+# postgres
+
+Module monitors one or more postgres servers.
+
+**Requirements:**
+
+ * `python-psycopg2` package. You have to install to manually.
+
+Following charts are drawn:
+
+1. **Database size** MB
+ * size
+
+2. **Current Backend Processes** processes
+ * active
+
+3. **Write-Ahead Logging Statistics** files/s
+ * total
+ * ready
+ * done
+
+4. **Checkpoints** writes/s
+ * scheduled
+ * requested
+
+5. **Current connections to db** count
+ * connections
+
+6. **Tuples returned from db** tuples/s
+ * sequential
+ * bitmap
+
+7. **Tuple reads from db** reads/s
+ * disk
+ * cache
+
+8. **Transactions on db** transactions/s
+ * commited
+ * rolled back
+
+9. **Tuples written to db** writes/s
+ * inserted
+ * updated
+ * deleted
+ * conflicts
+
+10. **Locks on db** count per type
+ * locks
+
+### configuration
+
+```yaml
+socket:
+ name : 'socket'
+ user : 'postgres'
+ database : 'postgres'
+
+tcp:
+ name : 'tcp'
+ user : 'postgres'
+ database : 'postgres'
+ host : 'localhost'
+ port : 5432
+```
+
+When no configuration file is found, module tries to connect to TCP/IP socket: `localhost:5432`.
+
+---
+