Monitoring MySQL

There are many different types of existing monitoring products that perform various functions. Some provide real time analysis, some are only text based, and some provide a graphical interface.

Most of the graphical products provide plugins to support MySQL, and are as such not a complete product for MySQL Monitoring. For each product we aim to provide the following information.

• URLs for Home Page, Downloads and Documentation
• Cost
• Features
• Limitations

The following are a list of free and commercial products that provide some level of MySQL Monitoring.

Free

• Cacti
• Munin
• Nagios
• Zabbix
• MyTop
• Innotop
• statpack
• mysqlreport
• mtop

Commercial

A number of these commercial products offer free trial periods.

• MONyog
• Zenoss
• MySQL Enterprise Monitor
• Big Brother
• EM7
• iGlass
• Hyperic
• DBTuna