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• innotop

Projektgeschichte

The program source records copyright from 2006 by Baron Schwartz and later maintainers Kenny Gryp and Frederic Descamps from 2013. The README notes that the full project history was imported into GitHub and that the manual is embedded in the program as Perl POD.

The changelog shows the project maturing rapidly during the MySQL 5 era: adding plugin functionality, group-by behavior, richer filtering and sorting, central and per-user configuration files, command-line DSN handling, query dashboards, Percona/MariaDB user statistics, and later compatibility work for MySQL 8, MySQL 9, SSL, Group Replication, and changed replication terminology.

Adoptionsgeschichte

innotop was packaged by Unix distributions early. Its INSTALL file lists FreeBSD, Gentoo, Ubuntu/Debian, and RPM packages via openSUSE Build Service, while Homebrew metadata lists additional Fedora and openSUSE packaging. The package persisted because database operators wanted a fast terminal view into MySQL and InnoDB behavior.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `innotop` in a terminal to inspect MySQL queries, transactions, locks, replication, and server health. Connection details can come from command-line DSNs, MySQL option files, prompts, or saved innotop configuration, with credentials potentially stored in the same config paths curated for this package.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

innotop is a classic ops package: a single Perl program with embedded documentation, DBI/DBD::mysql dependencies, and a long compatibility tail across MySQL, Percona Server, and MariaDB. Its history captures the era when terminal dashboards were the lightest viable database observability stack.

Zeitleiste

• 2006: Program source records original copyright by Baron Schwartz.
• 2007: Version 1.5 adds plugin functionality, group-by behavior, and configuration directory changes.
• 2009: Version 1.7 adds central config support and the default `~/.innotop/innotop.conf` path.
• 2010: Version 1.8 adds Percona/MariaDB USER_STATISTICS support and query summaries.
• 2018: Version 1.12 adds MySQL 8.0 support.
• 2021: Version 1.13 adds SSL support.
• 2024: Version 1.15 adds Group Replication and new replication terminology support.
• 2026: Version 1.16 reworks query EXPLAIN compatibility for modern MySQL.

Related projects

• Related projects and technologies include MySQL, InnoDB, MariaDB, Percona Server, Perl DBI and DBD::mysql, MySQL option files, and the Unix `top` interface tradition.

Quellen

• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/innotop
• https://github.com/innotop/innotop
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/innotop/innotop/master/Changelog
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/innotop/innotop/master/INSTALL
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/innotop/innotop/master/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/innotop/innotop/master/innotop