MySAR, a Sidekick for Other Monitoring Tools
I’m sure that most people have at least one of the tools listed in Ronald Bradford’s article: Monitoring MySQL Options. Many of these tools, such as Nagios and Cacti, also monitor the operating system. However, in the same way that a quick look at sar‘s output can give you some insight on the OS, with MySAR you can do the same for the MySQL server. This is especially useful when it is not possible to access a monitoring tool’s graphic interfaces.
What Was Going On Around 2:30pm?
This is a question a customer asked us. To answer it we ran MySAR for a few days and queried the results for analysis. Looking at the data, we determined that the number of INSERT operations was significantly higher than any other, so we queried for the Com_insert status values. Com_insert is a counter that accumulates the number of INSERTs issued since the last server start (or since the last FLUSH STATUS command). For details on the variables available check Chapter 1. mysqld Options/Variables Reference.
The initial query we used was: Read the rest of this entry . . .
