Revision 76 of mycheckpoint comes with quite a few improvements, including: OS monitoring (CPU, load average, memory) Auto-deploy Improved charting Brief HTML reports 24/7 charts OS Monitoring When monitoring the local machine, mycheckpoint now monitors CPU utilization, load average, memory and swap space. This only applies to the Linux operating system; there is currently no [...]
I'm proud to announce mycheckpoint, a monitoring utility for MySQL, with strong emphasis on user accessibility to monitored data. mycheckpoint is a different kind of monitoring tool. It leaves the power in the user's hand. It's power is not with script-based calculations of recorded data. It's with the creation of a view hierarchy, which allows [...]
It is my great pleasure to announce the availability of the openark kit, a set of lightweight utilities for MySQL, which eases every day tasks. The available tools are: oak-apply-ri: apply referential integrity on two columns with parent-child relationship. oak-block-account: block or release MySQL users accounts, disabling them or enabling them to login. oak-kill-slow-queries: terminate [...]
There's a lot of buzz around memcached. memcached is widely used, and has clients for many programming languages and platforms. TangentOrg have developed a memcached client in the form of MySQL UDFs (User Defined Functions). I wish to discuss the memcached functions for MySQL: if and how they should be used. Disclaimer: I do not [...]