--user USER --password --host ADDRESS --port PORT --socket SOCKET --no-mycnf --help --debug |
These options mimic most standard applications.
--no-mycnf makes mysqlsla not read ~/.my.cnf which it does by default otherwise.
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--general LOG --slow LOG --raw LOG |
One of these options is required. Each option refers to its respective type
of log. All options are exclusive (meaning, you can only use one of the three).
To specify multiple logs, comma separate the list of log files. For example,
to have mysqlsla read two general logs: --general file1.log,file2.log.
If mysqlsla can't read a log it prints a warning and continues reading the other logs.
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--flat |
When mysqlsla processes SQL statements, it first "flattens" them, which means they
are set to all lowercase. This helps improve query abstraction because otherwise
"SELECT * FROM foo;" and "select * from foo;" appear to be different
statements in Perl (because Perl hash keys are case-sensitive). Later,
mysqlsla re-capitalizes most important SQL keywords like SELECT, FROM, WHERE, ORDER BY, etc.
This option prevents mysqlsla from re-capitalizes SQL keywords.
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--examples |
For all analyses except --print-queries and --time-each-query, mysqlsla prints the
abstracted form of queries. This options causes mysqlsla to print random,
not-abstracted, examples of the queries instead.
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--milliseconds |
Print time values in milliseconds if less than 1 second. For example: 0.014539 s is printed as
14.539 ms. Normally, MySQL logs all time values in seconds, but with the
MySQL
slow query log millisecond patch time values are logged in milliseconds. With that patch
it is necessary to use this option, otherwise many time values may show only as 0 s.
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--print-queries (--pq) |
Print ALL valid queries from all logs. This is useful if you want to see what
mysqlsla actually read from the logs. This option is not affected by --top.
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--explain (--ex) |
For each unique query, mysqlsla will print the output from EXPLAIN
and the number of rows produced and read.
This only works for SELECT statements. This option is also subject to
whether or not mysqlsla knows which database the query uses. For general
and raw logs, this is usually never a problem. For slow logs, however, it
is often a problem. See also --databases.
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--time-each-query (--te) |
Time how long it takes each query to execute.
No status indicator is given. Therefore, if a query takes a really long time
to execute, mysqlsla might appear to be frozen, but it is really only waiting
for the query to finish. See also --avg and --filter.
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--time-all-queries (--ta) |
Time how long it takes ALL queries in a general or raw log to execute.
This option only works with general or raw logs. The analysis has only
one result: the average total execution time of all queries.
The current time run (or percentage
complete of all time runs) is printed while the queries are being timed.
The resulting average is an average of all the time runs. See also
--avg, --percent, and --filter.
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Log Type | Sort Value |
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All (slow, general, and raw) |
Value: Description
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Slow Only |
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--avg N (--n) |
For --time-each-query and --time-all-queries mysqlsla by default makes 1 time run.
This option causes mysqlsla to make N time runs and average the results. If N is
20 or more, --percent is automatically invoked.
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--databases D (--db) |
In order to EXPLAIN a query, mysqlsla must know which database the query uses.
For general and raw logs, mysqlsla should always know this (because general logs
always log which database and you can put USE statements in raw logs). For slow
logs, however, the database is not always logged. Therefore, you can gives mysqlsla
hints as to which databases queries with unknown databases belong to with the
--databases command. mysqlsla will try to EXPLAIN a query with an unknown database
against each given database. The first database to make EXPLAIN for the query
work will be accepted. In the rare case that two databases can be used to EXPLAIN
the query, only the first given and successful will be used.
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--distribution (--pd) |
Technically this might be considered an extra analysis. For slow logs only,
this option causes mysqlsla to list the distribution of query execution times
under the line for Nth percent averages. The distribution of query execution
times means how often (percentage) the query took n seconds to execute. Each
distribution is listed like "%: n". For example, a listing of "40%: 15" means
that 40% of all the times that the query was logged it took 15 seconds to execute.
The last line of the distributions says what percentage of unique execution times
the above listed distributions account for. For example,
"79% of total" means that the above listed distributions account for 79% of
all the various, unique execution times. See also --mp and --np.
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--filter S |
By default mysqlsla allows the following SQL
statements: DELETE, DO, INSERT, REPLACE, SELECT,
TRUNCATE, UPDATE, USE, CALL, SET, START, SHOW,
ROLLBACK, COMMIT.
Any SQL statement not recognized (whether filtered or not)
is discarded. This is to prevent reading junk statements.
The default filter can be changed with this option.
The parameter S is a comma-separated list of above SQL
statements or * (for ALL statements) preceded by + to
allow the statement or - to discard the statement. For example,
to allow only INSERT and UPDATE: --filter -*,+INSERT,+UPDATE.
To discard everything: --filter -*. To discard only CALL:
--filter -CALL. NOTE: A filter = -*,+SELECT,+USE is automatically set when either the --time-all-queries or --time-each-query options are used! This is meant as a safety feature to prevent people from accidentally damaging a real database by timing queries against it because timing queries actually runs the queries against the database. To override this safety, specify the filter that you want. REMEMBER: If, for example, a DELETE statement is timed, it is also actually executed on the database! |
--flush-qc |
This option causes mysqlsla to FLUSH QUERY CACHE; before starting the analyses.
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--grep P |
This option causes mysqlsla to keep only statements
that match the Perl regular expression pattern P (case
insensitive). It is applied after statement filtering.
Since P is put directly into a pattern match (m/P/io),
you may need to escape some special characters in the
pattern like parenthesis.
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--mp N |
Do not show time distributions (from --distribution)
with a percentage less than N. Default is 5.
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--no-report (--nr) |
If you wish to only --print-queries and/or --time-all-queries,
this option causes the normal report to be suppressed.
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--np N |
Show at most N time distributions (from --distribution).
This option applies before --mp. Default is 10.
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--nth-percent N (--nthp) |
For slow logs only, the third line in the report is the values
of the slow query times re-calculated to include only the best
N percent of values. The default for N is 95, therefore the
line by default looks like: 95% of Time : 8127 total, 75.25 avg, 3 to 162 max This line says that 95% percent of all the times that this slow query was logged, it took 75.25 seconds on average to execute, ranging between 3 and 162 seconds, for a total time cost of 8127 seconds. These "nth percent" values may give a more realistic representation of the data because they exclude the worst times (the high-end 5%) which may only be rare, one-time occurrences. The --nth-percent option sets the percentage of the best times to calculate for this line. |
--only-databases X |
Analyze only queries using databases X, where X is a comma-separated list
of database names (example: db1,db2,db3). This option overrides the
--databases option. This option only works with general and raw logs
(slow logs usually do not log the database).
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--only-users X |
Analyze only queries belonging to users X, where X is a comma-separated list
of user names (example: root,user123,bob). This option only works with general
and slow logs.
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--only-hosts X |
Analyze only queries belonging to hosts X, where X is a comma-separated list
of host addresses, either by name or IP (example: localhost,192.168.0.1,box.domain.com).
This option only works with general and slow logs.
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--only-ids X |
Analyze only queries belonging to connection IDs X, where X is a comma-separated list
of connection IDs (example: 23,45,67). This option only works with general logs.
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--percent |
For --time-each-query and --time-all-queries mysqlsla by default makes 1 time run.
If more time runs are specified with --avg, these time runs can be counted as a
percentage complete with this option. This only affects --time-all-queries (--time-each-query
doesn't indicate which time run its currently on). The percentage complete is
listed as %25, 50%, 75%. This option is implicitly invoked if 20 or more time
runs are specified with --avg.
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--top N |
By default mysqlsla lists only the top 10 queries. This option limits or increases
the output to the top N queries.
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