MariaDB Health Checks Plugin Now Available on WordPress.org – WP Tavern

A brand new MariaDB Health Checks plugin is now obtainable on WordPress.org, due to the efforts of contributors concerned within the 2023 CloudFest Hackathon which occurred in Germany. MariaDB is a well-liked open supply database utilized by these seeking to additional scale their web sites, as it’s typically quicker than MySQL with higher assist for a concurrent variety of connections.

“For the time being it seems WordPress is dominating the PHP world, so this appeared to be the right goal,” MariaDB Basis Chief Contributions Officer Andrew Hutchings said about creating the plugin on the hackathon.

“The MariaDB Basis loves WordPress (I’m penning this submit in WordPress proper now) so it appeared like a logical challenge.”

The plugin helps customers debug their MariaDB databases by displaying necessary data, equivalent to logs, locale, connections, character set and collation, and choices. It additionally reveals a graph of the variety of queries and the execution time over the past 24 hours.

The plugin additionally integrates with WordPress’ Website Well being function with two checks: an end-of-life test and a test for whether or not Histograms have been run. Histograms are an optimizer that may assist enhance MariaDB efficiency, and the plugin permits calculation of histograms to run on WordPress tables with the clicking of a button beneath the plugin’s Instruments menu.

“There are a number of options now and it’s a good framework so as to add extra options to in future,” Hutchings mentioned. “It is a group challenge and is open to options and pull requests. It is a challenge that we on the MariaDB Basis need to assist sooner or later.”

MariaDB Well being Checks is developed on GitHub the place builders can observe the plugin’s progress, contribute to new options, and report bugs.