The Ultimate Guide to High Availability with MariaDB
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HEARTBEAT_LOG_EVENT

This event does not appear in the binary log. It's only sent over the network by a master to a slave server to let it know that the master is still alive, and is only sent when the master has no binlog events to send to slave servers.

This event is never written into the binary log file

  • Timestamp is set to 0
  • Next position is set to last pos
  • Type is set to HEARTBEAT_EVENT (0x1b)

Fields

Example of Transmission (Without CRC32)

T 127.0.0.1:8808 -> 127.0.0.1:57157 [AP]
  23 00 00 04 00 00 00 00    00 1b 67 2b 00 00 22 00    '.........g+..&.
  00 00 ed 01 00 00 20 00    66 6f 6f 2d 62 69 6e 2e    ...... .log-bin.
  31 30 30 30 31 33 39                                  1000139

Network Replication protocol, 5 bytes

  • packet size [3] = 23 00 00 => 00 00 23 => 35 (ok byte + event size)
  • pkt sequence [1] = 04
  • OK indicator [1] = 0 (OK)

Heartbeat event

  • Timestamp [4] = 00 00 00 00 => 0
  • Event Type [1] = 1b => 27
  • Server_id [4] = 67 2b 00 00 => 00 00 2b 67 => 111111
  • Event Size [4] = 22 00 00 00 => 00 00 00 26 => 34 (header + data)
  • Next_pos [4] = ed 01 00 00 => 00 00 01 ed => 493
  • Flags [2] == 20 00 => 00 20 = > 32
Content, string<EOF>
  • log-bin.1000139
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