Databases are a critical component of our systems and their malfunction can affect business productivity. Therefore, we must make sure that they are working correctly. PandoraFMS has a plugin that allows the remote monitoring of MySQL databases through a Discovery task, by means of this task we can obtain information about the performance and status of the database, such as the number of connections, the availability of the database, the number of queries that are being made, buffer status and cache status, among other types of information.

Proxmox is an open source server virtualization environment. With this plugin, and by using the API, we will be able to extract data about nodes, backups, virtual machines and existing lxc containers, as well as information related to the system storage. In this video we see how the plugin works at a manual execution level in the terminal and how to register and use it in our PandoraFMS console.