Title: MariaDB Health Checks
Author: Andrew Hutchings
Published: <strong>April 3, 2023</strong>
Last modified: June 15, 2023

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# MariaDB Health Checks

 By [Andrew Hutchings](https://profiles.wordpress.org/l1nuxjedi/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mariadb-health-checks.1.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/mariadb-health-checks/)

## Description

MariaDB Health Checks helps you debug your MariaDB database with advanced information
from your database.

 * Shows relevant information about the Database, Logs, Locale, Connnections, Character
   Set and Collation, and Options.
 * Shows a graph of the MariaDB average execution time (7 days by default) and its
   data.
 * Allows enabling of MariaDB optimizer histograms for improved MariaDB performance.
 * Checks that your MariaDB version is still supported.

### Contributors

 * [Plugin contributors at GitHub](https://github.com/MariaDB/wordpress-mariadb-health-checks/graphs/contributors)

## Screenshots

[⌊Graph of MariaDB average execution time and number of queries⌉⌊Graph of MariaDB
average execution time and number of queries⌉[

Graph of MariaDB average execution time and number of queries

[⌊Graph of MariaDB Health Checks Panel⌉⌊Graph of MariaDB Health Checks Panel⌉[

Graph of MariaDB Health Checks Panel

## Installation

#### Automatic download

Visit the plugin section in your WordPress, search for [MariaDB Health Checks]; 
download and install the plugin.

#### Manual download

Extract the contents of the ZIP and upload the contents to the `/wp-content/plugins/
mariadb-health-checks/` directory. Once uploaded, it will appear in your plugin 
list.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Handy for MariaDB users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/handy-for-mariadb-users/)󠁿

 [Otto Kekäläinen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/ottok/) May 7, 2025

The database is often the bottleneck for WordPress, so using this plugin to quickly
identify what is going on with the database is very handy!

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## Contributors & Developers

“MariaDB Health Checks” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Andrew Hutchings ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/l1nuxjedi/)
 *   [ darkmarsuk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/darkmarsuk/)
 *   [ Javier Casares ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/javiercasares/)

“MariaDB Health Checks” has been translated into 3 locales. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mariadb-health-checks/contributors)
for their contributions.

[Translate “MariaDB Health Checks” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mariadb-health-checks)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/mariadb-health-checks/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/mariadb-health-checks/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mariadb-health-checks/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/mariadb-health-checks/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1.0

The “I did way too much hacking at WordCamp” release 🙂

_Note_: graph data from earlier versions will be rendered incorrectly in this version.
But legacy data should roll-over after 24 hours.

 * Make graph data easier to understand
 * Add more useful metrics to the graph
 * Fix version check for MariaDB < 10.2
 * Drop plugin’s tables on uninstall
 * Use SAVEQUERIES data if exists

#### 1.0.3

 * Fix DB error that can happen on install
 * Add 11.0 to MariaDB versions table
 * Make MariaDB versions table update on upgrade or activation

#### 1.0.2

 * Fix division by zero bug
 * Fix query result double-free bug
 * Update translations
 * Add package type

#### 1.0.1

 * Graph data cleanup moved to cron
 * Suppressed DB error that doesn’t need to go to log (as we catch and use it anyway)
 * Fix project URLs
 * Add GitHub Plugin URL
 * Fix issues found by WordPress review team

#### 1.0.0

 * First Release
 * Shows relevant information about the Database.
 * Shows a Histogram and its data.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.0**
 *  Last updated **3 years ago**
 *  Active installations **100+**
 *  WordPress version ** 5.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.2.9**
 *  PHP version ** 7.2 or higher **
 *  Languages
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/), [Japanese](https://ja.wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/),
   [Spanish (Chile)](https://cl.wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/), and
   [Spanish (Spain)](https://es.wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/).
 *  [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mariadb-health-checks)
 * Tags
 * [mariadb](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/mariadb/)[performance](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/performance/)
   [site health](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/site-health/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/mariadb-health-checks/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Andrew Hutchings ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/l1nuxjedi/)
 *   [ darkmarsuk ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/darkmarsuk/)
 *   [ Javier Casares ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/javiercasares/)

## Support

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