Every once in awhile I do something that I think should be easy. It should be easy to turn on mysql query logging but it took me a little too long to find examples. So to save everyone time here is what I did.
I’m on a Mac so please adjust accordingly.
$ cd /etc $ sudo vi my.cnf
[mysqld] general_log=1 slow_query_log=1
# Define where the log file should be general_log_file=/tmp/mysql_general.log slow_query_log_file=/tmp/mysql_slow_queries.log
# Set this to the number of seconds a query must take to be considered "slow" long_query_time = 1
# Also, if you want to log all queries that don't use indexes: # log-queries-not-using-indexes
Now the log file is at /tmp/ so I’m going to tail it while I do some of my programming.
$ cd /tmp $ sudo tail -f mysql_general.log
