Last time, I installed the MySQL Enterprise Monitor and the Monitor Agent on an Ubuntu system. I was able to get both parts to talk to each other and get the graphs to display.
Two system being monitored with MySQL Enterprise Monitor
I installed the Agent on a Mac and had it displaying data in literally less time than it took to type this sentence.
I could information on both systems or dig down into each server. The dashboard has red, yellow, or green icons on various status items.
What — two alerts on my Ubuntu box? I clicked on the link and found I had CPU Usage Excessive and CPU I/O Usage Excessive during a time I was bulk loading data. I was able to mark those off the ‘to be worried about’ list. There are other advisors so you can watch for things like In-memory temporary table size limited by Maximum Heap Table Size, users being dropped, or Slave SQL Thread Stopped
Next time: Digging Deeper
