Zabbix 4 Network Monitoring - Third Edition

Environment trap

Let's try to find out what other interesting statistics we can gather this way. A common need is to monitor some statistics about databases. We could attempt to gather some MySQL query data; for example, how many queries per second are there? MySQL has a built-in query per second measurement, but that isn't quite what most users would expect. That particular value is calculated for the whole uptime MySQL has, which means it's quite useful, though only for the first few minutes. Longer-running MySQL instances have this number approaching the average value and only slightly fluctuating. When graphed, the queries per second graph gets flatter and flatter as time passes.

The flexibility of Zabbix allows us to use a different ...