I was reviewing the Percona Live sponsors list the other day and pondering the potential success stories associated with this product or that one…. and as I was preparing to put more thought on the topic, a PlanetMySQL post caught my eye. It was penned by Mike Hogan and titled, “Thoughts on Xeround and Free!” [...]
Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.3 for MySQL now available
April 23, 2013 By 4 Comments
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.3 for MySQL — high-quality components to add enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing capabilities to your existing in-house, on-premises monitoring solutions. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios and Cacti, and are delivered in the form of [...]
Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.2 release: enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing capabilities
February 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.2 — high-quality components to add enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing capabilities to your existing in-house, on-premises monitoring solutions. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios and Cacti, and are delivered in the form of templates, plugins, [...]
Join us for our first Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh, N.C. Jan 29
January 10, 2013 By 4 Comments
At Percona we focus on education a lot, which we believe is critical for us to be successful with our mission of making businesses successful with their use of MySQL. The MySQL Performance Blog, our first effort in this space, by now contains over 1,000 technical articles. We have spoken on countless conferences and Meetups [...]
Vote for Percona Server in the 2013 DeveloperWeek Awards
January 3, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Are you a fan of Percona Server? You can show your support by casting a vote for Percona Server in the SQL Technologies Top Innovator 2013 category of the DeveloperWeek Awards. You can vote through January 7, and voting is easy. Just login, select Percona from the alphabetical list, and cast your vote Why bother [...]
Distro Packages, Pre-built Binaries or Compile Your Own MySQL
September 4, 2012 By 7 Comments
I’ve been helping customers deploy and maintain MySQL (and variants) for the last couple of years and it has always been interesting to hear customer thoughts on how they want their servers installed. It has also been asked many times not only by our support and consulting customers, but widely from different forums and blogs [...]
Month of August in Percona Community Forums
August 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
This month was a busy month in Percona Community Forums with a lot of great questions asked and most answered. It is great to see both independent community and Percona employees participating in discussion. Thank you. Here are some things you would learn from following Percona Forums in August: How to get PAM authentication plugin [...]
Percona’s “Developer Training for MySQL” is now available via Live Virtual Training
July 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Today, Percona announces that Live Virtual Training is now an option for busy professionals. We set out to develop a training solution that balances the time to deliver the content with the amount of time an attendee can participate in a live virtual training (LVT) session. The goal was to ensure there was still time [...]
Release 1.0.1 of Percona Monitoring Plugins
June 15, 2012 By 1 Comment
Version 1.0.1 of the Percona Monitoring Plugins is released. This is a routine bug-fix release that addresses several minor issues. The Percona Monitoring Plugins are high-quality components to add enterprise-grade MySQL monitoring and graphing capabilities to your existing in-house, on-premises monitoring solutions. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as [...]
How to diagnose errors in the MySQL error log
March 26, 2012 By 4 Comments
I frequently see questions about how to understand the nature of errors in MySQL’s error log. Now, there is a lot of complexity to this — the flowchart would be quite large, as with any nontrivial piece of software. But there is one particular class of errors that is relatively easy to diagnose, if you [...]
