The Best MySQL Monitoring Tools & Software of 2023 [Pros & Cons Comparison]

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How to Choose the Right Monitoring Tool for Your Use Case

When choosing a MySQL performance monitoring tool, you should consider:

• Hosting model: Self-hosted vs. SaaS.
  TIP: While self-hosted may look like the cheaper option, when you take into account the infrastructure and maintenance costs—which are almost always underestimated—SaaS is often less expensive.
• User experience: Dashboards.
  TIP: Look for solutions that feature out-of-the-box dashboards to save you the time of having to research what metrics to monitor, how to aggregate them, and then create the dashboards yourself.
• Alerting: Ability to route notifications to chat or incident response service.
  TIP: Look for solutions with built-in and seamlessly integrated alerting to simplify your workflow.
• Pricing: Cost of the solution and additional tools.
  TIP: When comparing solutions, consider whether you’ll need to pay to run other tools in parallel, and make sure to take into account infrastructure, people, time, and effort to calculate the TCO (total cost of ownership).

All of the solutions I’ve reviewed today should provide you with enough information to determine whether your MySQL database is healthy.

Conclusion

With databases like MySQL at the heart of most applications, ensuring visibility into your MySQL deployment is crucial. A monitoring solution helps by detecting if your MySQL becomes unhealthy, so you don’t end up finding out from your customers that your database is down.

All of the above MySQL monitoring tools provide metrics that allow you to understand MySQL clients (how many, how long, results, etc.) and the internal MySQL state (buffers, threads, pages, etc.). But no matter which vendor you choose, going from little or no metrics to using one of these tools is sure to supercharge your MySQL operations.

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