MySQL MonitoringFinding Meaning in Beautiful Graphs

Peter ZaitsevCEO, Percona

Oracle Open WorldSeptember 20, 2016

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About Percona

SolutionsforyoursuccesswithMySQLandMongoDB

Support,ManagedServices,Software

OurSoftwareis100%OpenSource

SupportBroadEcosystem– MySQL,MariaDB,AmazonRDS

InBusinessfor10years

Morethan3000customers,includingtopInternetcompaniesandenterprises

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About this Presentation

OverviewofExistingSolutions

andHistory

DiscusswhatweuseatPercona

Showwhatspecificthingsto

lookat

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Open Source Approach to Data Visualization

ThistalkisaboutOpenSourceApproachtoDataVisualization

Thereisalsocommercialsoftware(MySQLEnterpriseMonitor)

OrcloudhostedSoftware(DataDog,VividCortex,NewRelic)

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Many Sides of Monitoring

Alerting(Whenthingsgetbad)

InvestigationsandDiagnostics(Finding

RootCause)

CapacityPlanning(Preventingresource

exhaustion)

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Graphs are most useful for

ProblemDiagnostics&Troubleshooting

CapacityPlanning

GreatSupportinginformationforanAlert

Modern Visualization Architecture

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In The past…

•CACTI•Ganglia•Munin•Zabbix

SingleSystemwhichHandles

Everything

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Modern Systems: Well Defined Roles

DataCapture

StorageandProcessing Visualization

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Data Capture “Telemetry”

Requirements

•HighLevelofDetails•LowOverhead•Supportforyourtechnology

Solutions

•Statsd•Collectd•PrometheusExporters• InfluxDBTelegraf• IntelSnap

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Storage and Processing

Requirements

• HighPerformance(ingestandqueries)

• EfficientStorage• PowerfulQueryLanguage

Solutions

• OpenTSB• InfluxDB• Prometheus• ElasticSearch• Graphite(Whisper)• RiakTS

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Visualization/Dashboards

Requirements

•Visualization/Usability•SupportMultipleSources

•Extensibility

Technologies

•Chronograf•Kibana•Graphite•Grafana

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What Makes Grafana Special

Grafanadoesnotfocusondatacaptureorstorage

FocusonVisualizationonly

SupportsPlugins

SupportsMultipleDataSources

IntegrateswithOthervisualizationtools(Graphite,OpenNMS,Zabbix)

Greatestmomentuminthe

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What should you use ?

Usethesystemyouhavealready

Usemultiplesystems

Ensureyoucangetrightdatavisualizedrightway

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What do we use at Percona

InthePast

• CATIforvisualization• ExtendedwithPerconaMonitoringPlugins

Now

• Prometheusforcaptureandstorage

• GrafanaforVisualization• CustomVisualizationApplication

• PackagedasPerconaMonitoringandManagement

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Check out the Demo

• http://pmmdemo.percona.com

What are important things to look at ?

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What does MySQL do ?

•Selects•Inserts•Deletes•Updates

ServesQueries

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What Application Cares About ?

•Fast•Correct•Atalltimes

TheseQueriesBeing

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Troubleshooting is about

PoorPerformance

QueriesnotWorkingCorrectly

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Problem Caused By

Application

•ToomanyQueries

•BadQueries

MySQL

•ChoosingBadPlan

•ContentionIssues

•Locking

HardwareandEnvironment

•CPU•Disk•Memory•Network

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Lets explore!

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Looking for more MySQL ?

• Percona Live Europe • October 3-5• Amsterdam• MySQL, MongoDB, Other Open

Source Databases• https://www.percona.com/live/pla

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Thank You!