Other monitoring solutions
Monitoring generally means being alerted. However, monitoring can also be graphing, historical data, log centralization, log correlation altering, and so on. We're going to see some free and open source solutions here that can be useful, in addition to Nagios.
In the following sections, we won't dive deep into existing solutions, as that could cover several dedicated books; however, you will see what is the key to good monitoring and what solutions exist.
Graphs
Using graphs to view history is very important. It helps to know what happened in the past and what the evolution of MariaDB was (or any other component).
For example, it can be interesting to have an idea of the number of threads during a year. It can help to understand ...
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