MySQLPerformanceMonitoring withZabbix AnalternativetotheMySQLEnterprise Monitor?

byOliSennhauser
oli.sennhauser@fromdual.com http://www.fromdual.com
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Howmanyofyou...

monitortheirdatabaseservers? monitortheir(MySQL)databases? monitorperformancemetrics? alltheothers:Whynot?

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Linuxmonitoring

Question:WhatisyourfavouriteLinuxmonitoring application? 1187votes,April2010 Manipulated? Lit:LinuxJournal,[1]

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Whattomonitor?

Devices/Software

Server,Router,Switches,I/Osystemsetc. OperatingSystem,Networks,Applications,etc. DBdown,Replicationstopped,Servernotreachable,etc. Diskmorethann%fullorlessthanmGbytefree, Replicationmorethannsecondslagging,Datanodedown, 100%CPUutilization,etc.

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Incidents

CriticalEvents

Alert,immediateintervention,firefighting

Whattomonitor?

Trends(includestime!) Graphs Howlongdoesittakeuntil

mydiskisfull? myIndexMemoryisfilledup? Peak?Backup? Onceaday?AlwaysatSundaynight? I/Oproblemsduringourbackupwindow?

Whendoesithappen?

Howoftendoesithappen?Doesithappenperiodically?

Howdoesitcorrelatetootherinformations?

Readingthepatterns! thiscanhelpustofindtherootcauseofproblems
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Howtomonitor?

Basicsolutions:

top,vmstat,iostat,mytop,innotop,SHOW GLOBALSTATUS,SHOWINNODBSTATUS CLI!,nographs,nologterminformation,but goodforadhocanalysis! Nagios,Cactii,Zabbix, TypicallyNOTspecialisedinDBmonitoring...

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Graphicalsolutions

Focus

Database+Server Trends Nottheotherstuff... Problem:

Monitoringsolutionsaregeneric Adatabaseisaspecificapplication!
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MySQLmonitoring

Question:Whatmonitoringsoftwaredoyouuse? 907votes,January2005 PreMySQLEnterpriseMonitorera Lit:MySQL,[1]

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TheMySQLEnterpriseMonitor[4]

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TheMySQLEnterpriseMonitor

Pros

TailoredforMySQL Easyinstall HandyGUI QueryAnalyser(caution!) ReplicationMonitor Onlyforpayingcustomers Proprietarycode DoesNOTmonitorMySQLClusteryet[2],[3] Veryresourceintensive(JavaAppServer!) Future:IntegrationintoOracleEnterpriseManager??? MariaDB,Aria,XtraDB,PBXT,Drizzle,SphinxSE,?
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Cons

Kontrollbase[5]

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Kontrollbase

Pros

TailoredforMySQL Lightweightapplication(PHP) OpenSource(NewBSD) Easyinstall??? ReplicationMonitor Didnotworkforme(nondefaultinstallations:()! Answerfromdeveloper:itworksformeandmycustomers... Foundafewbugs. DoesNOTmonitorMySQLCluster? QueryAnalyser MariaDB,Aria,XtraDB,PBXT,Drizzle,SphinxSE,?
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Cons

Andnow?

MEMnogo Kontrollbasenoworknogo Selfwritten?notimenogo Nagios?complicated?Shudder...nogo Othersolutions? Afriendtoldmethathewillevaluate ZabbixformonitoringMySQL...

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Zabbix[6]
Itclaims:[7]

Commercialsupport

Annualsupportagreements Troublefreedeployment ProfessionalServices TechnicalAccountManager ZabbixTraining UpgradeServices

Allinonesolution

OpenSource Performancemonitoring Agentsforallplatforms AvailabilityandSLAreporting Collectionofanydata Greatgraphsandnetworkmaps

etc,etc...Wow!

Scalability

Upto100kmonitoreddevices Upto1Mofmetrics Thousandsofcheckspersecond Smalltolargedistributedsetups Easymaintenance

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Zabbixarchitecture

ZabbixisatypicalAgentServersetup:
zabbix_ agentd.conf zabbix_ proxy.conf zabbix_ proxy.log zabbix_ server.conf zabbix_ server.log

zabbix_ agentd.conf

Webbrowser ServerA zabbix_ server

zabbix_get

zabbix_ zabbix_ zabbix_ agentd agentd agentd ServerZ zabbix_ agentd

Device Device Device

zabbix_ proxy

ServerC Apache PHP

ServerB
zabbix_ sender

MySQL Database

Repository Database
(MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLlite)

Application Application Application

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InstallationofZabbix

Download

http://www.zabbix.com/download.php Server(Sourceonly,forLinuxandWindowsonly) Agent(Binariesfor:AIX,FreeBSD,HPUX,Linux,OpenBSD,Solaris, Windows) PackagesfromyourfavouriteLinuxDistro

http://www.zabbix.com/documentation/1.8/manual/installation http://www.howtoforge.com/zabbix_network_monitoring

Documentation

Recommendation:

Onethingaftertheother Serverfirst,Webinterfacenext,thenagents
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InstallZabbixserver

Createzabbixuser Untarsourcetarball Createzabbixdatabaseandpopulateit

AMySQL(PostgreSQL,)installationisneeded... Somepackagesmaybemissing... Doesnottaketoolong(<10min) (misc/conf/zabbix_server.conf)

./configure ; make ; make install

Createconfigurationfileforzabbixserver

Startthezabbixserver
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InstalltheZabbixwebinterface

Apache/PHPisrequired CopyPHPfilesto$DocumentRoot/zabbix http://localhost/zabbix Changephp.ini

Defaultsettingsareby farnotenough! date.timezone= Europe/Zurich

Restartwebserver Finishconfiguration Loginwithadmin/zabbix

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TheZabbixWebInterface

Itworks!

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TheZabbixagent

Eitherfromcompilingorusetheprovided binary Createzabbixuser Createconfigurationfileforzabbixagent

(misc/conf/zabbix_agentd.conf) Usezabbix_agentdNOTzabbix_agent Alsoinstallanagentontheservermachine!

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Startthezabbixagent

TheZabbixAgent

AndnowHurray! Ups,itdoesNOTwork:( Configuration HostsStatus ClickonNotMoni toredtoenable... Happenedsometimes tome Patiencehelps...

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WewantGraphs!

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Screens

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Latestdata

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Thedatabase

Nice,butwhataboutmyDatabase?
#/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf ###SetofparametersformonitoringMySQLserver(v3.23.42andlater) ###Changeu<username>andaddp<password>ifrequired #UserParameter=mysql.ping,mysqladminurootping|grepalive|wcl #UserParameter=mysql.uptime,mysqladminurootstatus|cutf2d":"|cutf1d"T" #UserParameter=mysql.threads,mysqladminurootstatus|cutf3d":"|cutf1d"Q" #UserParameter=mysql.questions,mysqladminurootstatus|cutf4d":"|cutf1d"S" #UserParameter=mysql.slowqueries,mysqladminurootstatus|cutf5d":"|cutf1d"O" #UserParameter=mysql.qps,mysqladminurootstatus|cutf9d":" #UserParameter=mysql.version,mysqlV

Enablethoseandrestarttheagent... Nothingwillhappen! Wehavetoaddatemplatetotheserverfirst

Template_App_MySQL
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MySQLLatestData

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MySQLQueriespersecond

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1 impression

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NotreallymuchdataforMySQL:( Noefficientgatheringmethod Nonicegraphs Isthatall? Zabbixseemstobeveryflexible,solet's doitourself!

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Requirements

FitintoZabbixarchitecture Mustsupportseveralmysqldperserver Shouldprovidemuchmoreinformation MustsupportotherStorageEnginesaswell

MySQLCluster,XtraDB,Aria,PBXT,SphinxSE

Simple Flexible Modular WorkonUnixoides(andWindows?)

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FromDualPerformanceMonitor forMySQL/ZabbixArchitecture

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Availablemodules[10]

Aria(forAriaSE,ex.MariaSE(crashsafeMyISAM)) InnoDB(commercial) Master(forMasterSlavereplication) MyISAM(forMyISAMSE) MySQL(nonSErelatedstuffforMariaDBandMySQL) NDB(commercial,forMySQLClusterSE,pre7.1and7.1) PBXT(forPBXTSE) Process(forUNIXprocesses) Slave(forMasterSlavereplication) XtraDB(forXtraDBSE(derivatofInnoDB)) Sphinx(fortheSphinxSEplugin(inplanning) Othermodulesonrequest...
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FromDualMonitorforZabbix

InstallZabbixasdescribedbefore. DownloadFromDualPerformanceMonitorforMySQL[9] Readinstallationdocumentation[10] LoadtheFromDualtemplates Createahostgroup(optional) Createahost(=database!)

Careful!HostnameMUSTmatchthenameintheFromDualagentconfigurationfile!!!

Linkthechosentemplatestothehost ConfigureFromDualagent HookFromDualagentintoZabbixagent:

#/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf UserParameter=FromDual.MySQL.check,/etc/zabbix/FromDualMySQLagent.pl\ /etc/zabbix/FromDualMySQLagent.conf

RestartZabbixagent
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Templates

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Hostconfiguration

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Overview/Dashboard

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Triggers

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Events

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Latestdata

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Rawgraphfromlatestdata

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Mapsforscaleoutsetups

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ScreenforMySQLCluster

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Graph(MySQLNetworktraffic)

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Graph(MySQLstatements)

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Screen(InnoDBbufferpool)

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Graph(PBXTfileread/write)

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Problems/Discussion

Onecandonearlyeverything(!) Itisalotofworkuntileverythingisinplace. Thewholesetupistrickyandneedssometimeuntilunderstood. ItisnotsosmoothlikeMEM.Installationismorelabourish. ThereisnoQueryAnalyser(QUAN)yet.Zabbixdevelopersayitcouldbe possiblewithv2.0! Usabilityisnotperfectyet(linksarenotendingupwhereIexpectit). Nobinariesavailableforserver,onlycommercial! Installationdocuisnotfoolprove? Needssomeexperiencetofindproblems but,itscool,giveitatryifyouhavenosolutioninplaceyet!
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Literature

[1]MySQLMonitoringsolutions:http://www.fromdual.com/mysqlmonitoringsolutions [2]ClusterMonitoringCMON: http://johanandersson.blogspot.com/2008/08/clustermonitoringcmon.html [3]ConfigureMySQLEnterpriseMonitortomonitorMySQLCluster: http://www.clusterdb.com/mysqlcluster/configuremysqlenterprisemonitortomonitormysqlcluster/ [4]TheMySQLEnterpriseMonitor:http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/monitor.html [5]Kontrollbase:http://kontrollsoft.com/softwarekontrollbase, http://code.google.com/p/kontrollbase/ [6]Zabbix:http://www.zabbix.org/ [7]Zabbixfeatures:http://www.zabbix.org/features.php [8]Zabbixdocumentation:http://www.zabbix.com/documentation.php [9]DownloadMySQLPerformanceMonitor:http://www.fromdual.com/download [10]Installationdocumentation:http://www.fromdual.com/mysqlperformancemonitor

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