percona-agent

percona/percona-agent

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

Quick Install

percona-agent must be installed and ran as root.

1. Download the latest version of percona-agent to your server.
2. Extract the tarball.
3. Run the install script.

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

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

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 (MySQL monitor only)

Upgrading from pt-agent

If you're already using Percona Cloud Tools by running pt-agent, the percona-agent installer will automatically detect, upgrade, and remove pt-agent. percona-agent does everything pt-agent does and a lot more.

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, email us at cloud-tools at our domain (percona.com).