MariaDB monitoring
MariaDB is a widely used open-source relational database management system. Monitoring MariaDB is essential for ensuring the best performance, availability, and security of your databases. Site24x7 provides comprehensive monitoring solutions to track key performance metrics, detect anomalies, and optimize MariaDB instances.
Key features
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Real-time performance monitoring: Monitor critical metrics like queries per second, active connections, database buffer pool efficiency, DML operations, and slow queries.
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Query performance insights: Identify long-running queries.
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Alerts and notifications: Get instant alerts on performance degradation, high resource consumption, and failures.
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Integration with Site24x7: Leverage our unified dashboard to correlate database performance with application and infrastructure monitoring.
Use case
An online retail company relies on MariaDB for handling high-traffic transactions, inventory updates, and customer data management. During peak sales periods, the company experiences slow query performance and increased database latency, which negatively impacts the user experience. By implementing Site24x7 MariaDB monitoring, they can:
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Identify slow queries to speed up response times.
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Monitor resource usage trends and scaled database resources proactively.
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Reduce downtime by detecting anomalies early and resolving issues before they impact customers.
With Site24x7's MariaDB monitoring, the company achieves improved database performance, high availability, and a seamless shopping experience for its customers.
Prerequisites
Along with the other prerequisites mentioned in the MySQL monitoring help page, grant the following permission if the instance belongs to MariaDB version 10.5 or above:
GRANT SLAVE MONITOR ON *.* TO '<username>'@'<hostname>';
Supported versions
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MariaDB monitoring will be supported only if the Site24x7 Linux server monitoring agent version is 19.4.0 or above.
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MariaDB version should be 10.5 or above.
Setup and configuration
Follow the steps in this help document to set up your MariaDB monitor.
Supported metrics
Track and measure critical performance metrics of your MariaDB and MariaDB database, such as attempted connections, aborted connects, buffer pool utilization, threads running, slow queries, and more, from a unified console.