May 2025 at Releem: Configuration History for MySQL & MariaDB
June 24, 2025 • WRITTEN BY ROMAN AGABEKOV
We've been busy behind the scenes improving Releem to give you a more intuitive experience and better visibility into your database performance and security. This month, we’re excited to roll out a refreshed dashboard design and several new features aimed at making your job easier and your databases even more secure.
Updates to Releem Dashboard
Redesigned Dashboard
We’ve revamped the dashboard to give you a clearer view of your Releem Score, health check statuses, and security check results. Our goal here is to offer a more streamlined and user-friendly experience.
We’ve revamped the dashboard to give you a clearer view of your Releem Score, health check statuses, and security check results. Our goal here is to offer a more streamlined and user-friendly experience.
Configuration History
A highly requested feature, Configuration History allows you to track performance changes across different MySQL configurations. You can now easily see how adjustments affect latency and other key metrics, helping you make more informed decisions about your database tuning.
A highly requested feature, Configuration History allows you to track performance changes across different MySQL configurations. You can now easily see how adjustments affect latency and other key metrics, helping you make more informed decisions about your database tuning.
Enhanced Security Checks
We’ve redesigned security checks and added several new security checks to bolster your database’s defenses, including protection against anonymous users, blank passwords, username-as-passwords, and remote root logins. After releasing these changes, we saw a 3x increase in usage, showing how valuable these features are to you! You can read more about these security checks in our MySQL Security Checks article (Sections 8-11).
We’ve redesigned security checks and added several new security checks to bolster your database’s defenses, including protection against anonymous users, blank passwords, username-as-passwords, and remote root logins. After releasing these changes, we saw a 3x increase in usage, showing how valuable these features are to you! You can read more about these security checks in our MySQL Security Checks article (Sections 8-11).
Added MySQL Variables Type
To make it even easier to manage your configurations, we’ve added an indicator for MySQL variables (dynamic or static) to let you know if a restart is required to apply your changes (Closed #385).
To make it even easier to manage your configurations, we’ve added an indicator for MySQL variables (dynamic or static) to let you know if a restart is required to apply your changes (Closed #385).
Updates to Releem Platform
Query Optimization Improvements
Releem now automatically detects recommended indexes, even if they’ve been created with names different from those suggested.
Releem now automatically detects recommended indexes, even if they’ve been created with names different from those suggested.
Updates to Releem Agent
Security Check Information
We’ve updated Releem Agent to collect data on the new security checks we’ve rolled out. This means you get real-time visibility into issues like anonymous users, blank passwords, and more. For full details on these checks, visit our MySQL Security Checks blog (Sections 8-11).
We’ve updated Releem Agent to collect data on the new security checks we’ve rolled out. This means you get real-time visibility into issues like anonymous users, blank passwords, and more. For full details on these checks, visit our MySQL Security Checks blog (Sections 8-11).
News You Might Have Missed
We’re excited to share a recent article by renowned Java Champion Vlad Mihalcea. He talks about his experience with Releem and how it can be used to investigate performance issues and improve queries for a Spring application. Read Vlad’s article here.
Community Contributions
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- Founder & CEORoman Agabekov has 17 years of experience managing and optimizing MySQL and MariaDB in high-load environments. He created Releem to automate routine tasks like performance monitoring, tuning, and query optimization. His articles share practical insights to help others maintain and improve their MySQL databases.