I’ve been looking over the documentation lately and trying to find ways to improve the installation experience for new users. That said, I’ve written a short but useful description of the easiest way to install all of the Perl and PHP requirements for Kontrollbase. You can find it here: http://kontrollsoft.com/kontrollbase/userguide/installation-install_overview.php#simple – or in the Installation [...]

A new version of Kontrollbase – the enterprise monitoring, analytics, reporting, and historical analysis webapp for MySQL database administrators and advanced users of MySQL databases – is available for download. See the downloads page or run “svn update” to get your new version today. http://kontrollsoft.com/software-downloads

If you have seen the following error on the Perf Report tab “Message: SimpleXMLElement::__construct()…” – it has been fixed in revision 281. This only affects alerts 11 and 12 so you might not run into it immediately. The solution is to either remove lines “586, 590, 639, 650″ from the bin/kontroll-reporter-5.0.x_linux-x86-2.0.1.pl file, or to run [...]

It didn’t take long, but the advanced analytics reporting code has been added to the command line reporter version of Kontrollbase. Click here to see an example of the tuning and analytics report output (html format). Now you have all of the reporting features (minus the growth over time) features that are offered in the [...]

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If you have recently downloaded or checked out a new version of Kontrollbase and find that you need to upgrade the schema from a previous version then you will probably find this post useful. If you don’t know if you need to upgrade then you probably do, so read along for a bit just to [...]

Good news for everyone that has wanted the performance tuning abilities of Kontrollbase – the opensource enterprise monitor for MySQL – but didn’t want to install a centralized monitoring application for their MySQL database servers. Now the same performance tuning reports are available in a single script that can be run from the command line [...]

The latest version of Kontrollbase – the opensource enterprise MySQL analytics and performance tuning application –  is available for download. Since the previous one, version 225, there have been a lot of great changes. The most significant being the development and inclusion of the Reporter CLI script – which is a combination of the client, [...]

It may sound like a dramatic number, and that’s because it is. One thing that is enjoyable about working on beta applications is finding new solutions and better methods to improve the user experience. The original method for displaying the recent addition of overview analytics data in the beta version of Kontrollbase was to run [...]

I recently was asked the following from a Kontrollbase user via email. Since this question might be asked by others I’m posting my response so that the user community can have the answer available right here, right now. Question “I am unable to locate the slow / general queries list as well as processlist. Does [...]