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title: Setting up MySQL
description: Setting up Database Monitoring on a MySQL database
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# Setting up MySQL

### MySQL versions supported{% #mysql-versions-supported %}

| Self-hosted   | Amazon RDS | Amazon Aurora                 | Google Cloud SQL with >16GB RAM | Azure | Note |
| ------------- | ---------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------- | ----- | ---- |
| MySQL 5.6     | yes        | yes                           | yes                             | yes   |
| MySQL 5.7     | yes        | yes                           | yes                             | yes   | yes  |
| MySQL 8.0     | yes        | yes                           | yes                             | yes   | yes  |
| MySQL 9       | yes        | Requires Datadog Agent 7.84+. |
| MariaDB 10.5  | yes        | yes                           |
| MariaDB 10.6  | yes        | yes                           |
| MariaDB 10.11 | yes        | yes                           |
| MariaDB 11.4  | yes        |
| MariaDB 12    | yes        | Requires Datadog Agent 7.84+. |
| MariaDB 13    | yes        | Requires Datadog Agent 7.84+. |

**Note**: If you use MariaDB, see [Setting Up MariaDB](https://docs.datadoghq.com/database_monitoring/setup_mariadb.md) instead.

For setup instructions, select your hosting type:

- [Self-hosted](https://docs.datadoghq.com/database_monitoring/setup_mysql/selfhosted.md)
- [rds](https://docs.datadoghq.com/database_monitoring/setup_mysql/rds.md)
- [aurora](https://docs.datadoghq.com/database_monitoring/setup_mysql/aurora.md)
- [gcsql](https://docs.datadoghq.com/database_monitoring/setup_mysql/gcsql.md)
- [azure](https://docs.datadoghq.com/database_monitoring/setup_mysql/azure.md)