Global statistics

Here is an easy but often-forgotten command to quickly see the status of your MariaDB instance:

> mysqladmin status
Uptime: 22  Threads: 1  Questions: 88  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 99  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 78  Queries per second avg: 4.000

Here, you've got one of the most important pieces of information. In this chapter, we'll see what all this information means.

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