[technoweenie]

> Basically, what makes GitHub's process different to the decades-old "grep the slow query log and run an EXPLAIN"?

Sam's chatops tools opens this process up to a lot more people that otherwise wouldn't be comfortable logging on to servers to access the slow query logs (assuming that they even have access to the servers). It's a great way for app developers to level up their sql skills from other more experienced coworkers.

The impact of slow queries determines their priority. How frequent are the slow queries? Is it from a background job, or does it cause exceptions on important pages or API calls?

I don't know if this process is streets ahead of what other companies have, but it's made a hugely positive impact on our MySQL infrastructure.