Baron Schwartz

The Factors That Impact Availability, Visualized

12/21/15 We all want our systems to have high availability, but sometimes the exact meaning of “high availability” isn’t very clearly defined. However, availability — like scalabil…

See the Details with 1-Second Resolution Data

12/05/15 We’ve talked a lot about the high-resolution data we capture, but if you haven’t experienced it yourself, it might be a little abstract. Here, look at the difference betwe…

Is That Query Bad?

12/03/15 This post is part of an ongoing series on the best practices for effective and insightful database monitoring. Much of what’s covered in these posts is not intuitive, yet …

A Trendline Is a Model

11/30/15 This post is part of an ongoing series on the best practices for effective and insightful database monitoring. Much of what’s covered in these posts is unintuitive, yet vi…

Capacity Planning with the Universal Scalability Law

11/13/15 “How much load can this system sustain?” is a common question in capacity planning. The practical purpose is usually something like the following: How soon will the system…

Introducing Query Anomaly Detection

11/11/15 Anomaly detection sure is a hot topic. We’ve written about it ourselves a number of times, and Preetam Jinka and I just co authored a book for O’Reilly called Anomaly Dete…

Nobody Loves Graphite Anymore

11/06/15 Many of our customers use Graphite, and I don’t think anyone would argue with me when I say it’s probably the most commonly used time series database in the DevOps communi…

Great Advice on Monitoring Amazon RDS For MySQL From Datadog

10/21/15 Our friends at Datadog just published an insanely great three part series on monitoring Amazon RDS for MySQL using Datadog. You should go read that now. Full disclosure, I…

What If You Can’t Trace End-to-End?

10/15/15 A lot of monitoring systems have a goal of end-to-end tracing, from “click to disk” or something similar. This is usually implemented by adding some kind of tracing inform…

Integrating SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor with PagerDuty

08/31/15 It’s easy to integrate SoalrWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) with your existing workflow and team tools. Included on our growing list of integrations is PagerDuty…

The 8 Best Ways To Lose Your DBA

08/14/15 As we all know, good DBAs are a dime a dozen. They’re easy to replace and the cost of replacing them in terms of lost productivity, downtime, recruiting, training, etc. is…

What Is InnoDB History List Length?

07/20/15 Houston, we have a problem. Google search for “What is innodb history list length?” and you get a bunch of nonsense mixed in with correct information, and it’s hard to tel…