The document discusses the role of remote DBA services offered by EDB, highlighting key areas such as monitoring, backups, performance tuning, security audits, upgrades, and capacity planning. It emphasizes EDB's expertise in PostgreSQL and its approach to maintaining enterprise reliability through best practices and a comprehensive assessment of database health. EDB positions itself as a leader in the PostgreSQL community, providing tailored services to meet varying client needs.

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Tapping Into New Postgres
Resources with Remote DBAs
• David Thomas | 3.27.2014

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• EDB and Me
• Key Areas for Remote DBA
• Monitoring
• Backups
• Performance Tuning
• Security Audits
• Upgrades
• Capacity Planning
• EDB Resources
Agenda

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Introduction: EDB & Me (David)

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POSTGRES
innovation
ENTERPRISE
reliability
24/7
support
Services
& training
Enterprise-class
features & tools
Indemnification
Product
road-map
Control
Thousands
of developers
Fast
development
cycles
Low cost
No vendor
lock-in
Advanced
features
Enabling commercial
adoption of Postgres

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Best Practices

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• Monitoring
• Backups
• Performance Tuning
• Security
• Upgrades
• Capacity Planning
Key areas of a remote DBA service

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• Monitored 24x7
• How to monitor
− Realtime alerts
− Historical reports
• What to monitor
− Table and index bloat
reports
− Replication lag
− Idle connections
− Idle in transaction connections
Monitoring

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• How to backup
− Logical backups (pg_dump)
− Filesystem backup
− On-line backup
− Point in Time Recovery
(PITR)
• Data retention policy
• Testing restore procedure
Backups

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• Architecture Health Check (AHC)
• Optimizing memory usage
− Adjusting shared_buffers
− work_mem * max_connections
• vm.dirty_bytes and vm.dirty_background_bytes
• Understanding the storage
− effective_io_concurrency
• Identifying problem queries using pgbadger
Performance Tuning

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• Examine pg_hba.conf for proper
settings based on environment
• Ensure software is up to date
• Restrict access to configuration
files
• Disallow host system login by the database super user
• No sharing of credentials
• Only grant permissions that are needed, no more
Security Audit

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• Planning for system downtime
− Involving multiple teams
• Fail over to standby machines
− Test upgrade on replica server first
− How to fail back?
• Assisting in actual upgrade process
Upgrades

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• Quarterly planning meetings
− Planned features in PostgreSQL
• Advise on expanding system
− Hardware upgrades
− Software upgrades
− Clustering
Capacity Planning

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How EDB Can Help

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Why EDB for Remote DBA?
• EDB is the world wide leader on Postgres
− Database development expertise
− Deep technical knowledge of Postgres internals
− PostgreSQL experts on staff: community leaders,
committers and contributors
− Key member of the Postgres community
• EDB is the world wide leader for best practices
− Experience in large enterprises and mission critical systems
− Actively engaged in many Fortune 500 and
Global 1000 corporations
− Deployments across all industry types
− Worldwide leader in Postgres Training
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Architectural Health Check
• The Architectural Health Check (AHC) looks at:
− Operating system"
− Hardware configuration"
− Database settings"
− Backup strategies"
− General database practices"
− Upgrade requirements"
− High Availability options"
• The AHC identifies
− Short term opportunities"
− Strategic opportunities"
• In a collaborative session, the RDBA Team and the customer
review the AHC and develop the go-forward plan

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Customized to Meet Your Needs
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World-class service from the world’s best Postgres Company
Basic Service24/7 Monitoring Premium Service
PEACE OF MIND STAFF AUGMENTATION FULL-SERVICE EXPERTISE
• 24 x 7 real time monitoring
• Key parameters for database,
host and OS
• E-mail alerts
• Identify problems before they
impact operations
• Lowest cost option
• 24 x 7 monitoring, plus:
• 1-time remote AHC service
• Weekly status reports
• Monthly review meetings
• Monthly back-up verifications
• Patch & Maintenance
updates
• Emergency restoration
• Allows in-house DBA’s to
focus on mission-critical
tasks
• Basic service, plus:
• Annual remote AHC service
• Best-practice advice
• Architectural assistance
• Replication set-up & PITR set-up
• Dev/test system setup
• OS tuning & parameter advice
• Assigned technical lead
• Perfect for transitioning to Postgres,
knowledge transfer, or long-term
outsourcing

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David Thomas
david.thomas@enterprisedb.com
Let me know if I can help…
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