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Monitoring MySQL Product Options

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I’ve had plenty of comments on specific products to Monitoring MySQL Options before providing the completed list. Here are the results from my survey to give everybody a more complete list.

Nagios 25 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
MONyog 8 xxxxxxxx
Cacti 4 xxxx
Munin 3 xxx
MySQL Enterprise Monitor/Merlin 3 xxx
Hyperic 2 xx
KontrolBase 2 xx
Zabbix 2 xx
Big Brother 1 x
iGlass 1 x
MyDBA 1 x
MySQL AR 1 x
pacemaker 1 x
Panopta 1 x
Opsview 1 x
Monit 1 x
Tivoli 1 x

NOTE: Some answers included multiple products, these are all counted separately in the above figures.

There are a few products that are not listed at Monitoring MySQL in this list.

If you want to list what you use, please continue to use the MySQL Alert Monitoring Survey. Thanks to all those that replied.

Monitoring MySQL options

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My recent poll What alert monitoring do you use? showed 25% of the 58 respondents to bravely state they had no MySQL monitoring. I see 1 in 3, ~33% in my consulting so this is consistent.


There is no excuse to not have some MySQL Monitoring on your production system. At the worse case, you should be logging important MySQL information for later analysis. I use my own Logging and Analyzing scripts on every client for an immediate assessment regardless of what’s available. I combine that with my modified statpack to give me immediate text based analysis, broken down by hour chunks for quick reference. These help me in troubleshooting, but they are not a complete solution.

The most popular options I see and are also reflected in the results are:

There is a good list, including some products I did not know. My goal is to get this information included in the Monitoring-MySQL information site.

I have some additional information on Cacti and MONyog, and I’ll be sharing this information in upcoming posts.