MySql Not Logging Slow Queries

Question

I've set up slow query logging for MySQL 5.7:

[mysqld]
slow_query_log = 1
slow_query_log_file = /var/log/mysql/slow_query_log.log
long_query_time = 10
log_queries_not_using_indexes = 0

Then to test it, I've used MySQL Workbench and ran select sleep(12); and then verified that vim /var/log/mysql/slow_query_log.log shows that query.

So I thought everything was great. However, my slow_query_log seems to work only for my test queries such as select sleep(12); and not for real queries.

Below is an example. In some spots in my Laravel PHP app, I call \DB::enableQueryLog(); and then Log::debug(\DB::getQueryLog()); after running a query, and in those logs I see extremely slow queries (241 seconds!?), but I've never seen them in the slow_query_log.log.

array (
'query' => 'select * from `automations` where (`contact_id` = ? and `job_class_name` = ? and `execute_at` = ?) and `automations`.`deleted_at` is null limit 1',
'bindings' =>
array (
  0 => 23030,
  1 => 'App\\Jobs\\SubscribeToWebinarFollowupEmailSeries',
  2 => '2018-12-30 19:13:00',
),
'time' => 241.37,
),

How can I fix this?

_{P.S. I don't think my question is a duplicate of this one because in my tests the logging does work.}

Answer 1

My queries that I thought took 352 seconds really only took 0.352 seconds! 🤦‍♂️

https://laravel.io/forum/03-04-2014-what-time-format-does-dbgetquerylog-return showed me that Laravel's DB::getQueryLog() shows "time" as milliseconds (microseconds multiplied by 1000), not seconds.

What an embarrassing mistake (poor assumption). So I need to edit my 500-point bounty question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53469793/e-warning-error-while-sending-stmt-prepare-packet-pid/54374937?noredirect=1#comment95579631_53469793

Answer 2

What is the value of log_output? It should be "FILE" or "FILE,TABLE".

For that particular query, do you have a composite index on these:

INDEX(contract_id, job_class_name, execute_at, deleted_at)

(Any order will do.)

long_query_time = 10 hardly catches anything; I recommend lowering it.