Detecting MySQL loading I've seen strange and randomize increasing of the MySQL db loading but mytop did not help to sorted out with this issue. I'm not Mike Tyson and my reaction is more slow then CPU. If I don't catch this dynamically I will catch this statistically. Main idea Select active request by cron and write it ti file. After this statistic analyze for long period of time sort this problem out. Selecting information from MySQL Please add python mod MySQLdb and set correct credentials up. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 import os , MySQLdb def main (): """ checking process list and save it to file""" LOGFILENAME = 'dbusage.log' MYSQLUSERNAME = 'root' MYSQLPASSWORD = 'password' MYSQLHOST = 'localhost' logfile = open (LOGFILENAME, 'a' ) mydb = MySQLdb . connect(host = MYSQLHOST, ...