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 :
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.
This problem is now fixed and I’m proud to announce that the Pinba storage engine version 1.0.0 is now compatible with Dotdeb’s MySQL 5.5 packages. Just install the pinba-mysql-5.5 package and add the following line to your MySQL configuration file :
plugin-load=libpinba_engine.so
About the PHP extensions, they will be updated from version 0.0.6 to version 1.0.0 with the upcoming PHP 5.4.6 and 5.3.16 packages.
Please visit the Pinba website fore more info (changes, installation, support…).
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.
With Pinba extension users also can measure particular parts of the code using timers with arbitrary tags.
Pinba is not a debugging tool in a common sense, since you’re not supposed to do debugging on production servers, but its main goal is to help developers to monitor performance of PHP scripts, locate bottlenecks in realtime and direct developers’ attention to the code that really needs it.
Here is a sample graph :
I’m proud to announce that Pinba is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”. Once you read the Pinba features and usage, you’ll want to install those two packages :
I hope you enjoy it.