Learn About Monitoring Features

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Overview

Advanced monitoring capabilities are included with your SkySQL service:

SkySQL automatically performs basic health checks for your SkySQL services and servers (nodes).

Status is indicated through the SkySQL Portal, DBaaS API, and SkySQL Monitoring.

At a glance, you can quickly check whether your service is healthy:

Or critical:

Metrics optimized for MariaDB components support your capacity planning, performance management, and service operation needs:

Dashboards display SkySQL metrics and are customer-configurable:

Dashboards are provided per-service and per-server (node)
Metrics are grouped by topic, such as status, queries, and system resource usage
Time range is configurable from "last 5 minutes" to "last 7 days", or you can set an absolute time range
Panels (which display metric data) can be removed, moved, or resized

Alerts and notifications are triggered based on customer-defined rules:

Sensible defaults provide a starting point for customization, with outage and resource usage threshold-based warnings and critical alerts
Notifications occur to customer-defined email channels
Alerting rules can be tagged, and notifications can be sent for specific services or based on tags

Logs are archived:

Logs are downloadable by service, by server, by log type, and by day
Logs are rotated daily
Logs for both active and deleted services remain available with seven-year retention

Remote Observability Service ingests metrics from MariaDB databases outside SkySQL:

Available to MariaDB enterprise customers for use on-premises and in the cloud
By installing the Remote Observability Agent, metrics and status are pushed to SkySQL Monitoring

Observability API allows SkySQL Monitoring metrics to be accessed from popular APM platforms (Application Performance Monitoring platforms).