# Monitoring

**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/monitoring/148
**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions
**Created:** [December 18, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/monitoring/148 "2006-12-18T09:24:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Cine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cine](https://forums.percona.com/u/Cine)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2006, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/monitoring/148/1 "2006-12-18T09:24:14Z")

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Hi

Is there a way to specify in detail what items to monitor, like sql servers profiler? Or is anyone working on it for future versions?

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### Author: ![Peter](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/peter/32/2_2.png) [@Peter](https://forums.percona.com/u/Peter)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2006, 11:44am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/monitoring/148/2 "2006-12-18T11:44:36Z")

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I think different people use different tools for the purpose.

Some use MySQL administrator it has couple of graphs.

I mainly use CACTI for long term graphing. It can be a bit buggy but you can find good templates.

NAGIOS is great for monitoring.

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### Author: ![rkhatibi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9bcb4/32.png) [@rkhatibi](https://forums.percona.com/u/rkhatibi)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/monitoring/148/3 "2006-12-21T17:52:10Z")

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Cacti is really nice for long term graphing. Using the latest Cacti and the templates from this site. [URL][http://www.faemalia.net/mysqlUtils/[/URL]](http://www.faemalia.net/mysqlUtils/%5B/URL%5D)

Most of the original work on that template is from the DB admins from Flickr and Digg IIRC.

Ramin