In the previous post of this series, we looked at the hardware specifications and operating system settings of the host server through the lenses of a pt-summary report. Now that we know the foundation on which the database is running, we can turn our focus to MySQL itself. The second of our triad of tools from the Percona Toolkit will help us with that:
pt-mysql-summary conveniently summarizes the status and configuration of a MySQL database server so that you can learn about it at a glance.
The goal for this part is to find what MySQL distribution and version is being used if the server …
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