Archive for the ‘MySQL-Enterprise-Monitor’ tag
Would Tufte approve of mixing units on a graph?
I’ve created a set of Cacti templates for graphing stats about MySQL. While these were based on several other people’s work, there are many improvements. One of them in particular I want to bring up, and I’ll go so far as to say it ought to be a “best practice” for graphing. That is, don’t mix units on a graph.
Read the rest of this entry »How much memory does MySQL Enterprise Monitor’s agent use?
After last week’s post on agents versus agentless monitoring systems, I got a lot of email. One, from a customer whose name I am not permitted to mention, sent me the following action shot (posted with permission):

