memcached Stats Dashboard Widget for MT4 (MT Hacks)

memcached Stats Dashboard Widget for MT4

memcached Stats is a plugin for Movable Type 4 (MT4) that provides a admin dashboard widget that displays stats for each of the memcached servers in your MT config.

memcached is an optional advanced feature with MT4. You can read more about memcached here, and about using MT with memcached here. In short, memcached is a caching system that caches data in memory. When configured for MT4, Movable Type will store numerous items in the cache to reduce the number of database queries and improve performance. To use memcached, your probably need a dedicated server with root access, as you have to compile and install several libraries. I installed it earlier today with help of this tutorial.

How it Works

The memcached Stats dashboard widget will display key statistics for each of your memcached servers. It looks like this:

As the example above shows, the widget will display a warning message when memcached is not returning stats for a particular server. This could mean that the memcached process or server has gone down, or that the server is unreachable.

Requirements

MT4+
Memcached (plus its dependancies)
Cache::Memcached perl module

Installation

Download and extract the the contents of the zip file and uploads the contents of the 'plugins' folder to the 'plugins' directory of MT.
Login to MT and go to your Dashboard. On the lower right side of the page you should see a "Select a Widget..." drop down box. Select "Memcached Stats" and click "Go". (Note that only system administrators have permissions to add this widget. Other users won't see this widget in the list)

Get Memcached Stats

Memcached Stats requires the purchase of a commercial license.

Commercial License - $97

Want More Stats?

The memached Stats widget displays only a handful of useful stats, as shown in the image above. There are more stats available, that could be added to the widget in future. A list can be found near the bottom of this page, in the "General-purpose statistics" section. If you see some useful stats that are missing from the widget, please let me know and I will add them.

As always, feedback and suggestions are appreciated.

Comments (17)

دردشة صوتية:

MTOSOnce again Tim writesدردشة great write upصوتية

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a great write up and summary of some news that was recently shared with the community in today's ProNet conference

Posted by دردشة صوتية | April 8, 2009 1:16 PM

Posted on April 8, 2009 13:16

دردشة:

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Posted by دردشة | August 3, 2009 10:05 PM

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دردشة الشلة:

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Posted by دردشة الشلة | August 3, 2009 10:06 PM

Posted on August 3, 2009 22:06

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Posted by شات | December 2, 2009 10:26 PM

Posted on December 2, 2009 22:26

مركز تحميل:

Posted by مركز تحميل | August 9, 2010 12:25 AM

Posted on August 9, 2010 00:25

دردشه:

would be upgraded for 4.1?111

Notice that this example is a little different. Because the MTInclude tag is inside the MTComments container, which is repeated for every comment, we can't use the same cache key for every comment

Posted by دردشه | September 24, 2010 5:12 PM

Posted on September 24, 2010 17:12

شات وناسه دردشة وناسه:

I had a FF comment imported successfully but when I tried to add in the code snippet above to place the FF icon before the author's name, I ended up getting

Posted by شات وناسه دردشة وناسه | October 23, 2010 3:12 AM

Posted on October 23, 2010 03:12

شات صوتي:

E eu tenho certeza que tem tofu aqui :(

Posted by شات صوتي | February 27, 2011 4:58 AM

Posted on February 27, 2011 04:58

Posted by دردشة صوتية | February 27, 2011 5:00 AM

Posted on February 27, 2011 05:00

حسايف:

Posted by حسايف | February 27, 2011 5:01 AM

Posted on February 27, 2011 05:01

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