Tag: MPM General

Hi,

I have trouble to understand the settings of the different sections :
[default
],
[db_server
]…

I have a remote MySQL server registered in Zabbix as DBSERVER01, where there are several databases:

> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| phpmyadmin         |
| myapp              |
+--------------------+

The most important DB I need to monitor is “myapp” of course, but …

Question: How does the MPM MaaS agent send data to the service?

Answer: The MPM MaaS agents uses a simple HTML file upload to send data to the service.

Question: Is it possible to encrypt the data the MPM MaaS agent is sending to the service?

Answer: Currently the MPM MaaS agent only does a plain HTML file upload. So NO data encryption happens at the moment. If we see high demand of customers for this feature we will implement it.

Question: Is there a company behind this MySQL monitoring service?

Answer: …

Question: What is the MySQL Performance Monitor (MPM) monitoring and what data is the agent sending?

Answer: The MPM agent is gathering mainly the output of:

SHOW GLOBAL STATUS;
SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES;
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS;

and some data of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA and the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA

Question: What MPM modules do you provide at the moment?

Answer: You can find a list of the provided modules here.