percona-agent

README

percona/percona-agent

• About
• Quick Install
• Updating the Agent
• System Requirements
  • MySQL monitor
  • Server monitor
  • Query Analytics for Slow Log
  • Query Analytics for Performance Schema
• Supported Platforms and Versions
• Help and Support

About

This is percona-agent for Percona Cloud Tools. It's a real-time client-side agent written in Go which implements the various services provided by Percona Cloud Tools (PCT). You need a PCT account to install and use the agent. Sign up for free!

Quick Install

1. Get your API key.
2. Run in terminal as root:

curl -s https://cloud.percona.com/install | bash /dev/stdin -api-key="<API key>"

More about Quick Install and other installation options can be found in the Installation Guide.

Updating the Agent

Just use the same command as for Quick Install when new version is available, so:

1. Get your API key.
2. Run in terminal as root:

curl -s https://cloud.percona.com/install | bash /dev/stdin -api-key="<API key>"

System Requirements

• Linux OS
• root access
• Outbound network access to *.percona.com, ports 80 and 443
• MySQL 5.1 or newer, any distro (Percona Server, MariaDB, etc.)

MySQL monitor

• Local or remote access to MySQL
• MySQL user account with PROCESS and USAGE privileges

Server monitor

• /proc filesystem
• Agent running on server

Query Analytics for Slow Log

• Agent and MySQL running on the same server
• MySQL user account with SUPER, USAGE, and SELECT privileges

Query Analytics for Performance Schema

• MySQL 5.6 or newer, any distro, including Amazon RDS
• MySQL user account with SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE and DROP privileges on performance_schema

Supported Platforms and Versions

• Any 32-bit (i386) or 64-bit (x86_64) Linux OS
• MySQL 5.1 through 5.6, any distro
• Amazon RDS (only MySQL monitor and Query Analytics for Performance Schema)

Help and Support

If you're a Percona Support customer, get help through the Percona Customer Portal.

For bugs, please create an issue at https://jira.percona.com.

For everything else, please ask, share, and help others on the Percona Cloud Tools Community Forum.