Monthly archives for December, 2008
themattreid – RSS change –...
Update for all of the RSS subscribers of this site: please update your RSS feed to the new feedburner address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Themattreid?format=xml
I’ll keep the original feed link active for a while but please change to the new one when you get a chance. Oh, why not just do it now since you’re on the internet and [...]
Daily growth expectations for Kontrol...
Data storage requirements for Kontrollbase [monolith] server_statistics + server_report tables. These are the tables that accept incoming data from the polling processes. They hold the historical data for each server that’s being monitored.
AVG Per Server
Assuming stats every 10 minutes = 144/day
Assuming reports every hour = 24/day
1 [...]
Monolith DBA Toolkit 0.4.3 Released
The Monolith Toolkit of scripts for DBA routines. 0.4.3 has been released. You can download it here: http://code.google.com/p/monolith-toolkit/
Some information on the toolkit and what it contains:
mt-backup-parallel -> runs mysql backups in parallel super fast, has lots of reporting features
mt-check-replication -> script to report [...]
Frustration with Community vs Entepri...
I was working on a client’s server today to troubleshoot some variances between the result timing of some queries. Guess what I came across – the profiler is not available in certain enterprise releases but it is available on community versions of the same release number.
I can understand if that feature was something that wasn& [...]
On the reporting engine, and a new na...
Update for all of those that are following the progress of Monolith. I’ve been busy this week coding the reporting engine – the code that analyses the hundreds of variables that are being collected – and I’m pleased to say that Perl was the correct choice for this application.Installation on the client servers will b [...]
Seeking volunteer test machines for M...
Monolith: MySQL server monitoring. I only have servers that run Redhat/Debian/Ubuntu Linux x86 and x86_64. I don’t have machines to test MySQL monitoring for the following OSes. Perhaps you would like to be a test candidate for the new version of Monolith? If so, let me know and you’ll be on the list, as well as get beta testing [...]
