eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by MySqlQCacheTest

This test monitors the health of the query cache in the MySQL server.

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Queries_registered The number of queries that are registered with the cache Number   
Queries_added The number of queries added to the cache during the last measurement period Number   
Cache_hits The number of times the cache was accessed during the last measurement period Number   
Queries_deleted The number of queries that were deleted from the cache during the last measurement period Number A high value could indicate low memory allocation for the query cache. Since reading from the cache is less expensive than reading directly from the database, a higher memory allocation to the cache is advisable.
Non_cached_queries The number of queries that were not cached (not cachable due to their QUERY_CACHE_TYPE) during the last measurement period Number   
Free_memory The amount of free memory in the query cache MB A low value of this measure could cause subsequent queries to be rejected by the cache, owing to low memory availability. It would be good practice to tune the cache memory to handle more load. 
Free_blocks The number of free memory blocks in the query cache currently Number   
Total_blocks The total number of blocks in the query cache currently Number   
Total_queries This is the sum of cache inserts, cache_hits, and cache_not_cached queries during the last measurement period. Number