Many application developers would know of New Relic. A SaaS performance and monitoring tool targeted towards your web application monitoring including PHP, Ruby, Java, .Net, Python and Node.

With the release today (June 19, 2013) of the New Relic Platform, custom monitoring of data stores including MySQL are now possible. Try it now free. This link will provide you a free standard account (no cost, no billing details necessary), that enables you to perform application monitoring, server monitoring, MySQL instance monitoring and monitoring of many other products via many plugins.

Over the next few posts I will be discussing some of the design decisions I made for this MySQL plugin. New

We have had some success with the introduction of Glimpsee last month. Merci !
I would like to thanks all of you who have registered and those who are interested in Glimpsee without even really knowing what’s going on.
It is really important for us to feel enthusiasm about our work, because we work hard to provide a tool that could improve your life.

We hope to offer a public beta release of Glimpsee before the end of the year and many more surprises before. Meanwhile, we would like to offer you an incomplete FAQ about Glimpsee, enjoy :
 

What is Glimpsee?

A new release for mycheckpoint: lightweight, SQL oriented MySQL monitoring solution.

If you're unfamiliar with mycheckpoint, well, the one minute sales pitch is: it's a free and open source monitoring tool for MySQL, which is extremely easy to install and execute, and which includes custom queries, alerts (via emails), and out of the box HTTP server and

I was a guest on the Food Fight Show last week, along with a bevy of really smart people asking and answering tough questions on fault detection. We didn’t talk a lot about MySQL, but given that VividCortex is focusing on MySQL initially, pretty much all of my experience with zero-threshold, zero-configuration fault detection is MySQL-based.

It’s a fun conversation with a lot of insights into the industry, what’s wrong with current monitoring tools, and where monitoring is going. Also, it’s sold out now, but Monitorama is a conference you might be interested in if you’re doing monitoring (and who isn’t?)

• rolling restart
• stop cluster / start cluster

Devopsdays Mountainview sold out in a short 3 hours .. but there's other events that will breath devops this summer.
DrupalCon in Munich will be one of them ..

Some of you might have noticed that I`m cochairing the devops track for DrupalCon Munich,
The CFP is open till the 11th of this month and we are still actively looking for speakers.

We're trying to bridge the gap between drupal developers and the people that put their code to production, at scale.
But also enhancing the knowledge of infrastructure components Drupal developers depend on.

We're looking for talks both on culture (both success stories and failure) , automation,
specifically looking for people talking about drupal deployments , eg using tools like Capistrano, Chef, Puppet,
We want to hear where Continuous Integration fits in your deployment , do you do Continuous Delivery of a

Yesterday, I needed to determine the runtime of a Linux process for a monitoring script.

Cos the format for start_time of the ps command may change if the process was not started in the same year, I decided to take the neccessary informations from the /proc/<PID>/stat file.

In this file the process start time since boot is defined at the twenty-second field, expressed in Jiffies – the scale unit of the system timer. (One Jiffie is one tick of the system timer).

To convert Jiffies to seconds I just have to divide the number of Jiffies by the frequency (hertz) of the system timer, which is defined in the Linux Kernel header file include/asm-generic/param.h. The frequency may differ between Linux kernel versions and hardware

After switching from the Better Cacti Templates to the Percona Monitoring Plugins we suffered from the Query Response Time and the Query Time Histogram not graphing at all.

It took me a while to figure out why our new instance wasn’t graphing: the response time query was performing and the script was picking up its values. Also the rrd files were created but for some bizarre reason all values were set to “NaN”, in rrd/cacti terms: Not a Number. If you search on that subject you will come across a lot of (forum) postings stating you need to change your graph type to “GAUGE” or change the MIN/MAX values for your data templates. Strange as this

I've followed with interest on Baron's Why don’t our new Nagios plugins use caching? and Sheeri's Caching for Monitoring: Timing is Everything. I wish to present my take on this, from mycheckpoint's point of view.

So mycheckpoint works in a completely different way. On one hand, it doesn't bother with caching. On the other hand, it doesn't bother with re-reads of data.

There are no staleness issues, the data is consistent as it can get (you can never get a completely atomic read of everything in MySQL), and you can issue as many calculations as you want at the price of one take of monitoring. As in

If you're using MySQL replication, then you're probably counting on it for some fairly important need. Monitoring via something like Nagios is generally considered a best practice. This article assumes you've already got your Nagios server setup and your intention is to add a Ubuntu 10.04 NRPE client. This article also assumes the Ubuntu 10.04 NRPE client is your MySQL replication master, not the slave. The OS of the slave does not matter.

Getting the Nagios NRPE client setup on Ubuntu 10.04

At first it wasn't clear what packages would be appropriate packages to install. I was initially misled by the naming of the nrpe package, but I found the correct packages to be:

sudo apt-get install nagios-nrpe-server nagios-plugins

The NRPE configuration is stored in /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg, while the plugins are installed in

Regardless of the monitoring tool you use to monitor your databases, it can be better to monitor this tool.
No, it’s not a joke ! Do you think you can have a benefit with a monitoring tool not connected to your servers ? ( without being alerted )

I choose to talk about MONyog here but this can apply to all existing monitoring tools.
I just want to share the message, the tool does not matter, so, do it !

So, let me explain how to control if you have fresh data with MONyog.
With MONyog it’s easy because it’s an agentless monitoring tool.

There are two ways to check that :

Per server general info :

In this tutorial I will describe, how to use nmon (Nigel’s performance Monitor) to monitor performance data in the interactive mode or in the capture mode.

nmon can display / capture the following performance data

• CPU utilization
• Memory use
• Kernel statistics and run queue
• Disks I/O rates, transfers, and read/write ratios
• File systems size and free space
• Disk adapters
• Network I/O rates, transfers, and read/write ratios
• Paging space and paging rates
• Machine details, CPU and OS specification
• Top processors
• User defined disk groups
• Asynchronous I/O – AIX only
• Workload Manager – AIX only
• ESS and other disk subsystem – AIX only

What to Expect From this Version

Today I have released common_schema, a utility schema for MySQL which includes many views and functions, and is aimed to be installed on any MySQL server.

What does it do?

There are views answering for all sorts of useful information: stuff related to schema analysis, data dimensions, monitoring, processes & transactions, security, internals... There are basic functions answering for common needs.

Some of the views/routines simply formalize those queries we tend to write over and over again. Others take the place of external tools, answering complex questions via SQL and metadata. Still others help out with SQL generation.

Here are a few highlights:

• Did you know you can work out

We make a lot of posts that give IT tips and advice, as well as recommendations on how to use Monitis, so here is a summary of the posts for this week in case you missed them.

Monitoring IIS With VBScript via Monitis; It’s so Easy!

This post demonstrates how to monitor an IIS using Monitis Custom Monitors and VBscript. You can use the Monitis API to monitor your own custom metrics. This is very powerful because it lets you monitor any IIS metrics you like, set thresholds and receive notifications.

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Replication Capacity Index

#!/bin/bash

USERNAME=msandbox
PASSWORD=msandbox
EXPECTED_MASTER_HOST=127.0.0.1
EXPECTED_MASTER_PORT=27371

• bug 59942
• bug 59941
  

The Problem

CRIB is a CentRal Information Base for MySQL, a long time coming project since I worked on it on and off for a few weeks and now I decided it’s time to hand it over to the global MySQL community.

So, what is CRIB?

CRIB is a central database which collects information about all your MySQL instances which you set as clients. It is monitoring in a way, but not the typical number of connections, memory, index usage, table scans, cpu usage and such, but rather consists of a repository where, if you have tens, hundreds or even thousands of clients, you can see where a particular user was created, where a certain database name features or which tables does a database consists of. It also features a script which logs table sizes periodically (customizable) so you can graph disk usage over time and be able to forecast future disk space requirements

• Allows you to monitor ALL SQL statements executed by the

Revision 208 of mycheckpoint, a MySQL monitoring solution, has been released. New and updated in this revision:

• Aggregation tables: aggregated data makes for fast reports on previously slow queries.
• Enhanced charting: interactive charts now present time stamps dynamically (see demo); “Zoom in” charts are available (see demo) on mycheckpoint‘s HTTP server.
• RPM distribution: a “noarch” RPM

One... *billion* emails!

In email marketing there are senders of all shapes and sizes, from small businesses using self-serve ESPs to the largest web properties self-sending to massive user bases. While only a few senders will reach or exceed volumes of one billion messages per month, the tools and practices needed to achieve such a volume level are applicable to all senders who want to succeed in email marketing.

My name is Mike Hillyer (click here for bio and social links). I manage a team of Sales Engineers for Message Systems, a leading provider of digital messaging solutions for both

Revision 190 of mycheckpoint, a MySQL monitoring solution, has been released. New and updated in this revision:

• HTTP server: mycheckpoint can now act as a web server. Point your browser and start browsing through HTML reports. See mock up demo.
• Interactive charts: HTML line charts are now interactive, presenting with accurate data as you move over them. See sample.
• Enhanced auto-deploy: now auto-recognizing failed upgrades.