Important notice: With this release, we have changed the registration keys. As usual, the new keys are available for registered users from our Customer Portal.

Monyog MySQL Monitor v8.4.0 adds more alert and logging options and enhances the MONyog API. Further, we redesigned the settings page and a number of bugs were fixed.

Changes as compared to Monyog MySQL Monitor v8.3.2 include: Features:

Added more notification channels (Slack and Pagerduty) for Monyog alerts. (Read more) Option to write Monyog alerts in the Syslog of the machine where Monyog is installed. This option is only available for Linux. Option to edit the subject line for Monyog alerts. Added MONyog API to disable notification for a monitor based on a server/tag. ( …

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It was spring 2010 when we decided that even though Softlayer‘s server provisioning system is really great and it takes only a few hours to get a new server when we need it, it is still too long sometimes. We wanted to be able to scale up when needed and do it faster. It was especially critical because we were working hard on bringing up Facebook integration to our site and that project could have dramatically changed our application servers cloud capacity requirements.

What buzzword comes to your mind when we talk about scaling up really fast, sometimes within minutes, not hours or days? Exactly – cloud computing! So, after some initial testing and playing around with Softlayer’s (really young back then) cloud solution …

If you start with the d6 build, you probably have ourdelta.org in your repo files rather than mirror.ourdelta.org. Since we moved to using download mirrors, you need to update your repo config files. There are redirects in place for download users, but yum/apt-get generally don’t like redirects. For details on what your config should now look like, just take a peek at the information for each distro we currently support:

• RHEL/CentOS (4 & 5)
• Debian (4.0 Etch)
• Ubuntu (8.04 LTS Hardy, 8.10 Intrepid)

Once you’ve fixed this up, updates should be painless in the future (i.e., updating to the current d7 …

Alrighty, my mistake. In the setup of the mirror infrastructure, I stuffed up the server alias logic so that some yum and apt-get requests will be failing at the moment (specifically on the us mirrors). The uk mirror should be ok. Either temporarily override your config for the uk mirror, or wait a few hours as things gets sorted on those systems. Sorry!

Update: all fixed now - and it seems the mirror people are smarter than I anyway

We’ll get some testing and monitoring in place for this kind of thing, it’s obviously very tricky to spot such problems otherwise.