Monitoring Your MySQL Database Using mysqladmin
As with any other dynamic running process, the MySQL database also needs sustained management and administration of which monitoring is an important part. Database monitoring allows you to find out mis-configurations, under or over resource allocation, inefficient schema design, security issues, poor performance that include slowness, connection aborts, process hanging, partial resultsets etc. It is giving you an opportunity to fine tune your platform server, database server, its configuration and other performance factors. This article provides you an insight into monitoring your MySQL database through tracking and analyzing important database metrics, variables and logs using mysqladmin.