Monitoring in Azure Database for MariaDB

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Important

Azure Database for MariaDB is on the retirement path. We strongly recommend that you migrate to Azure Database for MySQL. For more information about migrating to Azure Database for MySQL, see What's happening to Azure Database for MariaDB?.

Monitoring data about your servers helps you troubleshoot and optimize for your workload. Azure Database for MariaDB provides various metrics that give insight into the behavior of your server.

Metrics

All Azure metrics have a one-minute frequency, and each metric provides 30 days of history. You can configure alerts on the metrics. Other tasks include setting up automated actions, performing advanced analytics, and archiving history. For more information, see the Azure Metrics Overview.

For step by step guidance, see How to set up alerts.

List of metrics

These metrics are available for Azure Database for MariaDB:

Metric Metric Display Name Unit Description
cpu_percent CPU percent Percent The percentage of CPU in use.
memory_percent Memory percent Percent The percentage of memory in use.
io_consumption_percent IO percent Percent The percentage of IO in use. (Not applicable for Basic tier servers)
storage_percent Storage percentage Percent The percentage of storage used out of the server's maximum.
storage_used Storage used Bytes The amount of storage in use. The storage used by the service may include the database files, transaction logs, and the server logs.
serverlog_storage_percent Server Log storage percent Percent The percentage of server log storage used out of the server's maximum server log storage.
serverlog_storage_usage Server Log storage used Bytes The amount of server log storage in use.
serverlog_storage_limit Server Log storage limit Bytes The maximum server log storage for this server.
storage_limit Storage limit Bytes The maximum storage for this server.
active_connections Active Connections Count The number of active connections to the server.
connections_failed Failed Connections Count The number of failed connections to the server.
seconds_behind_master Replication lag in seconds Count The number of seconds the replica server is lagging against the source server. (Not applicable for Basic tier servers)
network_bytes_egress Network Out Bytes Network Out across active connections.
network_bytes_ingress Network In Bytes Network In across active connections.
backup_storage_used Backup Storage Used Bytes The amount of backup storage used. This metric represents the sum of storage consumed by all the full database backups, differential backups, and log backups retained based on the backup retention period set for the server. The frequency of the backups is service managed and explained in the concepts article. For geo-redundant storage, backup storage usage is twice that of the locally redundant storage.

Server logs

You can enable slow query logging on your server. These logs are also available through Azure Diagnostic Logs in Azure Monitor logs, Event Hubs, and Storage Account. To learn more about logging, visit the server logs page.

Query Store

Query Store keeps track of query performance over time including query runtime statistics and wait events. The feature persists query runtime performance information in the mysql schema. You can control the collection and storage of data via various configuration knobs.

Query Performance Insight

Query Performance Insight works in conjunction with Query Store to provide visualizations accessible from the Azure portal. These charts enable you to identify key queries that impact performance. Query Performance Insight is accessible in the Intelligent Performance section of your Azure Database for MariaDB server's portal page.

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