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!
percona-agent must be installed and ran as root.
- Download the latest version of percona-agent to your server.
- Extract the tarball.
- Run the
install
script.
- 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.)
- Local or remote access to MySQL
- MySQL user account with
PROCESS
andUSAGE
privileges
/proc
filesystem- Agent running on server
- Agent and MySQL running on the same server
- MySQL user account with
SUPER
andUSAGE
privileges
- Any 32-bit (i386) or 64-bit (x86_64) Linux OS
- MySQL 5.1 through 5.6, any distro
- Amazon RDS (MySQL monitor only)
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.
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).