First, a thank you to everyone who attended the webinar Today, I appreciate your time and nice comments. As promised, here are answers to questions that couldn’t be answered during the talk: Q: How do you install the tools? The manual has full details, but it’s important to know that the latest release for [...]
Realtime stats to pay attention to in Percona XtraDB Cluster and Galera
November 26, 2012 By 4 Comments
I learn more and more about Galera every day. As I learn more, I try to keep my myq_gadgets toolkit up to date with what I consider is important to keep any eye on on a PXC node. In that spirit, I just today pushed some changes to the ‘wsrep’ report, and I thought I’d go over [...]
Percona Toolkit version 2.1.6 released
November 15, 2012 By 3 Comments
The Percona Toolkit team is happy to announce the release of Percona Toolkit version 2.1.6. This is the sixth stable release in the 2.1 series, and primarily a bug-fix release; We suggest that users upgrade to the latest version of the tools. The complete list of changes is on the Launchpad milestone for 2.1.6, but [...]
Released: Percona Toolkit 2.1.5
October 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Although Percona Toolkit 2.1.4 was recently released, we soon after found and fixed a couple of bugs concerning how pt-table-checksum works with Percona XtraDB Cluster: pt-table-checksum 2.1.4 doesn’t detect diffs on Percona XtraDB Cluster nodes pt-table-checksum 2.1.4 miscategorizes Percona XtraDB Cluster-based slaves as cluster nodes There was also a bug affecting pt-table-sync –version-check, and the [...]
Percona Toolkit version 2.1.4 released
September 26, 2012 By 2 Comments
The Percona Toolkit team is happy to announce the release of Percona Toolkit version 2.1.4. This is the fourth stable release in the 2.1 series, and primarily a bug-fix release; We suggest that users upgrade to the latest version of the tools. The complete list of changes is on the Launchpad milestone for 2.1.4, but [...]
Percona Toolkit versions 2.0.5 and 2.1.2 released
June 12, 2012 By 1 Comment
The Percona Toolkit team is happy to announce the release of Percona Toolkit versions 2.0.5 and 2.1.2. These are bug-fix releases in the 2.0 and 2.1 series, respectively. These releases fix many dozens of bugs, and we suggest that users upgrade to the latest versions of the tools. The complete list of changes is on [...]
Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool
April 5, 2012 By 10 Comments
I’m proud to announce the GA release of version 2.1 of Percona Toolkit. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL. With this release we introduce a new version of pt-online-schema-change, a tool that enables you to ALTER large tables with no blocking or downtime. As you know, MySQL locks tables for [...]
Percona Toolkit 2.0.4 released
March 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Percona Toolkit version 2.0.4 is available for immediate download. This release fixes 25 bugs and is a bug-fix release only, with the exception of a minor new filtering option for pt-kill. The change log is available on Launchpad. There are links to the documentation, downloads, bug reporting system, and mailing list on the toolkit homepage. [...]
How to Monitor MySQL with Percona’s Nagios Plugins
February 22, 2012 By 11 Comments
In this post, I’ll cover the new MySQL monitoring plugins we created for Nagios, and explain their features and intended purpose. I want to add a little context. What problem were we trying to solve with these plugins? Why yet another set of MySQL monitoring plugins? The typical problem with Nagios monitoring (and indeed with [...]
Announcing Percona Toolkit Release 2.0.3
February 6, 2012 By 2 Comments
We’ve released Percona Toolkit 2.0.3, with a couple of major improvements and many minor ones. You can download it, read the documentation, and get support for it. What’s new? You can read the changelog for the details, but here are the highlights: Brand new pt-diskstats, thanks to Brian Fraser. This tool is completely rewritten, and [...]
