In this interview, learn why monitoring databases is important, what sort of things need to be monitored, how to use Icinga as a monitoring solution, and more.
Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.
This blog post is with Bernd Erk, CEO of Icinga. His talk is titled Monitoring Open-Source Databases With Icinga. Icinga is a popular open-source successor of Nagios that checks hosts and services and notifies you of their statuses. But you also need metrics for performance and growth to deal with your scaling needs. Adding conditional behaviors and configuration in Icinga is not just intuitive but also intelligently adaptive at runtime. In our conversation, we how to intelligently monitor open-source databases.
In addition to the basic local and remote availability checks, monitoring database replication is very important. We often see environments where the standby slave is outdated by years or not able to keep up with the incoming load. From there, you can go into databases and application metrics to learn more about performance and I/O behavior.
