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MySQL Dashboard

This dashboard provides comprehensive monitoring of MySQL database performance and resource utilization, offering detailed visibility into connections, locks, buffer pool operations, table I/O events, and various database metrics.

📝 Note

To use this dashboard, you need to set up the data source and send telemetry to SigNoz. Follow the MySQL Metrics guide to get started.

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MySQL Dashboard
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What This Dashboard Monitors

This dashboard tracks essential MySQL metrics to help you:

  • Monitor Connection Health: Track database connections and connection errors
  • Analyze Lock Performance: Monitor MySQL locks and row-level locking behavior
  • Track Buffer Pool Usage: Analyze InnoDB buffer pool efficiency and page management
  • Monitor Table I/O Operations: Track table-level I/O wait events and performance
  • Analyze Resource Utilization: Monitor threads, handlers, and prepared statements
  • Database Performance Optimization: Identify bottlenecks and optimize database operations

Metrics Included

Connection Metrics

  • Connection/Errors: Shows database connection count and connection errors over time

Performance Metrics

  • Count by Handlers: Shows MySQL handler operations count by type over time
  • Row Operations: Shows row-level operations (read, insert, delete, update) over time
  • Count of Operations: Shows count of database operations by operation type

Lock Metrics

  • MySQL Locks: Shows MySQL lock types (immediate, waited) over time
  • Row Locks: Shows InnoDB row lock operations (waits, time) over time

Resource Metrics

  • Open Resources Count: Shows count of open MySQL resources by type over time
  • Thread Type Count: Shows MySQL thread counts by thread type (running, connected, created, cached)
  • Prepared Statement Count: Shows prepared statement counts by command type

Storage Metrics

  • InnoDB Log Operations: Shows InnoDB log operations count by operation type

Buffer Pool Metrics

  • Buffer Pool Usage by Status: Shows buffer pool memory usage by status (clean, dirty) over time
  • Data Pages by Status: Shows buffer pool data pages by status (clean, dirty) over time
  • Buffer Pool Pages by Kind: Shows buffer pool pages count by page kind over time
  • Total Buffer Pool Page Flushes: Shows total count of buffer pool page flush operations over time

Table I/O Metrics

  • Count of Table I/O Wait Events: Shows count of table I/O wait events by table
  • Table I/O Wait Events Time: Shows time spent in table I/O wait events by table

Dashboard Variables

This dashboard includes pre-configured variables for filtering:

  • deployment.environment: Filter by deployment environment
  • mysql.instance.endpoint: Filter by specific MySQL instance endpoints

Last updated: November 25, 2025

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