After you've installed the plugin, you need to enable it in MySQL. To do this log in to the MySQL console (as root) and execute the following: mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN pinba SONAME 'libpinba_engine.so'; We'd also suggest you to create a separate database, this way: mysql> CREATE DATABASE pinba; And then create the default tables: mysql -D pinba < %%DATADIR%%/default_tables.sql