Monitoring

Zabbix 2.0.5 has been released today, bringing new minor features and bug fixes (take a look at the Zabbix 2.0.5 release notes for more info). The packages are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures.

The packages of MySQL 5.5.28 are now available for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. They fixes some InnoDB-, partition- and replication-related issues. The Pinba engine has also been rebuilt to be used with the new version. As usual, please read carefully the full Changelog before upgrading.

I already talked about Pinba, this great Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tool that is made of : a MySQL storage engine ( pinba-mysql-5.5), a PHP extension ( php5-pinba), and even a python module, pynba, (thanks to my IsCool Entertainment friends) and an experimental Nginx module. But since MySQL 5.1 support has been discontinued on Dotdeb, it was impossible to install the Pinba MySQL storage engine, just because it depended on a non-existant MySQL 5.1 version. ...

Do you know Pinba? It’s a great tool and you really should use it on your LAMP platform. Pinba is a realtime monitoring/statistics server for PHP using MySQL as a read-only interface. It accumulates and processes data sent over UDP by multiple PHP processes and displays statistics in a nice human-readable form of simple " reports", also providing read-only interface to the raw data in order to make possible generation of more sophisticated reports and stats. ...