rdspgbadger 1.2.2

Fetch logs from RDS postgres instance and use them with pgbadger to generate a report.

RDS-pgBadger

Fetches RDS log files and analyzes them with pgBadger.

Prerequisites

Make sure your credentials are set in the ~/.aws/credentials file. Also, you can set a region in the ~/.aws/config file, so passing region option to the script is not needed. Last but not least, make sure you have pgbadger installed and reacheable from your $PATH.

Parameter group

You will have to configure your database parameter group.

First of all, ensure log_min_duration_statement is set to 0 or higher, else you won’t have anything to be parsed.

Then you must enable some other parameters to get more information in the logs.

Parameter	Value
log_checkpoints	1
log_connections	1
log_disconnections	1
log_lock_waits	1
log_temp_files	0
log_autovacuum_min_duration	0

Also make sure lc_messages is either at engine default or set to C.

For further details, please refer to Dalibo’s pgBadger documentation.

Installation

You can install it using pip:

$ pip install rdspgbadger

Usage

To build a pgbadger report, just run the following (replacing instanceid by your instance ID):

$ rds-pgbadger instanceid

Options

Only the Instance ID is mandatory, but there are also other options you can use:

• -d, –date : by default the script downloads all the available logs. By specifying a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD, you can then download only that day’s logs.

• -r, –region : by default the script use the region specified in your AWS config file. If none, or if you wish to change it, you can use this option to do so.

• -o, –output : by default the script outputs log files and reports to the out folder. This option allows you to change it.

• -n, –no-process : download log file(s), but do not process them with pgBadger.

• -X, –pgbadger-args : command-line arguments to pass to pgBadger

• –assume-role : By specifying a role you can use STS to assume a role, which is useful for cross account access with out having to setup the .config file. Format arn:aws:iam::<account_id>:<role_name>

Known issue

In spite of the great work of askainet, AWS API seems to be too instable, and sometimes download of big log files can fail. In such case retrying a few minutes later seems to work.

see pull request 10

Contribute

For any request, feel free to make a pull request or fill an issue on Github.