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PostgreSQL log analyzer with fully detailed reports and graphs.
Arguments:
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logfile can be a single log file, a list of files, or a shell command
returning a list of files. If you want to pass log content from stdin
use - as filename. Note that input from stdin will not work with csvlog.
Options:
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-a | --average minutes : number of minutes to build the average graphs of
queries and connections. Default 5 minutes.
-A | --histo-average min: number of minutes to build the histogram graphs
of queries. Default 60 minutes.
-b | --begin datetime : start date/time for the data to be parsed in log
(either a timestamp or a time)
-c | --dbclient host : only report on entries for the given client host.
-C | --nocomment : remove comments like /* ... */ from queries.
-d | --dbname database : only report on entries for the given database.
-D | --dns-resolv : client ip addresses are replaced by their DNS name.
Be warned that this can really slow down pgBadger.
-e | --end datetime : end date/time for the data to be parsed in log
(either a timestamp or a time)
-E | --explode : explode the main report by generating one report
per database. Global information not related to a
database is added to the postgres database report.
-f | --format logtype : possible values: syslog, syslog2, stderr, jsonlog,
csv, pgbouncer, logplex, rds and redshift. Use this
option when pgBadger is not able to detect the log
format.
-G | --nograph : disable graphs on HTML output. Enabled by default.
-h | --help : show this message and exit.
-H | --html-outdir path: path to directory where HTML report must be written
in incremental mode, binary files stay on directory
defined with -O, --outdir option.
-i | --ident name : programname used as syslog ident. Default: postgres
-I | --incremental : use incremental mode, reports will be generated by
days in a separate directory, --outdir must be set.
-j | --jobs number : number of jobs to run at same time for a single log
file. Run as single by default or when working with
csvlog format.
-J | --Jobs number : number of log files to parse in parallel. Process
one file at a time by default.
-l | --last-parsed file: allow incremental log parsing by registering the
last datetime and line parsed. Useful if you want
to watch errors since last run or if you want one
report per day with a log rotated each week.
-L | --logfile-list file:file containing a list of log files to parse.
-m | --maxlength size : maximum length of a query, it will be restricted to
the given size. Default truncate size is 100000.
-M | --no-multiline : do not collect multiline statements to avoid garbage
especially on errors that generate a huge report.
-N | --appname name : only report on entries for given application name
-o | --outfile filename: define the filename for the output. Default depends
on the output format: out.html, out.txt, out.bin,
or out.json. This option can be used multiple times
to output several formats. To use json output, the
Perl module JSON::XS must be installed, to dump
output to stdout, use - as filename.
-O | --outdir path : directory where out files must be saved.
-p | --prefix string : the value of your custom log_line_prefix as
defined in your postgresql.conf. Only use it if you
aren't using one of the standard prefixes specified
in the pgBadger documentation, such as if your
prefix includes additional variables like client IP
or application name. MUST contain escape sequences
for time (%t, %m or %n) and processes (%p or %c).
See examples below.
-P | --no-prettify : disable SQL queries prettify formatter.
-q | --quiet : don't print anything to stdout, not even a progress
bar.
-Q | --query-numbering : add numbering of queries to the output when using
options --dump-all-queries or --normalized-only.
-r | --remote-host ip : set the host where to execute the cat command on
remote log file to parse the file locally.
-R | --retention N : number of weeks to keep in incremental mode. Defaults
to 0, disabled. Used to set the number of weeks to
keep in output directory. Older weeks and days
directories are automatically removed.
-s | --sample number : number of query samples to store. Default: 3.
-S | --select-only : only report SELECT queries.
-t | --top number : number of queries to store/display. Default: 20.
-T | --title string : change title of the HTML page report.
-u | --dbuser username : only report on entries for the given user.
-U | --exclude-user username : exclude entries for the specified user from
report. Can be used multiple time.
-v | --verbose : enable verbose or debug mode. Disabled by default.
-V | --version : show pgBadger version and exit.
-w | --watch-mode : only report errors just like logwatch could do.
-W | --wide-char : encode html output of queries into UTF8 to avoid
Perl message "Wide character in print".
-x | --extension : output format. Values: text, html, bin or json.
Default: html
-X | --extra-files : in incremental mode allow pgBadger to write CSS and
JS files in the output directory as separate files.
-z | --zcat exec_path : set the full path to the zcat program. Use it if
zcat, bzcat or unzip is not in your path.
-Z | --timezone +/-XX : Set the number of hours from GMT of the timezone.
Use this to adjust date/time in JavaScript graphs.
The value can be an integer, ex.: 2, or a float,
ex.: 2.5.
--anonymize : obscure all literals in queries, useful to hide
--charset : used to set the HTML charset to be used.
Default: utf-8.
--command CMD : command to execute to retrieve log entries on
stdin. pgBadger will open a pipe to the command
and parse log entries generated by the command.
--csv-separator : used to set the CSV field separator, default: ,
--day-report YYYY-MM-DD: create an HTML report over the specified day.
Requires incremental output directories and the
presence of all necessary binary data files
--disable-autovacuum : do not generate autovacuum report.
confidential data.
--disable-checkpoint : do not generate checkpoint/restartpoint report.
--disable-connection : do not generate connection report.
--disable-error : do not generate error report.
--disable-hourly : do not generate hourly report.
--disable-lock : do not generate lock report.
--disable-query : do not generate query reports (slowest, most
frequent, queries by users, by database, ...).
--disable-session : do not generate session report.
--disable-temporary : do not generate temporary report.
--disable-type : do not generate report of queries by type, database
or user.
--dump-all-queries : dump all queries found in the log file replacing
bind parameters included in the queries at their
respective placeholders positions.
--dump-raw-csv : parse the log and dump the information into CSV
format. No further processing is done, no report.
--enable-checksum : used to add an md5 sum under each query report.
--exclude-appname name : exclude entries for the specified application name
from report. Example: "pg_dump". Can be used
multiple times.
--exclude-client name : exclude log entries for the specified client ip.
Can be used multiple times.
--exclude-db name : exclude entries for the specified database from
report. Example: "postgres". Can be used multiple
times.
--exclude-file filename: path of the file that contains each regex to use
to exclude queries from the report. One regex per
line.
--exclude-line regex : exclude any log entry that will match the given
regex. Can be used multiple times.
--exclude-query regex : any query matching the given regex will be excluded
from the report. For example: "^(VACUUM|COMMIT)"
You can use this option multiple times.
--exclude-time regex : any timestamp matching the given regex will be
excluded from the report. Example: "2013-04-12 .*"
You can use this option multiple times.
--explain-url URL : use it to override the url of the graphical explain
tool. Default: https://explain.depesz.com/
--histogram-query VAL : use custom inbound for query times histogram.
Default inbound in milliseconds:
0,1,5,10,25,50,100,500,1000,10000
--histogram-session VAL: use custom inbound for session times histogram.
Default inbound in milliseconds:
0,500,1000,30000,60000,600000,1800000,3600000,28800000
--include-file filename: path of the file that contains each regex to the
queries to include from the report. One regex per
line.
--include-query regex : any query that does not match the given regex will
be excluded from the report. You can use this
option multiple times. For example: "(tbl1|tbl2)".
--include-pid PID : only report events related to the session pid (%p).
Can be used multiple time.
--include-session ID : only report events related to the session id (%c).
Can be used multiple time.
--include-time regex : only timestamps matching the given regex will be
included in the report. Example: "2013-04-12 .*"
You can use this option multiple times.
--iso-week-number : in incremental mode, calendar weeks start on
Monday and respect the ISO 8601 week number, range
01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has
at least 4 days in the new year.
--keep-comments : do not remove comments from normalized queries. It
can be useful if you want to distinguish between
same normalized queries.
--journalctl command : command to use to replace PostgreSQL logfile by
a call to journalctl. Basically it might be:
journalctl -u postgresql-9.5
--log-duration : force pgBadger to associate log entries generated
by both log_duration = on and log_statement = 'all'
--log-timezone +/-XX : Set the number of hours from GMT of the timezone
that must be used to adjust date/time read from
log file before beeing parsed. Using this option
makes log search with a date/time more difficult.
The value can be an integer, ex.: 2, or a float,
ex.: 2.5.
--month-report YYYY-MM : create a cumulative HTML report over the specified
month. Requires incremental output directories and
the presence of all necessary binary data files
--noexplain : do not process lines generated by auto_explain.
--no-fork : do not fork any process, for debugging purpose.
--no-process-info : disable changing process title to help identify
pgbadger process, some system do not support it.
--no-progressbar : disable progressbar.
--noreport : no reports will be created in incremental mode.
--no-week : inform pgbadger to not build weekly reports in
incremental mode. Useful if it takes too much time.
--normalized-only : only dump all normalized queries to out.txt
--pgbouncer-only : only show PgBouncer-related menus in the header.
--pid-dir path : set the path where the pid file must be stored.
Default /tmp
--pid-file file : set the name of the pid file to manage concurrent
execution of pgBadger. Default: pgbadger.pid
--pie-limit num : pie data lower than num% will show a sum instead.
--prettify-json : use it if you want json output to be prettified.
--rebuild : used to rebuild all html reports in incremental
output directories where there's binary data files.
--start-monday : in incremental mode, calendar weeks start on
Sunday. Use this option to start on a Monday.
--tempdir DIR : set directory where temporary files will be written
Default: File::Spec->tmpdir() || '/tmp'
pgBadger is able to parse a remote log file using a passwordless ssh connection.
Use -r or –remote-host to set the host IP address or hostname. There are also
some additional options to fully control the ssh connection.
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--ssh-identity file path to the identity file to use.
--ssh-option options list of -o options to use for the ssh connection.
Options always used:
-o ConnectTimeout=$ssh_timeout
-o PreferredAuthentications=hostbased,publickey
--ssh-port port ssh port to use for the connection. Default: 22.
--ssh-program ssh path to the ssh program to use. Default: ssh.
--ssh-timeout second timeout to ssh connection failure. Default: 10 sec.
--ssh-user username connection login name. Defaults to running user.
Log file to parse can also be specified using an URI, supported protocols are
http[s] and [s]ftp. The curl command will be used to download the file, and the
file will be parsed during download. The ssh protocol is also supported and will
use the ssh command like with the remote host use. See examples bellow.
Return codes:
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0: on success
1: die on error
2: if it has been interrupted using ctr+c for example
3: the pid file already exists or can not be created
4: no log file was given at command line
Examples:
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pgbadger /var/log/postgresql.log
pgbadger /var/log/postgres.log.2.gz /var/log/postgres.log.1.gz /var/log/postgres.log
pgbadger /var/log/postgresql/postgresql-2012-05-*
pgbadger --exclude-query="^(COPY|COMMIT)" /var/log/postgresql.log
pgbadger -b "2012-06-25 10:56:11" -e "2012-06-25 10:59:11" /var/log/postgresql.log
cat /var/log/postgres.log | pgbadger -
# Log line prefix with stderr log output
pgbadger --prefix '%t [%p]: user=%u,db=%d,client=%h' /pglog/postgresql-2012-08-21*
pgbadger --prefix '%m %u@%d %p %r %a : ' /pglog/postgresql.log
# Log line prefix with syslog log output
pgbadger --prefix 'user=%u,db=%d,client=%h,appname=%a' /pglog/postgresql-2012-08-21*
# Use my 8 CPUs to parse my 10GB file faster, much faster
pgbadger -j 8 /pglog/postgresql-10.1-main.log
This will help avoid having COPY statements, as generated by pg_dump, on top of
the list of slowest queries. You can also use –exclude-appname “pg_dump” to
solve this problem in a simpler way.
You can also parse journalctl output just as if it was a log file:
this will stream Heroku PostgreSQL log to pgbadger through stdin.
pgBadger can auto detect RDS and cloudwatch PostgreSQL logs using
rds format:
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pgbadger -f rds -o rds_out.html rds.log
Each CloudSQL Postgresql log is a fairly normal PostgreSQL log, but encapsulated
in JSON format. It is autodetected by pgBadger but in case you need to force
the log format use `jsonlog`:
this will add a link to the month name into the calendar view in
incremental reports to look at report for month 2019 May.
Use -E or –explode if the reports were built using this option.