On January 9^th FromDual launched its Monitoring as a Service (MaaS) solution for MySQL.
This service is based on the Performance Monitor for MySQL (mpm) v0.8 and Zabbix.

On December 2^nd 2011 FromDual released the new version v0.7.2 of its Performance Monitor for MySQL. The new version can be downloaded from here.

The Performance Monitor for MySQL is an agent which is hooked into the agent of the well known Monitoring solution called Zabbix. Zabbix is an integrated Enterprise Monitoring solution which can produce performance graphs and alerting.

The changes in the new release are:

New functionality

Dear MySQL and MariaDB User,

With this Newsletter you receive the News about FromDual for Summer 2011.

From August 15^th to 17^th FromDual will have an Advanced MySQL Developer Workshop with Citrus in Helsinki (Finland). The workshop will be held in English. The workshop topics you can find here and the registration form is available here.

FromDual has released today the next version v0.6 of its FromDual Performance Monitor for MySQL.

The most important improvement of the new release is the new monitoring module for DRBD devices which are often used in MySQL High Availability (HA) set-ups.

From the Cooperation of these two companies arises the biggest independent service provider for MySQL and MariaDB in Europe.

Hamburg, Uster -- February 28, 2011 - The Hamburg based PrimeBase Technologies and the near Zürich located FromDual are forming a Cooperation for MySQL products and services, starting March 1st, 2011.

This Cooperation enables both companies to offer a complete set of services for all MySQL and MariaDB customers.

The customers of both parties now have he possibility to demand a 24x7 support service from their provider.

FromDual releases its new version v0.5 of its MySQL Performance Monitor working with Zabbix.

What has changed so far in this release:

• Recommended Location has changed to /usr/local
• FromDual agent log files are rotated now.
• There are now 2 different packages: One for the Agent and one for the Templates.
• Some of the graphs were improved.
• Missing status and system variable information were added and some were fixed.
• Verbosity of logging information was adjusted.

With one of its partners FromDual plans to offer an Advanced MySQL DBA Workshop. The first workshop should run in November 2010.

To offer the best possible contents to the participants we want your feedback about the proposed topics, about the missing topics and what you think in general about such a workshop.

Please let us know your opinion. Either as comment on our web-site or for our eyes only at Feedback.

Thank you for your participation.

FromDual launches its database Performance Monitoring solution for MySQL / MariaDB. This solution provides monitoring capabilities for most MySQL Storage Engines (Aria, InnoDB, MyISAM, NDB, PBXT and XtraDB). Further you can monitor MySQL Master - Slave replication set-ups, UNIX processes (mysqld, ndbd) and MySQL/MariaDB specific information.

Henrik Ingo from the Open Database Alliance (ODBA) did an interview with Oli Sennhauser of FromDual about the European MySQL database landscape and its future.

Uster, Switzerland -- April 26, 2010 -- FromDual has signed the Service Provider Partnership Agreement of the Open Database Alliance (ODBA).

FromDual is the first official ODBA consulting partner in Europe. The growing number of downloads and use of MariaDB, an improved and enhanced derivation of the MySQL database, also requires consultancy services for MariaDB in Europe.

Our presentation "MySQL, where are you going?" of March 25 at the OpenExpo in Bern is now available in German and English.

When you have missed it, you can download it now from here...

The video recording should be available as well soon.