If you are a privileged user (i.e. root), you can use tcpdump on a database server to take a peek into a network stream and filter for packets that go to MySQL. Those packets contain queries. Here’s a quick one-liner :
# tcpdump -i eth0 -s 0 -l -w - dst port 3306 | strings | perl -e '
while(<>) { chomp; next if /^[^ ]+[ ]*$/;
if(/^(SELECT|UPDATE|DELETE|INSERT|SET|COMMIT|ROLLBACK|CREATE|DROP|ALTER)/i) {
if (defined $q) { print "$qn"; }
$q=$_;
} else {
$_ =~ s/^[ t]+//; $q.=" $_";
}
}'
Thanks to: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/11/07/poor-mans-query-logging/
Maatkit’s mk-query-digest now has built-in support for the MySQL protocol and can extract queries much more easily and accurately than this technique — and with timing information about the execution time, too.
Thanks Baron. Yes, if asked now, I would suggest the mk-query-digest option than using TCPDump.
- Ram
That’s pretty badass..
You are awesome.