The Releem Blog

Hi! We're building an easy-to-use MySQL Monitoring and Tuning tool. You can read about our journey along the way on this blog.

We are proud to announce the launch of the Query Analytics! This new feature helps you quickly identify slow queries and those that demand significant system resources.

CPU usage in MySQL refers to the proportion of a computer's processor resources that the MySQL server utilizes to execute operations, including processing queries, managing database transactions, and maintaining the database system.

See what's new in Releem in February 2024. ✨ We're thrilled to share that, based on our recent survey, a majority of our customers have expressed immense satisfaction with Releem's capability for automatic detection of performance issues and offering actionable recommendations for improvement.

See what's new in Releem in January 2024. ✨ At Releem, our mission revolves around simplicity and efficacy. We're dedicated to offering you a tool that not only achieves outstanding results but does so with minimal complexity.

Releem utilized MySQL for storing all metrics. However, as our service grew, the sheer volume of metrics we needed to analyze and store presented a formidable challenge that led us to migrate from MySQL to ClickHouse. This article delves into the details of that migration.

See Releem results and Improvements in 2023 ✨ This year has been a testament to our dedication and expertise in enhancing database performance.

The article for engineers on how to Keep an Eye on MySQL with Health Checks

See what's new in Releem in November 2023. ✨ This month we’ve just rolled out a feature where Releem can zap configuration tasks straight to the Releem Agent. What this means for you: new configurations are just a click away, no more messing around with server connections or manual scripts.

See what's new in Releem in October 2023. ✨ Our dedication is paying off – in the past two months, we've witnessed a significant uptick in the popularity our services. Several hosting companies have integrated Releem on a large scale, adding hundreds of servers.

Navigating the intricacies of database performance can be challenging, but understanding key metrics like latency is crucial. As businesses increasingly rely on data-driven insights, ensuring that databases respond swiftly and efficiently becomes paramount.

See what's new in Releem in September 2023. ✨ Crafted with simplicity and efficiency in mind – Releem is built to enhance your database performance, regardless of its location – be it on a server or in the cloud.

See what's new in Releem in August 2023. ✨ In August, we ironed out bugs for a smoother experience, optimized our backend for greater stability, and updated our documentation for easier navigation.

See what's new in Releem in July 2023. ✨ We made a number of improvements and fixes in July that were suggested by our dedicated users.

This comprehensive guide walks through eight critical steps for effective MySQL tuning that can help improve MySQL performance.

See what's new in Releem in June 2023. ✨ We're thrilled to introduce new enhancements to the Releem platform for June.

See what's new in Releem in May 2023. ✨ We're excited to unveil this month's Releem product updates, packed with enhancements and features designed to make your experience even more seamless and enjoyable.

See what's new in Releem in March 2023. ✨ We're excited to unveil this month's Releem product updates, packed with enhancements and features designed to make your experience even more seamless and enjoyable.

Our latest product update for February is packed with exciting new features to make managing your MySQL database easier than ever.

We are thrilled to announce the January 2023 product updates for Releem. Our team has been hard at work to bring you the latest and greatest features to help optimize your servers.

Research on how MySQL tuning positively affects the performance of popular open-source web applications: Drupal, Laravel, WordPress

2022 Recap! The year 2022 has been a significant turning point for Releem. We developed a user-friendly tool for monitoring and optimizing MySQL performance, starting with a basic bash script and evolving into the advanced tool that it is today.

This month we’ve made significant changes to Releem Customer Portal and received a lot of positive feedback from customers.

This month we redesigned key parts of Releem. We started with the Releem Customer Portal landing page and ‘Add server’ page before moving on to completely rebuild Releem Agent in the Go programming language.

For the month of September, we focused on adding support for the queries per second or QPS metric. We needed to make various changes to Releem Agent, Cloud Platform, and Customer Portal to make this a reality.

See what's new in Releem in August 2022. ✨ For the month of August, we’re most excited to announce our new one-step command for applying configuration recommendations.

See what's new in Releem in July 2022. ✨ We added support for FreeBSD and have already moved to support the newest MySQL 8.0.30 update released on July 26th, 2022. 

See what's new in Releem and what we're gradually rolling out and how we improved the Performance of Releem in June 2022. ✨

See what's new in Releem and what we're gradually rolling out in May 2022. ✨

See what's new in Releem and what we're gradually rolling out in April 2022. ✨

See what's new in Releem and what we're gradually rolling out in March 2022. ✨

See what's new in Releem and what we're gradually rolling out in February 2022. ✨

See what's new in Releem and what we're gradually rolling out in January 2022. ✨

See what's new in Releem and what we're gradually rolling out in October. ✨

See what's new in Releem and what we're gradually rolling out. ✨

We conducted a survey of several hundreds software engineers who have experience in manage servers with installed MySQL / MariaDB / Percona

Research on how MySQL tuning positively affects the performance of popular open-source web applications

What do Database Administrators do and are they necessary?

In this article, we benchmark the performance of MySQL 5.7 default configuration against the configuration recommended by Releem.