End of the week notice to let everyone know that Kontrollbase 2.0.1 revision 206 is now available for download. Effectively the same issues have been addressed as in the previous post about rev-205 but now you don’t have to use subversion as the tar.gz file is available. As usual you can find the download here: [...]

For those of you running the SVN version of Kontrollbase (vs the .tar.gz version) you can download the super awesome new revision 205. This version brings the following changes from the last binary release (194). Keep in mind it also changed the alerts_def table on one of the alert entries. Please apply the sql alter [...]

If you’re running Apple’s OSX 10.5 or possibly lower versions as well you will inevitably notice that the Kontrollbase perl scripts complain about various things that are not an issue on Linux. As follows:

ROOT-(root@g5)-(/private/var/www/html/kontrollbase/bin)-ROOT ROOT-(0)> ./kontroll-query_cache_preload.pl Bareword "O_RDWR" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./kontroll-query_cache_preload.pl line 45. Bareword "O_EXCL" not allowed while "strict subs" in use [...]

If you get the following error on login: “Database write access incorrect. Please check database configuration.” – and let’s say you’ve checked the login and it works just fine. Mass confusion sets in and you start blaming the opensource community for writing bad code and are very annoyed. Don’t get too upset. Chances are you [...]

I’ve tallied up the number of downloads since we migrated to the Google Code repository back in April and am pleased to announce that we have crested 550 downloads from unique client IP addresses. Not bad for a new application that doesn’t advertise aside from RSS syndication to Planet MySQL. I’d like to take the [...]

If you are running Kontrollbase on or against a MySQL 5.1 server please be aware that the alert for “table_cache” will alert incorrectly. This is because table_cache has been removed as a variable in MySQL 5.1 – so don’t worry when you see this alert. We are in the process of removing alert error this [...]

Due to some issues with our hosting provider, the demo server will be offline until otherwise noted.

For anyone running any version of Kontrollbase right now I’d highly recommend downloading this release. There are a lot of bug fixes, especially ones that some very nice users have pointed out during the support process – “nandan_it” and “hipparcos” to mention a few.The biggest changes are the Analytics tab that adds about 99% of [...]

Here is a copy/paste example of the content from the new analytics tab that is in revision-177 of Kontrollbase (downloadable now) – it features as many or more options and analysis than pay-to-use monitoring solutions can offer at the moment and you don’t have to pay a dime. Along with the Analytics tab you also [...]