Introduction
There are several ways of tracking and measuring our usage of MariaDB. Some, such as the MariaDB Audit Plugin, come from third parties. Others, such as the performance schema, are built in. All of this helps us know what is happening on our server so that we can track our current usage better, analyze long term performance trends, and plan for our future needs.
The recipes in this chapter introduce several auditing and tracking features that we can enable in MariaDB.