Install MySQL from [here](https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/). For illustrative purposes, we have set the root password as `password` and created a database called `miniodb` to store the events.
Install MySQL from [here](https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/). To publish Minio events, you'll need `JSON` support in MySQL, available on MySQL `5.7.8` and above. We tested this setup on MySQL `5.7.17`. For illustrative purposes, we have set the root password as `password` and created a database called `miniodb` to store the events.
This notification target supports two formats: _namespace_ and _access_.