Identify root-cause for intermittent spikes

From: Sengottaiyan T <techsenko(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Identify root-cause for intermittent spikes
Date: 2022-10-11 11:06:55
Message-ID: CADjQTvLARNBi0zSSAXFyQJdd8+o0tSX2mPfdAOA9rcNfhD5Axw@mail.gmail.com
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> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for suggestions:
>
> Environment: AWS PostgreSQL RDS instance - Version 14.3
> Operations support gets intermittent alerts from the monitoring tool
> through AWS cloud watch metrics on Disk Queue Depth, CPU burst-credit & CPU
> Utilization.
> I would like to understand what is causing the spike - is the number of
> logon's increased, (or) number of transactions per second increased, (or)
> SQL execution picked wrong plan and the long running (I/O, CPU or memory
> intensive) SQL is increasing load on server (cause and effect scenario)
> etc.,
>
> Due to the reactive nature of the issues, we rely on the metrics gathered
> in the AWS cloud watch monitoring (for the underlying OS stats),
> Performance Insights (for the DB performance) and correlate SQL queries
> with pg_Stat_Statements view. But the data in the view is an aggregated
> stats. And, I'm looking to see the deltas compared to normal runs.
> How should I approach and get to the root-cause?
>
> AppDynamics is already configured for the RDS instance. Are there any open
> source monitoring tools available which would help to capture and visualize
> the deltas?
>
> Thanks,
> Senko
>

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