Hello,

I run a few cPanel servers and run Munin as my resource monitor. At the time I wrote this the version included with cPanel was munin 1.24. Ever since I have installed the plugin from cPanel it would monitor MySQL upon first install and then stop if the server was reboot. Uninstalling and reinstalling would once again get Munin to monitor MySQL but having to uninstall and reinstall just for a reboot, just did not seem like something that you should have to do. After many months of on and off testing this is the fix I have come up with.

  1. Create a MySQL user with a password that is NOT granted privilege to any DB. Simply create the user.
  2. Create a file called /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node
  3. In the file /etc/munin/plugin-conf.d/munin-node put this:
    [mysql*]
    user root
    group wheel
    env.mysqladmin /usr/bin/mysqladmin
    env.mysqlopts -u [MySQL_usr] -p[MySQL_usrpassword]
  4. Then Save. Where [MySQL_usr] is a valid MySQL user and [MySQL_usrpassword] is it’s password. Note that there is NO space between -p and the password. This is critical.

Now what about 30 minutes to an hour to allow the munin-node to gather enough info to have something to graph. Then go view your Munin graphs. All of your MySQL graphs should have something in them.

Sincerely,
Mike