| Measurement |
Description |
Measurement Unit |
Interpretation |
| Query_rate |
Indicates the rate at which queries are sent to this node. |
Queries/Second |
This is an indicator of the workload on each node. |
| Slow_queries |
Indicates the number of queries that have taken more than the ‘long_query_time’ for execution on this node, during the last measurement period. |
Number |
This value should ideally be 0. If it remains consistently high, the administrator should look to identify and optimize the slow queries.
Compare the value of this measure across nodes to determine the node where too many queries are slow. |
| Handler_read_first |
Indicates the number of times the first entry was read from an index on this node during the last measurement period. |
Number |
If the value of this measure is high, it suggests that the server is doing a lot of full index scans. |
| Handler_read_key |
Indicates the number of requests that were received in the last measurement period, to read a row based on a key. |
Number |
If the value of this measure is high, it indicates that your queries and tables are properly indexed. |
| Handler_read_next |
Indicates the number of requests received in the last measurement period, to read the next row in the key order. |
Number |
This will be incremented if you are querying an index column with a range constraint. This will also be incremented if you are doing an index scan. |
| Handler_read_prev |
Indicates the number of requests received in the last measurement period, to read the previous row in the key order. |
Number |
This is mainly used to optimize ORDER BY... DESC. |
| Handler_read_rnd |
Indicates the number of requests received in the last measurement period, to read a row based on a fixed position. |
Number |
This will be high if you are executing a lot of queries that require sorting of the result. If the value of this measure is high, then you probably have a lot of queries that require MySQL cluster to scan whole tables or you have joins that do not use keys properly. |
| Handler_read_rnd_next |
Indicates the number of requests received in the last measurement period, to read the next row in the datafile. |
Number |
This will be high if you are performing a lot of table scans. Generally, this suggests that your tables are not properly indexed or that your queries are not written to use the indexes properly. |