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1. Grafana is an open source tool for visualizing time series data and metrics. It supports over 40 data sources and allows users to create customizable dashboards. 2. The presentation covered using Grafana to monitor and visualize MySQL database metrics over time. Specific metrics discussed included connections, query latency, errors, and slow queries. 3. The new MySQL data source for Grafana was demonstrated, allowing direct querying and visualization of MySQL database metrics within Grafana dashboards.

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Visualize Your Data With Grafana

Percona Live 2017


Daniel Lee - Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Daniel Lee
● Software Engineer at Grafana Labs

● Stockholm, Sweden

● @danlimerick on Twitter
What is Grafana?
Grafana
The Grafana Project
- First release on January, 2014.

- Apache License

- 17800 Stars on GitHub

- > 3000 forks


Grafana Installations - the last 400 days
Agenda
1. Introduction to Grafana

2. Introduction to Monitoring

3. Monitoring MySQL

4. Application Metrics

5. The new MySQL data source for Grafana


Timeseries Definition
A time series is a sequence of values in time order.

Most commonly the sequence is taken at evenly spaced points in time.


Timeseries Are Everywhere
Logs Can Be Timeseries
Battlefield Stats
Aggregations
- Aggregations over time

- Summarize functions

- Sum, max, min, count, avg, percentiles

- Can visualize the data from different angles


Timeseries Value Types
● Gauges

● Counters

● Timers
Timeseries Databases
- Not really relational data

- More efficient at storing timeseries data

- Better at querying timeseries data


Grafana Dashboards
Graph Panel
Graph Panel - Display Options
~40 Published Data Sources
And many more...
Query Editors - Prometheus
Query Editors - Graphite
Query Editors - InfluxDB
Alerting
Ready Made Dashboards
GrafanaCloud
Monitoring
“observe and check the progress or quality of (something) over a period of time;
keep under systematic review.”

or

What’s broken, and why?


Observability
- A culture of being data-driven/data-informed

- Whitebox monitoring

- Application metrics

- Something you have to build into your system


Whitebox Monitoring
1. Know when stuff fails

2. Be able to debug why it failed

3. Future trends

- Detect future problems

- capacity planning
Know when stuff fails
Monitor symptoms. Not causes.

- Throughput (Rate)

- number of errors (Errors)

- Performance (Duration

Based on:

- Googles’ Four Golden Signals

- R.E.D
Monitoring MySQL - Metrics to alert on
Depends on your context.

Some examples:

- Connections

- Query Latency/Run Time

- Query Errors

- Slow Queries
Monitoring MySQL - querying for metrics
- INFORMATION_SCHEMA

- PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA

- Counters:
select
lower(variable_name) as variable_name,
variable_value from global_status
where variable_name = 'slow_queries' or variable_name = 'max_used_connections'
Monitoring MySQL
1. Collect data

2. Write to a Timeseries database

3. Visualize in Grafana

4. Add alert rules


Collector/Timeseries DB Combinations
1. CollectD + Graphite

2. Telegraf + InfluxDB

3. Node Exporter + Prometheus

4. Lots of other combinations


Where to find out more
Prometheus
- mysqld_exporter
- Roman Vynars’ presentations at PerconaLive and Promcon

InfluxDB
- Telegraf MySQL Input plugin

CollectD
- MySQL plugin
- DBI plugin
An Example: Monitoring MySQL for GrafanaCloud
Alert Query for Connections
Alert Condition for Connections
Triggered Alert
Trends - Last 30 Days
Application Metrics
- Measure the user experience

- Communicate with Graphs and Metrics


The MySQL Data Source
Demo
Demo Fail Backup - Create Table
Demo Fail Backup - Query
Demo Fail Backup - Query Zoomed In
Demo Fail Backup - Template Variable
Demo Fail Backup - Graph
Demo Fail Backup - Timeshifted 1 Week
Recommended Talks
- GrafanaCon 2016: Brian Brazil, Monitoring What Matters

- PromCon 2016: Roman Vynar, Graphing MySQL Performance with


Prometheus and Grafana

- Monitorama 2016: Torkel Ödegaard - Grafana Masterclass

- Grafana Screencasts by Torkel Ödegaard on docs.grafana.org


But wait there’s more
Grafana 5.0 coming soon:

- Postgres Data Source

- Dashboard Folders

- Dashboard permissions

- Elasticsearch Alerting

- Cloudwatch Alerting

- New Dashboard layout engine


Dashboard Folders
New Dashboard Layout Engine
Q&A
- Get Grafana - grafana.com

- GrafanaCloud: https://grafana.com/cloud/grafana

- Play Site: http://play.grafana.org

- github.com/grafana/grafana

- @grafana

- @danlimerick

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