title: How to make zabbix monitor django apps on an apache server
body: <p>I have an apache server under Debian that runs several RESTful application written in Python with Django and Piston. These apps use SQLAlchemy to access data from a MySQL server. The server is monitored by Zabbix and I already have metrics for threads running, memory consumption, etc. But there are things that require a little more 'introspection', like the number of active database connections and other info about the connection pool (max and min connections, etc). I searched the web and SO and found nothing in this respect. I don't know much about SQLAlchemy (I'm just using it to make Django support connection pooling), does it have means of exposing the required information? If yes, probably what I want should be easy to implement, since there's a Python lib for Zabbix access. Any recommendations about the implementation?</p>