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The Uptime Infrastructure Monitor MySQL Advanced Metrics monitor collects the following performance metrics from a MySQL database:

Metric
Explanation
Description

Uptime

The number of seconds that MySQL has been running.

Questions

The number of queries that have been sent to the database.

Slow Queries

The number of queries that take longer than long_query_time to complete.

Open Tables

The number of database tables that are opened independently by each concurrent thread.

QPSA

The average number of queries, per second, that must be exceeded before Uptime Infrastructure Monitor generates an alert.

Bytes Received

The number of bytes received by the server.

Bytes Sent

The number of bytes sent by the server to all clients.

Delayed Insert Threads

The number of delayed insert threads that must be exceeded before Uptime Infrastructure Monitor sends an alert.

Delayed Errors

The number of delayed insert threads that had an error.

Max Used Connections

The maximum number of connections that have been in simultaneous use because the server was started.

Threads Connected

The maximum number of clients that can be connected to the database at any one time.

Threads Running

The number of threads that are running, which can be used to determine whether or not the database is becoming overloaded.

QCache Inserts

The number of queries added to the query cache.

QCache Hits

The number of hits to the query cache (qcache_hits) to determine the number of query results taken directly from the cache instead of executing them.

QCache Lowmem Prunes

The number of QCache_lowmem_prunes that can be deleted from the cache because of low memory.

QCache Not Cached

The maximum number of queries that are not cached.

QCache Free Memory

The amount of free memory for the query cache.

QCache Free Blocks

The number of free memory blocks in query cache.

QCache Table Blocks

The amount of query cache memory fragmentation.