Monitor your MySQL database performance using New Relic Distribution of OpenTelemetry (NRDOT) with comprehensive insights into database metrics, query performance, and system health.
This NRDOT-based approach complements our existing On-Host Integration (OHI) by leveraging OpenTelemetry standards for database monitoring, making it easier to integrate with your existing observability stack.
Unlike On-Host Integrations, NRDOT operates independently of the Infrastructure agent. It doesn't require the Infrastructure agent to collect database telemetry. NRDOT also includes native host monitoring capabilities, so you can choose to:
- Use the Infrastructure agent for host monitoring alongside NRDOT for database monitoring, or
- Use NRDOT to monitor both the database and the host.
Choose your installation method
You can install the NRDOT Collector for MySQL monitoring in the following ways:
Guided install
To install this through the New Relic UI instead, go to one.newrelic.com > Integrations & Agents > MySQL (OpenTelemetry) . Follow the on-screen instructions to set up the integration.
Installation at a glance
- Check compatibility and gather prerequisites.
- Install the NRDOT Collector.
- Configure the monitoring user.
- Configure the NRDOT Collector.
- Restart the NRDOT Collector.
- Verify data is flowing to New Relic.
Next: Install and configure
- Manual install: Set up the collector yourself on your own infrastructure
- New Relic CLI: Install and configure the collector with a single command
- Ansible: Install and configure the collector at scale using the
newrelic.newrelic_installAnsible role - Chef: Install and configure the collector at scale using the
newrelic-installChef cookbook - Helm chart: Install and configure MySQL monitoring on Kubernetes using the
mysql-otelHelm chart - Docker: Run the collector as a sibling container to a MySQL instance already running in Docker