DataDog/dd-agent — pull request #590 by micktwomey (2013-07-24 17:15:25+00:00)
Title: Allow MySQL check configuration via a mysql config file

For more complex configuration (e.g. specifying SSL certificates) it's useful to use a mysql.cnf instead of specifying flags by hand.

For example I have a config like this:

```
[client]
default-character-set=utf8
database=dbname
user=username
password="password"
host=hostname.example.com
ssl-ca=/path/to/mysql-ssl-ca-cert.pem
```

I can then run the check using:

```
init_config:

instances:
- defaults_file: /path/to/my.cnf
```

This (for example) allows datadog to collect metrics on externally hosted mysql instances over SSL.