# Grafana monitoring MySQL/Postgres database **URL:** \ **Category:** MySQL\ **Tags:** postgres, mysql\ **Created:** [March 28, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-monitoring-mysql-postgres-database/313 "2017-03-28T12:56:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![developer11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@developer11](https://community.grafana.com/u/developer11)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-monitoring-mysql-postgres-database/313/1 "2017-03-28T12:56:08Z")
Is it possible and if yes, how to configure Grafana for this? ---
**Author:** ![torkel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/grafana/user_avatar/community.grafana.com/torkel/32/20_2.png) [@torkel](https://community.grafana.com/u/torkel)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-monitoring-mysql-postgres-database/313/2 "2017-03-28T14:06:40Z")
Yes, there are many ways to monitor these databases. First you need a collector to gather metrics about your database and store those metrics in a time series database. Then you can visualize and alert on this metrics in Grafana. Here are a couple of ready made dashboards for mysql. You just need to install a metric collector (for example node exporter for Prometheus) > **[Grafana Dashboards - discover and share dashboards for Grafana.](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards?search=mysql)** > > Grafana.com provides a central repository where the community can come together to discover and share dashboards. ---
**Author:** ![anon80964540](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbe5ce/32.png) [@anon80964540](https://community.grafana.com/u/anon80964540)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2021, 4:02pm UTC](https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-monitoring-mysql-postgres-database/313/3 "2021-01-13T16:02:13Z")