If you have a New Relic Infrastructure Pro license, and unmonitored MySQL servers, there’s now an easy solution at your fingertips. With the New Relic MySQL integration you can monitor and graph almost any detailed metric you could possibly want. New Relic recently unified its analytics tools with New Relic One, a dashboard that provides quick access to all the New Relic tools. With an Infrastructure Pro subscription, you get access to:

• New Relic Infrastructure: Flexible, dynamic monitoring of your entire infrastructure, from services running in the cloud or on dedicated hosts, to containers running in orchestrated environments.
• New Relic Alerts: A flexible, centralized notification system that unlocks the operational potential of New Relic. Alerts is a single tool to manage alert policies and alert conditions for all of your New Relic data.
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Many application developers would know of New Relic. A SaaS performance and monitoring tool targeted towards your web application monitoring including PHP, Ruby, Java, .Net, Python and Node.

With the release today (June 19, 2013) of the New Relic Platform, custom monitoring of data stores including MySQL are now possible. Try it now free. This link will provide you a free standard account (no cost, no billing details necessary), that enables you to perform application monitoring, server monitoring, MySQL instance monitoring and monitoring of many other products via many plugins.

Over the next few posts I will be discussing some of the design decisions I made for this MySQL plugin. New Relic has certain …

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I wrote recently about early detection for MySQL performance problems. If your server is having micro-fluctuations in performance, it’s important to know, because very soon they will turn much worse. What can you do about this?

The most important thing is not to guess at what’s happening, but to measure instead. I have seen these problems from DNS, the binary log, failing hardware, the query cache, the table cache, the thread cache, and a variety of InnoDB edge cases. Guessing at the problem is very dangerous; you need diagnostic data. But it is often quite hard to catch a problem in action when you can only observe it in hindsight, and it happens only for a few seconds once or twice a week. This blog post is about how to detect small variations in performance, especially when it is most difficult to observe them. …

Javier Soltero, former CEO of Hyperic, has maintained that the sale of Hyperic to SpringSource was driven by discussion between himself and SpringSource CEO, Rod Johnson, but the fact that the companies shared investors - Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital - no doubt accelerated the deal (and I wonder whether either could have afforded to acquire the other without shared investors).

When examining the open source vendor landscape it is tempting to imagine that the combined total could be bigger than the sum of its parts - that a combination of many open source product specialists could mount a challenge to Red Hat and Sun to claim the title of biggest open source software vendor.

Benchmark and Accel are among …