Postgres Long Running Active Queries Send To Slack

I needed a utility to alert our team when any long running queries were running on a production postgres cluster. I came up with the following python code that achieves just that. This would alert slack if an active query exceeds 45 mins. The script takes in user parameters as well, I will demonstrate the way to call it. Hope it helps someone.

CRON CALL:

CODE:

SLACK MESSAGE:

Python Function Execute Subprocess With Timeout

I have a project that rsync’s data from an RPM repository for a local version of this repo. The issue I was faced with was the remote mirror would sometimes stop the rsync due to overloaded network or other unforeseen issues. I wanted to use rsyncs hashing algorithm to have it start right where it left off so I wrote a function to do this. If 900 seconds was hit it usually meant there was an issue with the transfer. I also want to state here that I observed the rsync stop serving issue on many mirrors so it was not just an issue with the TCP network. I use this in production and it logs each iteration or restart. The function below will also kill the current rsync so multiple copies are not running at the same time. I also only wanted to perform 5 iterations of rsync upon error or timeout so I use a while loop here.

Here are the individual rsync commands in the INI configuration.

Here is how I call the execute_jobs_timeout() function:

The function:

Log Snippet showing each command executing: