MySQL Monitoring 101

At the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo I presented to a full room on MySQL Monitoring 101 .

This presentation focused on the following four goals.

  • Know what to monitor
  • Know how you can monitor
  • Learn practices to diagnose problems
  • Have a foundation of historical information

Updated 09/18/09
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