It's all about: Whats happening inside the DBMS...
- What SQL statements are currently beeing executed in the DBMS
- How much CPU is the DBMS consuming for the moment
- What tables are the most accessed ones
- What tables do I have locking conficts on
- What is a specific spid/user doing for the moment
- What is the DBMS waiting for
- And why not:
- Send Alarms/Alerts when specific thresholds are crossed
- Record everything and view data at a later time
This is exactly what DbxTune does for you...
Various monitoring tables are great, but it's so hard too see what's changed!
DbxTune work out the difference from privious sample, which make the counter data readable!
So: DbxTune is a collection of programs to Tune/Monitor various DBMS dialects.
The project started out as AseMon, which later was renamed to AseTune.
ASE due to the fact that the tool only could talk to Sybase/SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise
Then I decided to extend the tool to embrace other DBMS types as well!
Hence the recent change to DbxTune
There are a couple of ways you can use the DbxTune tool set
- GUI mode: view what's happening in the server right now (simple and easy)
Note: you can set up a in memory window so you can go back and view details from any Collector tab - GUI mode: Same as above. But at the same time: record everything that you see in the GUI to a recording database
Note: if you just want to record an hour at night time: Simply tell it to record between 03:00 - 04:00 - NO GUI mode: If you want DbxTune to constantly collect data and store it in a recording database, which you can view when someone comes and ask you: "What's happening in the system, it's much slower now than a week ago... Whats' the problem?"
- GUI mode: View/replay any recording you have done previously (in GUI mode, or NO-GUI mode)
Instead of connecting to a live DBMS, you just connect to the recorded offline database, then click on a timeline to position yourself within the recording to view all the details that was recorded. - DbxCentral: Have a dashboard on the TV so that anybody can view the Performance Trend Graphs.
And also make sure to record the activity in the test/development environments so that the developers can see that changes they make in the system has a positive or a negative effect on CPU Usage and/or Disk IO usage! - Alarm(s): If you now have decide to recording performance data all the time, you can simply add thresholds to various metrics, and send an alarm when they are crossed!
- Daily Summary Reports: See the top consuming SQL Statements or components from each of the DbxTune Collectors (sent by mail every midnight).
I was working for Sybase and SAP for 21 years (from 1994 to end-of 2015), as a consultant...
One of my specialties was Performance & Tuning work, and Sybase didn't have any good tools for digging into the various Performance Counters (and also record a session that could be investigated on later), so I created my own tool (AseTune) to be able to perform my duties at customer sites.
I left SAP 2015/2016, and worked as a consultant for B3 Consulting Group - https://b3.se
I left B3 2022, and now I work as a consultant for Execute IT - https://executeit.se So if you are looking for help... I can help you... Contact me at: goran_schwarz@hotmail.com
All the below tools need enhancements, please let me know what, and how you can contribute with ideas and/or code :)
| Name | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| AseTune | Excellent | Tune Sybase/SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise |
| IqTune | Good | Tune Sybase/SAP IQ - The Column Store database |
| SqlServerTune | Good | Tune Microsoft SQL-Server |
| PostgresTune | Good | Tune Postgres DBMS |
| MySqlTune | Needs Improvements | Tune MySQL DBMS (5.7 and later) |
| OracleTune | Initial State | Tune Oracle DBMS |
| DB2Tune | Initial State | Tune DB2 LUW DBMS (LUW = Linux Unix Windows, mainframe is not supported) |
| RaxTune | Good | Tune Sybase/SAP Replication Agent X (not a DBMS, but still possible to capture statistics) |
| RsTune | Good | Tune Sybase/SAP Replication Server (not a DBMS, but still possible to capture statistics) |
| HanaTune | Needs Improvements | Tune SAP HANA - The In-Memory combined Column/Row Store database |
| Name | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DbxCentral | Good | A WebServer that handles centralized metrics if/when you use NO-GUI collectors (see below for more info) |
| SQL Window | Good | Simple Query tool, connect to all of the above server types and execute commands (and any JDBC compliant DBMS) |
| Tail Window | Good | Tail any file, if the file is located on Unix/Linux, simply open a SSH connection for the tail. |
| PerfDemo | Beta | A tool that can be used to stress load ASE - used for demo purposes of AseTune |
A centralized web service
The idea behind this centralized server is that we are collecting summary information from any or all collectors in a central database, from there we can view trend-graphs via a web browser.
The central database will contain less information than the individual offline databases, where the collectors saved the data.
Therefor overview information can be saved for a longer time period...
In other words: the central database only holds data for trend graphs, while the individual collector databases contains all sampled details, and therefor are much bigger.
The central web server also pushes out chart/graph data to web browsers, which makes
it possible to have a live dashboard (without having to refresh the browser all the time).
If you are not happy with the dashboard and you want to create your own layout.
You can for example use Grafana or some other tool to display the metrics data stored in the central database.
If we need to view any details from a recording. Then we just start the native DbxTune application and connect to the offline database. So the central server is just to view trends of how the system is working.
For setup/installation: README_dbxcentral_install.txt
For a big picture look at the file: doc/dbxtune-central.pptx
If you want a preview how the DbxCentral looks like, you can check out http://gorans.org:8080 which is my test environment! You wont be able to see any traffic here, the DBMS instances are just idling, but hopefully you get the idea of how your system will look like...
Note: Please be gentle with the system :)
Here is a picture that tries to describe how Collectors, DbxCentral & Recording Databases fits together...
In the above example/picture (every square box is a virtual or physical machine)
- On top you have 6 different machines, running different DBMS Vendors, which runs un touched (no DbxTune software is installed)
- In Center; the whole DbxTune infrastructure is running on a Virtual Machine (for simplicity of upgrades and managability, which also makes it easy to remove the whole DbxTune infrastructure if you need or want to)
- The DbxCentral Server is at the bottom of the image; With one database to store trend graphs for X days (12 months be default)
- And 6 different DbxTune Collectors, which stores Detailed Recordings... One recording database for each day (makes it simple to purge old recordings when we need space for never ones)
- Each of the DbxTune Collectors also sends trend graph information (in JSON format) to DbxCentral (which is stored for a longer time than the above detailed recodings)
- The following can also be enabled:
- Any of the DbxTune Collectors may send Alarms via (email, SMS, Slack or REST interface to unknown)
- Daily Summary Reports can also be enabled, so you can see the top consuming SQL Statements or components from each of the collectors.
- On the Right hand side, you have:
- WEB Browsers connecting to DbxCentral to view various trend graph information, or checking active alarms
- DbxTune Native GUI Clients (running on your local machine: Windows, Mac or Linux), which can:
- Connect to older recordings stored on the DbxCentral host; to view detailes of any recording
- Or Connect to any DBMS system (on the top) to monitor live data (just as you have done previously without the DbxCentral and NO-GUI Collectors)
- I just downloaded it and started randomly pointing and clicking, but the ease of use and the amount of data that is available is really impressive.
- This new version is a great piece of work. Thank you! Mr. Schwarz. I was immediately able to see poorly-performing queries on our production box and figure out what indices needed to be added, including creating covering indices. If you administer ASE, you need this. Period.
- After using Sybase ASE for a quarter century and writing a million dumb scripts to try and sus out perf data, AseTune is revolutionary. I am in awe of what you've done here, and I hope I can convince my employer they ought to contribute.
- Excellent tool; good alternative to Asemon as no intermediate server is required and can also be used in batch mode. Thanks for this good work
- works perfectly.
for more details see: https://sourceforge.net/projects/asetune/reviews
- Java 8 and above
Well there is not really an installer, just follow these simple steps
- unpack the ZIP in some directory
- start any of the tools (files are located in the 'bin' directory)
- windows: start the BAT file (xxxTune.bat)
- Linux/Unix/Mac: start the SH file (xxxTune.sh)
Note: first have to change the shell scripts to be executable:chmod 755 bin/*.sh
- Connect to any server you want to tune/monitor
If you want to setup DbxCentral - The central Web Console to view Trend graphs
See: README_dbxcentral_install.txt
- GPL v3 (see
doc/COPYINGorLICENSE.txt) - For commercial licenses, contact me, at: goran_schwarz@hotmail.com
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Here are some of the functionality
- Code completion Ctrl+space
- Command history
- Execute favorite commands (added by the user)
- A bunch of predefined SQL Shortcut commands
- Tail the Server error log (done via SSH if it's not located on your box)
- View Server configurations (show all, or just the changed ones)
- View JDBC MetaData structures
- Etc, etc...
Tail any file, if it's a remote file it uses SSH to do the "remote" tail.
It has a remote "file view" to select files on the remote server
Small utility to execute load in a ASE
This utility is mainly used by me when doing demos of AseTune...
If you want to use it, you need to install some server side objects.
- Unzip
lib/asetune.jarand go to directorysrc/com/asetune/perftest/sql - Look at the
README.txtin above directory - if you have problems, please send me an email at: goran_schwarz@hotmail.com