Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.6.
Changelog:
Added new RDS instance classes to RDS scripts.
Added boto profile support to RDS scripts.
Added AWS region support and ability to specify all regions to RDS scripts.
Added ability to set AWS region and boto profile on data source level in Cacti.
Added period, average time […]
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.5.
Changelog:
Added more DB instance classes to pmp-check-aws-rds.py (issue 1398911)
Added configurable query period and average time to pmp-check-aws-rds.py (issue 1436943)
Added region support to pmp-check-aws-rds.py (issue 1442980)
Added an option to alert when server is not configured as replica to pmp-check-mysql-replication-delay (issue 1357017)
Added an option to […]
This post is a follow-up to my November 19 webinar, “Tips from the Trenches: A Guide to Preventing Downtime for the Over-Extended DBA,” during which I described some of the most common reasons DBAs experience avoidable downtime. The session was aimed at the “over-stretched DBA,” identified as the MySQL DBA short of time or […]
Read moreDid your logging stop working after you set up logrotate? Then this post might be for you.
Archive your log files!
Some time ago, Peter Boros wrote about Rotating MySQL Slow Logs safely, explaining the steps of a “best practice” log rotate/archive. This post will add more info about the topic.
When running logrotate for MySQL (after […]
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.4.
Changelog:
* Added login-path support to Nagios plugins with MySQL client 5.6 (bug 1338549)
* Added a new threshold option for delayed slaves to pmp-check-mysql-replication-delay (bug 1318280)
* Added delayed slave support to pmp-check-mysql-replication-running (bug 1332082)
* Updated Nagios plugins and Cacti script to leverage lock-free SHOW […]
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.3.
Changelog:
* Introduced more secure location of PHP script configs to harden a Cacti setup
* Addressed CVE-2014-2569
We have introduced a more secure location /etc/cacti/ for PHP script configs. Earlier, the only way was to keep .php.cnf configs inside of scripts/ folder which falls under […]
Read moreIf you are using Percona Monitoring Plugins for Cacti, this article should be important to you.
By default, the Cacti setup is closed from accessing from Web. Here is an excerpt from /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf:
Shell
# httpd 2.4
Require host localhost
# httpd 2.2
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost
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# httpd 2.4 Require host localhost # httpd 2.2 Order deny,allow Deny from all Allow from localhost
In […]
Read morePercona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.2.
Changelog:
* Added Nagios plugin and Cacti template for Amazon RDS
* Added Nagios config template to the documentation
* Added an option to pmp-check-pt-table-checksum to check MAX(ts) of latest checksum
* Added generic Nagios plugin for PT tables
* Extended pmp-check-mysql-processlist with max user connections check
* Zabbix […]
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.1 to address the critical bug that appears after the 1.1 upgrade.
Changelog:
* Cacti mysql graphs stop working with data input field “server-id” after 1.1 upgrade (bug 1264814)
* Non-integer poller errors for MySQL Query Response Time (bug 1264353)
A new tarball is available from downloads area or RPM […]
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios, Cacti and Zabbix, and are delivered in the form of templates, plugins, and scripts.
In this release we have added MySQL template for Zabbix 2.0.x adopted from the existing […]
