by Vadim Tkachenko | May 14, 2014 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
We just released, as an open source release, our new percona-agent the agent to work with Percona Cloud Tools. This agent is written in Go. There will be more posts about percona-agent, but in the meantime I want to dedicate this one to Go, Go with MySQL and some...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Mar 18, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
Two weeks ago we released
by Muhammad Irfan | Mar 14, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
MySQL has a nice feature: MySQL slow query log, which allows you to log all queries that exceed a predefined about of time to execute. Peter Zaitsev first wrote about this back in 2006 – there have been a few other posts here on the MySQL Performance Blog since...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 25, 2014 | MySQL
I’ve mentioned InfiniDB before in a previous post titled, “Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB,” but it’s been 4 years since that was published. Recently I evaluated column-storage solutions for Percona Cloud Tools and took...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 19, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
The Percona Cloud Tools beta service continues to grow its query analysis capabilities with new features for reviewing queries. These enhancements will: Provide better visibility into the query performance of your next code deployment Introduce query organization...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 11, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
A couple of weeks ago, shortly after Vadim wrote about Percona Cloud Tools and using Slow Query Log to capture the data, Mark Leith asked why don’t we just use Performance Schema instead? This is an interesting question and I think it deserves its own blog post...
by Michael Rikmas | Feb 3, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Here in Percona Support, we’re receiving several requests per day for help with Percona Cloud Tools installation steps. So I decided to prepare a step-by-step example of the installation process with some comments based on experience. Percona Cloud Tools is a...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 29, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software
In our practice we often see that MySQL performance optimization is done in a sort of “black magic” way. A common opinion is: “If there is a performance problem – then it must be a database issue, because what else could it be? And if this is a...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 16, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
This blog, MySQLPerformanceBlog.com, is powered by WordPress, but we never really looked into what kind of queries to MySQL are used by WordPress. So for couple months we ran a Query Analytics (part of Percona Cloud Tools) agent there, and now it is interesting to...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Jan 16, 2014 | Percona Software
Percona Cloud Tools, a new service currently in beta, applies Percona’s MySQL expertise to identify the best opportunities for application performance improvement. The first component of Percona Cloud Tools that’s now available is Query Analytics. Based on...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Jan 9, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
One of our primary focuses at Percona is performance. Let me make some statements on what is “performance.” In doing so I will refer to two pieces of content: Carry Millsap’s talk “Performance Instrumentation: Beyond What You Do Now” [1]...
by Daniel Nichter | Nov 5, 2013 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
I am proud to announce Percona Cloud Tools, the next generation of tools for MySQL. I have been developing tools for MySQL for 10 years. For the last 5 years, I have been developing Percona Toolkit (formerly “Maatkit”). Almost 1 year ago, we began...
