SEATTLE, WA -- 02/15/08 --
Blue Gecko launched its first open source
product focusing on a core competency
Oracle database
monitoring.
When Blue Gecko began, they relied heavily on free, open-source software
because startups need to conserve cash, and as database administrators they
found most commercial solutions too generic and too difficult to adapt to
specific customer monitoring challenges. The choice to use Nagios as a
monitoring framework was partly because it was freely available, but also
because the monitoring framework was so technology agnostic: "We could
write a plug-in to do anything we wanted and we could monitor anything in a
nice, clean, consistent manner," said founder Chuck Edwards.
Blue Gecko used the early versions of this product in their Oracle hosting
practice and in the monitoring of many remote Oracle administration
clients. Eventually, a product was identified and defined. The decision
to publish Monocle under
GPLv2 evolved out of the early use of open-sourced software. "Open-source
software allowed us to get started rapidly and inexpensively. We wanted to
give back to that community," said Edwards.
Blue Gecko clients have been receiving the rewards of well-monitored
databases for years. Neil Morgan, Director Online Systems at WWF International, said, "With Blue Gecko
and Monocle watching our databases, I don't have to think about them. They
identify potential problems in our databases before we do and more
importantly before our end users do." WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature (also
known as World Wildlife Fund) is a long-standing database-hosting customer
with Blue Gecko.
Monocle is
a monitoring system that can be integrated with multiple alerting
mechanisms by Blue Gecko or
on-site staff. It is self-contained code running within an Oracle database.
These monitors look for and report on various issues that exist in the
monitored database. In the first release there is an included Nagios
plug-in.
Blue Gecko provides database administration support services for Oracle and
MySQL. The Blue Gecko team proactively monitors, administers, and tunes
Oracle and MySQL Server database environments, either on our own Database Hosting
Services platform, or at our Client's site via Remote DBA
Services.
Blue Gecko is a registered trademark and Monocle is a trademark of Blue
Gecko, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
Contact:
Sarah Novotny
206-508-4771
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