for third-party integrations
• Additional support for open source PostgreSQL with performance
diagnostics
Summary

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