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PolarDB:Advanced monitoring

Last Updated:Sep 17, 2026

PolarDB for MySQL provides advanced monitoring features. Advanced monitoring supports a wide range of performance metrics, custom charts, and powerful diagnostic capabilities. It can detect events that occur on your database cluster in real time, perform automatic diagnosis, and generate root cause analysis and recommendations. You can also select a specific time range to trigger on-demand diagnosis and understand the running status of your database cluster.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the PolarDB console. In the left-side navigation pane, click Clusters, select the region where the cluster is deployed, and then click the ID of the target cluster to go to the cluster details page.

  2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Performance Monitoring, and then click the Advanced Monitoring tab.

  3. On the Advanced Monitoring page, select a node to view its performance trend charts for the last 1 hour, last 1 day, or last 7 days.

    Note

    You can also click Monitoring Dashboard to monitor the health status of all database instances under your account in the DAS console.

Performance metrics

Advanced monitoring supports the following performance metrics.

Note

You can click Metric icon next to a metric to view its description.

Category

Metric

Description

Basic Metrics

CPU Usage

mem_usage

The memory usage of the cluster as a percentage of the total operating system memory. Unit: percentage.

Memory Utilization

cpu_usage

The CPU utilization of the service process. A value of 200% indicates that 2 CPU cores are used. Unit: percentage.

Network Traffic

input_traffic

The average number of bytes received from all clients per second. Unit: KB.

output_traffic

The average number of bytes sent to all clients per second. Unit: KB.

IOPS Usage

iops_usage

The IOPS usage. Unit: percentage.

Storage Space Usage

binlog_size

The storage space occupied by binary logs. Unit: MB.

data_size

The storage space occupied by data. Unit: MB.

compressed_data_size

The storage space occupied by compressed tables. Unit: MB.

log_size

The storage space occupied by logs. Unit: MB.

other_log_size

The size of other logs. Unit: MB.

redolog_size

The storage space occupied by redo logs. Unit: MB.

sys_dir_size

The storage space occupied by the system. Unit: MB.

tmp_dir_size

The storage space occupied by temporary files. Unit: MB.

undolog_size

The storage space used by undo logs. Unit: MB.

IOPS

iops

The total IOPS. Unit: counts/s.

iops_r

The read IOPS. Unit: counts/s.

io_throughput

The total I/O throughput. Unit: MB.

io_throughput_r

The read I/O throughput. Unit: MB.

io_throughput_w

The write I/O throughput. Unit: MB.

iops_w

The write IOPS. Unit: counts/s.

Database Metrics

QPS/TPS

qps

The number of queries per second. Formula: Queries / Uptime. Unit: queries/s.

tps

The number of transactions per second. Formula: (Com_commit + Com_rollback) / Uptime. Unit: transactions/s.

mps

The number of operations per second. Unit: operations/s.

Session Connection

active_session

The number of active sessions. Unit: count.

total_session

The total number of sessions. Unit: count.

Number of executions

com_select

The average number of SELECT statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

com_insert

The average number of INSERT statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

com_update

The average number of UPDATE statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

com_delete

The average number of DELETE statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

com_replace

The average number of REPLACE statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

com_insert_select

The average number of INSERT_SELECT statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

com_replace_select

The average number of REPLACE_SELECT statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

com_delete_multi

The average number of Multi-DELETE statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

com_update_multi

The average number of Multi-UPDATE statements executed per second. Unit: statements/s.

Temporary table

created_tmp_disk_tables

The number of temporary tables created per second. Unit: tables/s.

Number of Blocking Connections

mdl_lock_session

The number of connections blocked by MDL locks. Unit: count.

other_lock_session

The number of connections blocked by other locks. Unit: count.

Thread Pool

thread_pool_running_threads

The number of running threads in the thread pool. Unit: count.

tp_high_queue_count

The number of requests in the high-priority queue of the thread pool. Unit: count.

tp_low_queue_count

The number of requests in the low-priority queue of the thread pool. Unit: count.

tp_thread_count

The total number of threads in the thread pool. Unit: count.

Innodb history transaction list length

Innodb_trx_history_list_len

The length of the historical transaction list. Unit: count.

Com_stmt status

Com_stmt_close

The cumulative number of Com_stmt_close executions. Unit: executions/s.

Com_stmt_execute

The cumulative number of Com_stmt_execute executions. Unit: executions/s.

Com_stmt_fetch

The cumulative number of Com_stmt_fetch executions. Unit: executions/s.

Com_stmt_prepare

The cumulative number of Com_stmt_prepare executions. Unit: executions/s.

Com_stmt_reprepare

The cumulative number of Com_stmt_reprepare executions. Unit: executions/s.

Com_stmt_reset

The cumulative number of Com_stmt_reset executions. Unit: executions/s.

Com_stmt_send_long_data

The cumulative number of Com_stmt_send_long_data executions. Unit: executions/s.

Prepared_stmt_count

The current number of prepared statements. Unit: count.

InnoDB storage engine

InnoDB Row Operations

innodb_rows_deleted

The average number of rows deleted from InnoDB tables per second. Unit: rows.

innodb_rows_inserted

The average number of rows inserted into InnoDB tables per second. Unit: rows.

innodb_rows_read

The average number of rows read from InnoDB tables per second. Unit: rows.

innodb_rows_updated

The average number of rows updated in InnoDB tables per second. Unit: rows.

InnoDB line lock

innodb_row_lock_current_waits

The current number of row lock waits on InnoDB tables. Unit: waits/s.

innodb_row_lock_time

The total lock time since the system started. Unit: milliseconds.

innodb_row_lock_time_avg

The average row lock wait time on InnoDB tables. Unit: milliseconds.

innodb_row_lock_time_ps

The row lock wait time per second on InnoDB tables. Unit: milliseconds.

innodb_row_lock_waits

The number of row lock waits per second on InnoDB tables. Unit: waits/s.

innodb_row_lock_waits_ps

The number of row lock waits per second on InnoDB tables. Unit: waits/s.

InnoDB Buffer Pool hit rate

innodb_buffer_dirty_ratio

The ratio of dirty pages in the InnoDB buffer pool. Formula: Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_dirty / Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data × 100%. Unit: percentage.

innodb_buffer_read_hit

The read cache hit ratio of the InnoDB buffer pool. Formula: (Innodb_buffer_pool_read_requests - Innodb_buffer_pool_reads) / Innodb_buffer_pool_read_requests × 100%. Unit: percentage.

innodb_buffer_use_ratio

The InnoDB buffer pool usage. Formula: innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data / (innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data + innodb_buffer_pool_pages_free) × 100%. Unit: percentage.

InnoDB Buffer Pool requests

innodb_buffer_pool_read_requests

The number of buffer pool read requests per second. Unit: requests/s.

innodb_buffer_pool_write_requests

The number of buffer pool write requests per second. Unit: requests/s.

Innodb history transaction list length

Innodb_trx_history_list_len

The length of the historical transaction list. Unit: count.

InnoDB Data read and write throughput

innodb_data_read

The average number of bytes read from InnoDB per second. Unit: B.

innodb_data_written

The average number of bytes written to InnoDB per second. Unit: B.

InnoDB Redo writes per second

Innodb_os_log_written

The average amount of redo log data written to InnoDB per second. Unit: B.

InnoDB Redo write times

innodb_log_write_requests

The number of physical log writes per second. Unit: writes/s.

innodb_os_log_fsyncs

The number of fsync operations per second. Unit: operations/s.

Replication

Replication Latency

Replica_lag_ms

The replication latency. Unit: milliseconds.