First, I would like to invite you to my webinar, “Monitoring All (Yes, All!) MySQL Metrics with Percona Cloud Tools,” on Wednesday, June 25 at 10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, where I will talk on the
new features in Percona Cloud Tools, including monitoring capabilities.

In this post I’d like to show the cool and interesting things we’ve implemented in Percona Cloud Tools, including the recently released agent that Daniel also talks about here in this post.

Basically our agent allows users to collect ALL MySQL metrics plus important …

There are many cool, new things happening with Percona Cloud Tools.  To avoid “tl;dr” I will highlight only one new feature after a brief, general announcement.  The new feature is a 3-minute MySQL monitor.  I’ll blog later about other features.

The general announcement is: Last week we quietly released a brand-new agent called percona-agent, and we added MySQL and system monitoring to Percona Cloud Tools.  We also wrote a brand-new API from the ground up.  We call it all “PCT v2″.  For you it means a better experience and more features, all still free while we’re in beta.

One new feature in Percona Cloud Tools v2 is MySQL monitoring in 3 minutes, i.e. a 3-minute MySQL monitor.  Let’s be honest about monitoring: We …

We just released, as an open source release, our new percona-agent (https://github.com/percona/percona-agent), the agent to work with Percona Cloud Tools. This agent is written in Go.

I will give a webinar titled “Monitoring All MySQL Metrics with Percona Cloud Tools” on June 25 that will cover the new features in percona-agent and Percona Cloud Tools, where I will also explain how it works. You are welcome to register now and join me. …

Two weeks ago we released an Alpha release of Percona Server with TokuDB. Right now I am on a final stage of evaluation of TokuDB for using in our project Percona Cloud Tools and it looks promising.

What is the most attractive in TokuDB? For me it is compression, but not just compression: TokuDB provides great performance over compressed data.

In my synthetic tests I saw a compression ratio of 10:1 (TokuDB LZMA to InnoDB uncompressed), in the real production data it is less, 6:1, but still impressive.

In our servers we have 4 x SSD Crucial M500 960GB combined in RAID5, which give 2877.0 GB of usable space. With TokuDB we should be able to pack around 15TB of raw data. Of course we can try InnoDB compression, …

MySQL has a nice feature, slow query log, which allows you to log all queries that exceed a predefined about of time to execute. Peter Zaitsev first wrote about this back in 2006 – there have been a few other posts here on the MySQL Performance Blog since then (check this and this, too) but I wanted to revisit his original subject in today’s post.

Query optimization is essential for good database …

I’ve mentioned InfiniDB before in a previous post titled, “Star Schema Bechmark: InfoBright, InfiniDB and LucidDB,” but it’s been 4 years since that was published. Recently I evaluated column-storage solutions for Percona Cloud Tools and took another look at InfiniDB 4. There was the release of version 4, which I think is worth attention.

What is interesting in InfiniDB 4:

• Fully OpenSource, GPLv2. There is no reserved features for Enterprise version
• Multiple CPUs are used even for single query execution
• WINDOW functions in SQL queries

What is WINDOW functions? In short, in regular SQL for a given row you can’t access to previous and …

The Percona Cloud Tools beta service continues to grow its query analysis capabilities with new features for reviewing queries. These enhancements will:

• Provide better visibility into the query performance of your next code deployment
• Introduce query organization tools for efficiency
• Foster better collaboration in teams

Join the hundreds of other users who are using Percona’s MySQL expertise and Percona Cloud Tools to improve the performance of their applications. Of course, it’s free during the beta.

What’s newQuery Review

Query Review gives you the right resources to efficiently review your application’s most important database activities. New tools enable you to assess, categorize, and comment on each of your application’s queries.

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A couple of weeks ago, shortly after Vadim wrote about Percona Cloud Tools and using Slow Query Log to capture the data, Mark Leith asked why don’t we just use Performance Schema instead? This is an interesting question and I think it deserves its own blog post to talk about.

First, I would say main reason for using Slow Query Log is compatibility. Basic Slow query log with microsecond query time precision is available starting in MySQL 5.1, while events_statements_summary_by_digest table was only added in MySQL 5.6 which was out for …

Next week (Wednesday, February 12 at 10 a.m. Pacific) I will host a webinar titled “Analyze MySQL Query Performance with Percona Cloud Tools.” Percona Cloud Tools, currently in beta, reveals new insights about MySQL performance enabling you to improve your database queries and applications. (You can request access to the free beta here).

For webinar attendees, Percona will raffle five (5) 60-minute MySQL query consulting sessions with me to analyze your Percona Cloud Tools query data and provide feedback and performance suggestions. Read below for how to win.

In the webinar I will cover:

• Setting up Percona Cloud Tools Query Analytics
• Deciphering advanced …

Here in Percona Support, we’re receiving several requests per day for help with Percona Cloud Tools installation steps.

So I decided to prepare a step-by-step example of the installation process with some comments based on experience.  Percona Cloud Tools is a hosted service providing access to query performance insights for all MySQL uses. After a brief setup, you’ll unlock new information about your database and how to improve your applications. You can sign up here to request access to the free beta, currently under way.

Some notes

• It’s recommended to do the installation under root.
• If you’re installing pt-agent as root then .pt-agent.conf should be placed in root $HOME
• You could became root …