Why Monitor MySQL on Azure?

MySQL on Azure is a fully-managed database that can handle mission-critical workloads with predictable performance and dynamic scalability. This relational database offers high-availability, automatic backups, and data protection at-rest and in-motion. Microsoft is responsible for managing the infrastructure of servers and providing high redundancy, high availability, and up to 99.99% uptime SLAs. This ensures virtually zero downtime, cost effectiveness, no tussles of routine security, maintenance, updates and patches. With Azure Database for MySQL, businesses can innovate faster by focusing on application development rather than database management with advanced security, high availability, and a service-level agreement (SLA) of up to 99.99 percent. Therefore, most administrators are inclined towards databases offered by cloud service providers rather than investing on databases that are hosted on-premises. However, to maintain the performance, reliability, and availability of your database server, it is very essential to keep an eye on the day-to-day performance of the database server hosted on cloud. This is exactly where eG Enterprise plays a major role. eG offers a unique MySQL on Azure monitoring model. Using this model, you are able to proactively troubleshoot potential problems and optimize your workload before the issues have an impact on the performance of the database server. To use this model, only a single eG remote agent is required; this agent sits on a remote host and collects the required metrics from the target database.