MySQL Monitoring with Enterprise, etc.

[R Farris]

Newbie here.

I am trying to figure the best way to monitor. I have done a lot of searching and see that there are third party tools. This outfit has MySQL running on Windows Server. They are running MySQL 8 Enterprise.

It's a small outfit and I'm dipping my toes in the water and would like to help and figure out how to monitor, improve things.

1) Does Enterprise include some tools, including monitoring tools ? It kinda reads like it, but at the same time it doesn't seem to EXCPLICITLY say this. They do not have any tools installed.

2) Are there good, free tools that would work well ?

3) and/or inexpensive tool.

Thanks for your input.

I'd love to be able to discuss some things verbally with an experienced MySQL(8) DBA for pointers, etc.. I learn so much better from real example at least.