MySQL High Availability

Chapter 10. Replication Monitoring

Joel spent a few moments logging into the Seattle replication slave and determined that replication was still running.

A familiar voice spoke from his doorway. “What about that Seattle thing, Joel? Are you on it?”

“I’m still working on that one, sir. I need to figure out the replication configuration and monitor the problem.” Joel thought to himself, “… and read more about replication monitoring.”

“All right, Joel. I’ll let you work. I’ll check on you again after lunch.”

As his boss left, Joel looked at his watch. “OK, so I’ve got about an hour to figure out how to monitor replication.”

With a deep sigh, Joel once again opened his favorite MySQL book to learn more about monitoring MySQL. “I didn’t think replication could lead to so many problems of its own,” he muttered.

Now that you know when your servers are performing well (and when they aren’t), how do you know how well your replication is performing? Things may be going smoothly, but how do you know that?

In this chapter, we discuss advanced monitoring, focusing on monitoring and improving replication performance.

Getting Started

There are two areas that can affect the performance of your replication topology. You must ensure both are optimized to avoid affecting replication.

First, ensure your network has the bandwidth to handle the replicated data. As we’ve discussed, the master makes a copy of the changes and sends it to the slaves via a network connection. If the network connection is slow or is ...