Monitoring your technology stack with New Relic

MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud
Monitoring with New
Relic
Ronald Bradford
http://ronaldbradford.com
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013-10
EffectiveMySQL.com - Performance, Scalability & Business Continuity

ABOUT AUTHOR
Ronald Bradford
24 years of RDBMS experience,14 years with MySQL
MySQL Inc (2006-2008)
Oracle Corporation (1996-1999)
Published Author (4 books)
Oracle ACE Director
MySQL community member of the year (2009 & 2013)
All time top MySQL blogger
Provide independent MySQL/
LAMP/Cloud consulting

Why Monitor?


Zabbix
OpenTSDB

Zenoss
Hyperic

Cacti
Nagios
Munin

MySQL Enterprise Monitor

Monitoring
Options

Ganglia
CollectD
StatsD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitoring_systems

New Relic

Boundary

DataDog


New Relic


New Relic
Application Monitoring

Historically

Server Monitoring
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Agent-like


The cloud - SaaS
Minimal installation
Minimal administration
Cloud based management
Web
Mobile
Integrations to other products

New Relic
Application Monitoring

Introducing

Server Monitoring
NOW - New Relic Platform
<insert product here>


NEw Relic
Subscription per server
Standard ($24 p.s. p.m.)
Pro

($149 p.s. p.m.)

YOU CAN GET UNLIMITED
STANDARD FREE BECAUSE BY THE
MySQL PLUGIN AUTHOR
http://j.mp/newrelic-mysql

1
2
3

No Credit Card Details required

4

http://j.mp/newrelic-mysql

NAVIGATION


LICENSE


ALERTs


Server
Ubuntu/Debian/RedHat/CentOS/Linux/Windows


SERVER INSTALL
LICENSE_KEY="<enter key here>"
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.newrelic.com/pub/newrelic/
el5/x86_64/newrelic-repo-5-3.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install -y newrelic-sysmond
sudo nrsysmond-config --set license_key=${LICENSE_KEY}
sudo /etc/init.d/newrelic-sysmond start

Helps to use good hostnames


Application
PHP/Ruby/.NET/Java/Python/Node.js


PHP, Ruby, .NET, Java, Python, Node.js

PHP INSTALL
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.newrelic.com/pub/newrelic/
el5/x86_64/newrelic-repo-5-3.noarch.rpm
sudo yum install -y newrelic-php5
sudo newrelic-install install
# prompted for LICENSE_KEY
sudo service httpd restart


Platform
MySQL/Memcached/Apache/Redis/MongoDB/AWS/...


JRE (on some server)

https://github.com/newrelic-platform/newrelic_mysql_java_plugin/

MYSQL INSTALL
Version 1 - Needs streamlining

sudo su LICENSE_KEY="<enter key here>"
wget -O /tmp/newrelic.tar.gz https://raw.github.com/newrelic-platform/
newrelic_mysql_java_plugin/master/dist/newrelic_mysql_plugin-1.0.6.tar.gz
cd /usr/local
tar xvfz /tmp/newrelic.tar.gz
mv newrelic_mysql_plugin-1.* newrelic_mysql_plugin
cd /usr/local/newrelic_mysql_plugin
echo "licenseKey=${LICENSE_KEY}" > config/newrelic.properties
echo "java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level = INFO
com.newrelic.metrics.publish.handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler" >
config/logging.properties
echo '[
{
"name" : "'`hostname -s`'",
"host" : "localhost",
"metrics" : "status,newrelic,innodb,innodb_status,innodb_mutex,slave"
}
]' > config/mysql.instance.json
#mysql < mysql_user.sql
nohup java -jar newrelic_mysql_plugin-*.jar &

https://github.com/newrelic-platform/newrelic_mysql_java_plugin/

General Views


navigation


MYSQL Sources
SHOW GLOBAL STATUS
SHOW MASTER STATUS
SHOW SLAVE STATUS
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS
SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX
<Any SQL statement>

Coding Features
SHOW ENGINE INNODB MUTEX
Dynamic metric names

Rollup, supporting different formats
in 5.5, 5.6, Percona etc


Coding Features
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS


Version 1
Your input and feedback
See limitations


Default is “PHP Application”
/etc/php.d/newrelic.inc
newrelic.appname = "PHP Application"

Other Products


MEMCACHE INSTALL
sudo pip install newrelic-plugin-agent
sudo cp /opt/newrelic_plugin_agent/newrelic_plugin_agent.cfg
/etc/newrelic/newrelic_plugin_agent.cfg
sudo
sudo
sudo
sudo
sudo

useradd -m -s /bin/bash newrelic
mkdir -p /var/log/newrelic /var/run/newrelic
chown newrelic:newrelic /var/*/newrelic
vi /etc/newrelic/newrelic_plugin_agent.cfg
newrelic_plugin_agent -c
/etc/newrelic/newrelic_plugin_agent.cfg -f

https://rpm.newrelic.com/accounts/389698/plugins/directory/53

meetme plugin
PHP Cache
HTTP Server
CouchDB
Edgecast CDN API
Memcached
MongoDB
Nginx
pgBouncer
PHP FPM

PostgreSQL
RabbitMQ
Redis
Riak
uWSGI


Other Plugins
Logwatcher

F5

Varnish

AWS EC2/RDS/ELB

Sendgrid

Rabbit MQ

Cassandra

Sphinx

Haproxy

<write your own>

Hadoop

User Interface


History


Click and drag for subset of time

Conﬁguration


MySQL Plugin
Plugin has more features than UI can
support at present
Conﬁgurable namespaces
Row/Set SQL statements
Conﬁgurable metrics


MySQL config
$ cat /path/to/config/mysql.instance.json
[
{
"name" : "db1",
"host" : "localhost",
"metrics" : "status,newrelic,innodb_status,
innodb_mutex,master"
},
One agent can collect data from
{
many MySQL Instances
"name" : "db2",
"host" : "db2.hostname.com",
"user" : "monitor",
"password" : "password",
"metrics" : "status,newrelic,slave"
}
]


namespaces
$ cat /path/to/config/metric.category.json
[
{ "category" : "status",
"SQL" : "SHOW GLOBAL STATUS",
"result" : "set",
"value_metrics":"Max_used_connections,....",
"counter_metrics" :"Bytes_received,Bytes_sent,..."
},
{
"category" : "slave",
"SQL" : "SHOW SLAVE STATUS",
"result" : "row",
"value_metrics" : "Read_Master_Log_Pos,
Slave_IO_Running,
Slave_SQL_Running,


namespaces
$ cat /path/to/config/metric.category.json
[
{
"category" : "innodb_metrics",
"SQL" : "SELECT name, count FROM
information_schema.innodb_metrics",
"result" : "set",
"comment" : "MySQL 5.6 or later",
"value_metrics" : "...",
"counter_metrics" : "..."
},
...

Current UI does not support with
default MySQL plugin, but

Modifying plugin
https://github.com/newrelic-platform/
newrelic_mysql_java_plugin
com.newrelic.plugins.mysql.instance.G
UID="new value"
Request to overload via parameter (to
help with current UI limitations)


Limitations
(Also exist with most monitoring
products)


sampling
60 seconds (ﬁxed)


CopperEgg Example
(15 second samples)

averaging
Deceiving

No maximum
support

alerting limits
Positive range only
Summary metrics
only
No low limits


Custom Dashboards
Enables you to group graphs together
Does not work with plugins YET!


Presentation
Likes lots of moving/changing data
Uninteresting values not well supported
replication lag
replication running YES/NO
Important summary alert[able] metric


Servers
Likes to work on per server basis
Default reporting namespace
Current
com.newrelic.plugins.mysql.instance
[agent] /mysql/status/com_select
[agent] /mysql/status/com*
One Goal
com.newrelic.plugins.mysql.topology
/mysql/status/com_select/<instance>

What is monitoring the monitoring?

Usage Patterns


tmp disk tables
High disk I/O - Investigate SQL


query cache
Query Cache NOT working


Query CAche
Enabling Query Cache beneﬁt


Yes, this time the
database (servers)
are on ﬁre!

If only I could trigger an
alert on this?

A Developers View


SQL for developers
Drill down to running queries
Look at ALL thread SQL statements
Aggregations


A better waterfall


Standard Feature

Still not a DB problem, but,
I need to identify and ﬁx

Conclusion


Conclusion
There is no excuse to have NO monitoring
Visualization can generally help show issues
Historical reporting can help review issues
NEITHER WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM
Hire Ronald Bradford


Ronald Bradford
ronald@effectivemysql.com

Monitoring your technology stack with New Relic

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