Stop logging cron jobs to /dev/null
I often see cron jobs configured to pipe all output to /dev/null to get rid of it. Other times the emails cron sent are piling up and ignored due to alert fatigue.
Tag: logging
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Summarize your MySQL slow log file with mysqldumpslow
It can be difficult to make sense of the slow query log when investigating MySQL database performance. Fortunately, MySQL comes with a little tool to help you interpret those queries, called mysqldumpslow.
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Logging MySQL queries to a table
I regularly need to find out which queries are being executed while debugging or investigating application performance. I used to configure MySQL to log into a file and then search the output to see what’s happening.