I had trouble today on a client site using my MySQL power tools Maatkit and Statpack.

$ ~/scripts/statpack.py --files=mysql.status.091015.080001.txt,mysql.status.091015.090001.txt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/rbradfor/scripts/statpack.py", line 563, in ?
    main()
  File "/home/rbradfor/scripts/statpack.py", line 527, in main
    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_NUMERIC, '')
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/locale.py", line 381, in setlocale
    return _setlocale(category, locale)
locale.Error: unsupported locale setting

$ cat /var/log/slow-query.log | ./mk-query-digest
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "e_US"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard …

I’ve finally gotten around to adding the last little things that I wanted to do to version 2 of Statpack - my python script for aggregating SHOW [GLOBAL] STATUS output.

Now it connects to a running instance, and allows you to gather statistics from there to generate reports.

Here are the options it supports:

[markleith@medusa:~/Development/statpack/statpack-v2] $ ./statpack.py

Error: No arguments supplied
usage: ./statpack.py [list of arguments]

Non-interactive mode (aggregate txt files containing SHOW STATUS snapshots):

-f –files List of statistics files to aggregate (–files=stat1.txt[, stat2.txt..])
Argument must be first within list of arguments, on it’s own

Interactive mode (connect to running MySQL server for SHOW STATUS snapshots):

-h –host Host for MySQL server to connect to in interactive mode
…