My Talk about Monitoring MySQL as a component in your environment in the MySQL Devroom at Fosdem 2009

1. Monitoring MySQL the open source way

3. Linux since 0.98

4. OpenMosix, openQRM, ...

5. Early Adopter (Xen, MySQL Cluster)

6. Automating Large Scale Deployment , High Availability

7. Surviving the 10 th floor test

8. http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/

9. http://www.virtualization.com/

11. 2008 OLS Talk/Study about Monitoring in General

12. Beyond Geert's Nagiostalk :)

13. 2009 Refocus Study on MySQL

14. DBA vs Devministrator

18. Monitoring MySQL With commercial tools

19. A zillion standalone MySQL tools compared

20. The solution to all your problems

22. Or Crashing at a party ?

23. Did something happen to them ?

24. How long have they been gone already ?

25. Why are there cops at your front door ?

27. You can't afford to be slow

28. Systems grow and scale beyond manual/human capacity

29. Plan for growth

30. Good admins know how their systems behave

31. And what's abnormal systems behaviour

34. Status File

35. Agent

36. SNMP

38. Based on service

40. SLA

42. Since

43. Graphical Overview

44. Summary

45. Lies, damn lies and statistics

47. A Visionary approach

48. Find Anomalies

49. Plan for Growth

51. More detailed information

55. By Sniffing Queries

56. On the Host

57. On a “modified” mysqld

59. Autodetection

60. Supporting Gui

61. Automatable

62. Consistent

63. SNMP Integration

65. Templates

66. Non Intrusive

67. Plenty of notification

68. Active community

69. Hackable

71. Select

72. Update

75. Slow Queries

76. Cache hit Ratio

77. Data Length

78. Idx Length

79. Nr Rows

80. Nr Threads

83. Trends

84. Find the Real Cause

86. MyTop

87. Innotop

88. Monolith

89. MonYOG

90. mtop

91. mysqlreport

92. Mysqlsla

96. Zabbix

97. Zenoss

98. OpenNMS

99. Nagios

100. GroundWorks

101. Hobbit

102. ...

104. Setup Different Tools/Platforms

105. Initial Feeling

106. Installation Experience

108. Hyperic HQ Open Source

109. Zabbix

110. Zenoss Core

112. A zillion tools based on it

113. Awkward config for the newbie

114. Very configurable

115. Very Pluggable

116. Great ecosystem

117. Often integrated with Cacti

120. Nagios Stats

124. No Default mysql support

126. Giant Community (nagiosexchange, ...) to choose from :)

128. Performance

129. Events handling

131. SNMP for Autodetection

132. Based on standard protocols

133. Open Core

136. Historical data : RRD

137. Events : MySQL

140. Nagios plugins

141. Custom commands

142. ZenPacks: User commands, Perf templates, Graphs ...

144. Nagios Plugins can be used

146. Select Statistics (Scan, Range Check, Range Join, Full Join)

147. Handler Statistics (Keyed & Unkeyed Reads, Writes, Updates, Deletes)

148. Network Traffic (Received & Sent)

149. Zenoss MySQLMonitor ZenPack

150. Zenoss MySQLMonitor ZenPack

153. MySQL Zenpack

155. Agent Based (Heavy)

156. Java

157. Autodiscovery (of services)

158. SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter)

161. Focus on State

164. Focusses strongly on application/db/ performance

165. Grouping of servers/services

166. Very nice Dashboard!

169. Deployed WARS

170. Hyperic Inside the Apps

171. Hyperic Inside the Apps

172. Hyperic Inside the Apps

173. Hyperic Inside the Apps

175. Lots of NTH features in Commercial Version

177. “ Low” on java-memory, very responsive webfrontend, not 'sluggish' at all

178. Goes DEEP Inside the Application

179. MySQL / PgSQL out of the Box

182. Database + Daemon

185. “Auto detects” agents

186. Create your own screens

188. Agent (availability of params depending OS)

189. SNMP

191. Internal checks

192. Aggregated checks

195. Correlation of different graphs

197. Needs uncommenting ### Set of parameter for monitoring MySQL server (v3.23.42 and later) ### Change -u<username> and add -p<password> if required UserParameter=mysql.ping,mysqladmin -uroot ping|grep alive|wc -l UserParameter=mysql.uptime,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f2 -d&quot;:&quot;|cut -f1 -d&quot;T&quot; UserParameter=mysql.threads,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f3 -d&quot;:&quot;|cut -f1 -d&quot;Q&quot; UserParameter=mysql.questions,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f4 -d&quot;:&quot;|cut -f1 -d&quot; S&quot; UserParameter=mysql.slowqueries,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f5 -d&quot;:&quot;|cut -f1 -d&quot;O&quot; UserParameter=mysql.qps,mysqladmin -uroot status|cut -f9 -d&quot;:&quot; UserParameter=mysql.version,mysql -V

199. Sends those checks to Zabbix

202. Zabbix MySQL

203. Zabbix MySQL

204. Zabbix MySQL

207. Fully Integrated

208. Screens : Correlation of graphs

211. Hyperic

212. ` Kris Buytaert < [email_address] > Further Reading http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/ http://www.inuits.be/ http://www.virtualization.com/ http://www.oreillygmt.com/ ? !