How Postgres Audit Tables Saved Us from Taking Down Production

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  • pgaudit

    PostgreSQL Audit Extension

  • You can use pgaudit, it's an extension that let's you audit DDL/DML statements. It's a great auditing mechanism. I use it on all our prod postgres instances, but have only "DML" enabled, because of the potential performance overhead

    https://github.com/pgaudit/pgaudit

  • temporal_tables

    Temporal Tables PostgreSQL Extension

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  • debezium

    Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://issues.redhat.com/browse/DBZ.

  • An overkill-but-robust solution is Redhat's Debezium [1]. It works with multiple databases, but for Postgres specifically uses the logical decoding API that underpins replication. Changes are pushed into Kafka, or a custom app-specific connector.

    https://github.com/debezium/debezium

  • Embulk

    Embulk: Pluggable Bulk Data Loader.

  • Debezium is awesome, thanks for the great work! It's in my toolbox for when embulk [1] batch processing doesn't cut it.

    https://github.com/embulk/embulk

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