eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by MySqlThreadTest

This test tracks the MySql server threads and reports various performance statistics pertaining to them.

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Threads_cached The number of threads in the thread cache currently Number  
Threads_spawned The number of threads newly created to handle new connections during the last measurement period Number Where possible ensure that the number of total threads is not set to be much larger than the maximum number of simultaneous requests expected for the server.
Threads_active The number of threads that are currently active Number A high value for this measure is indicative of a high load on database server.
Slow_launch_threads The number of threads that have taken more than slow_launch_time for creation, during the last measurement period Number A high value for this measure could cause excessive delay in processing new connection requests to the database server.
Delayed_insert_threads The number of delayed insert handler threads in use Number