Monitoring

Announcing the MySQL Plugin for New Relic

Many application developers would know of New Relic . A SaaS performance and monitoring tool targeted towards your web application monitoring including PHP, Ruby, Java, .Net, Python and Node. With the release today (June 19, 2013) of the New Relic Platform , custom monitoring of data stores including MySQL are now possible.

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What do MySQL Consultants do?

One role of a MySQL consultant is to review an existing production system. Sometimes you have sufficient time and access, and other times you don’t. If I am given a limited time here is a general list of things I look at.

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Monitoring MySQL with MONyog

It just works. In absence of any MySQL monitoring for your site, I have found no solution that gets you operational as quickly and easily. MONyog can be deployed in 60 seconds, and configured in another 60 seconds.

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What alert monitoring do you use?

More importantly, how often to you confirm access to your server and database with that alert monitoring? With a client yesterday the primary database server while still usable and serving connections for a while, but was not accessible via SSH to investigate performance issues.

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MySQL Monitoring 101 – Graph your results

The problem Hands up those that don’t monitor their production MySQL web server. I’m a little surprised by this, but I’ve visited several clients that have absolutely no monitoring other then “the customers will tell us when something is wrong”.

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