We are excited to announce that VividCortex now supports MongoDB, a flexible and scalable NoSQL database. After announcing PostgreSQL support in January and Redis in April, our brainiacs continue to create a unified solution for diverse systems.

During the beta period, VividCortex’s MongoDB customers were impressed, as Chris Clarke, DevOps engineer at Parse.ly states: “VividCortex’s highly granular data, including detailed information about each query made against our MongoDB clusters, is invaluable. Installation was a breeze, and the system immediately spotted two problematic queries that had evaded all our other monitoring systems.”

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Performance Schema (PS) has been the subject of many, many recent discussions, presentations, and articles.  After its release in MySQL 5.7, PS has become the main actor for people who want to take the further steps in MySQL monitoring. At the same time, it has become clear that Oracle intends to make PS powerful with so many features and new instrumentation that old-style monitoring will begin to look like obsolete tools from the Stone Age.

This article will explain PS and provide guidance on what needs to be done in order to use it effectively.

What I am not going to do is to dig into specific performance issues or address polemics about what PS is and what, in a Utopian vision, it should be. I have seen too many presentations, articles and comments like this and they are not productive, nor are they in line with my target which is: keep people informed on how to do things EASILY.

For the scope of this …

recheck module path under rediusd.conf or may be it’s an issue with permission or
version mismatch for modules .so files

We’ve added a fullscreen (kiosk) mode to VividCortex, perfect for livestreaming a dashboard to a big monitor on your wall. Fullscreen mode uses native browser functionality to request fullscreen access, so there’s no need to try to hide your tab bar. Simply click the little icon in the top right corner of any screen:

The app will not only go into fullscreen mode but will hide all the “chrome” used for navigation. You will see a minimalistic header that just shows the time interval you’ve selected.

Naturally, you’ll want to start livestreaming before you fullscreen, so your monitor will refresh with updated data continually.

Enjoy!

And remember, VividCortex makes you look smart …

This Log Buffer edition sheds light on the ongoing innovations and updates in the SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle realms.

Oracle:

• Warning: standby redo logs not configured for thread – BUG
• SLOB 2.3 is soon to be released. This version has a lot of new, important features but also a significant amount of tuning in the data loading kit.
• Even in the highly volatile world of JavaScript frameworks, AngularJS is still very clearly leading the pack.
• Are you …

I just dove into Tungsten replicator very recently as I need to replicate from Amazon RDS to Redshift. I’d heard a lot of great things about Tungsten, but had yet to really dig my heels in. Join 28,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. I fetched the binary and began to dig through … Continue reading Wrestling with bears or how I tamed Tungsten replicator →

Developer Studio.. JavaScript.. ClusterControl DSL.. database clusters.. huh? what the heck is going on here? This might seem like a mix up of random tech terms, but it’s really a pretty cool feature that we’ve just released.  

With ClusterControl 1.2.10, we introduced our new, powerful ClusterControl DSL (Domain Specific Language), which allows you to extend the functionality of your ClusterControl platform by creating Advisors, Auto Tuners, or “mini Programs”. The DSL syntax is based on JavaScript, with extensions to provide access to ClusterControl’s internal data structures and functions. The DSL allows you to execute SQL statements, run shell commands/programs across all your cluster hosts, and retrieve results to be processed for advisors/alerts or any other actions.

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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.11 on May 28, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

New …

New ClusterControl release includes customisation language for management and automation

 
Stockholm, Sweden and anywhere else in the world - 27 MAY 2015 - Severalnines, the provider of database infrastructure management software, today launched the latest version of its ClusterControl platform. This database automation product cuts down time for businesses to deploy, monitor, manage and scale multiple open source databases. With this latest release, Severalnines is helping database and system administrators take full control of their database resources.  

Management of databases is increasing in complexity as companies need to meet higher uptime requirements for their data, plus provide security when it is distributed across public/private clouds in a diverse, virtualised infrastructure. Customisation of management tools with simple …

Fellow lovers of tech,

We are pumped to sponsor the MongoDB Open House hosted by Percona. The event will be across the street from MongoDB World at the New York Hilton Midtown on June 1st so make plans quickly.

It is free and all are welcome.

Below are featured talks:

• “MATH is Hard: TTL Index Configuration and Considerations,” by Kim Wilkins of Rackspace
• “Implementing MongoDB 3.0 Storage Engine,” with Facebook’s Igor Canadi and Christian Rober of Percona
• “Is it Fast: Measuring MongoDB Performance,” by Tim Callaghan of Acme Benchmarking
• “MongoDB for MySQL Users,” by Percona’s Alexander Rubin
• “Rolling out RocksDB in Production,” by Charity Majors of Facebook
• “Percona TokuMX and Percona TokuMXSE Performance …