The MySQL Enterprise Monitor is part of the MySQL Enterprise set of Enterprise-ready services, designed with the enterprise database professional in mind. The MySQL Enterprise Monitor takes the guesswork out of database performance management and supplies powerful automated mechanisms for keeping an enterprise-wide deployment of MySQL servers up and running efficiently at all times.

The MySQL Enterprise Monitor serves as an automated assistant for MySQL database administrators. This service is designed to help administrators with their day-to-day tasks by monitoring MySQL servers and identifying potential problems. These features are designed to save the database administrator's time and effort and to ensure that the highest levels of performance, reliability, and security are attained for any MySQL database environment, regardless of size.

An extension of existing MySQL Enterprise services, MySQL Enterprise Monitor monitors enterprise database environments and provides expert advice on how customers can tighten security and optimize the performance and uptime of their MySQL powered systems. Running inside the corporate firewall, the MySQL Enterprise Monitor provides a consolidated framework for monitoring key system metrics and enforcing MySQL best practices across the entire MySQL database environment.

MySQL Enterprise Monitor helps administrators:

MySQL Enterprise Monitor provides a valuable service to the full-time database administrator (DBA), and a “virtual DBA” to organizations that do not have a full-time DBA of their own.

The MySQL Enterprise Monitor was designed to tackle the job of managing the performance of any number of MySQL database servers, regardless of their physical or geographical location. Although MySQL Enterprise Monitor can easily track just a handful of MySQL servers, the service is specifically designed to greatly curtail the time it takes to get a handle on the availability and performance levels of many database servers at once.

The MySQL Enterprise Monitor does this by providing an intuitive and easily navigated web-based interface — called the Enterprise Dashboard — that serves as the portal for viewing an enterprise-wide installation of MySQL database servers. MySQL professionals can manage all their servers by group or individually if need be.

The Enterprise Dashboard web interface does not have to be installed on individual desktops, but is instead available from a centrally located machine that serves as the main location for the Monitoring and Advisory service.