How to Diagnose and Resolve MySQL CPU Spikes: A Complete Step‑by‑Step Guide
This guide walks you through identifying why MySQL CPU usage jumps, from confirming the MySQL process consumes CPU to checking connection counts, slow queries, lock waits, configuration settings, and business‑level traffic, and then provides short‑term mitigations and long‑term solutions such as read‑write splitting, sharding, and caching.
