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Data collection options

If you want to collect data from the server, you need to select "Enable Data Collection", so SQL DM for MySQL collects and stores various MySQL and OS metrics.

Define the collection interval for every server as you want

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You can also define the time interval between two successive retrievals of data. For production systems a setting between 2 and 10 minutes is a good place to start.

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SQL DM for MySQL is designed for storing large amounts of data for long periods of time. Data collected before the specified timeframe time frame is purged automatically. Timeframe Time frame may be specified in seconds, minutes, hours and days for a particular server.

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