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PolarDB:Monitor storage resources

Last Updated:Apr 01, 2026

The Storage Monitoring page in the PolarDB for Xscale console provides real-time metrics for your PolarDB-X 2.0 instance. Use this page to track disk usage, query throughput, InnoDB engine behavior, and replication health — at the instance, node, or cluster level — so you can detect and respond to resource bottlenecks before they affect availability.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

View storage metrics

  1. Log on to the PolarDB for Xscale console.

  2. In the top navigation bar, select the region where your instance is located.

  3. On the Instances page, click the PolarDB-X 2.0 tab.

  4. Find your instance and click its ID.

  5. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Monitoring and alarm > Storage Monitoring.

  6. On the Storage Monitoring page, select the scope and time range for the metrics you want to view:

    • Instance tab: Select a time range and click OK

    • Node tab: Select a data node from the drop-down list, select a time range, and click OK

    • Cluster tab: Select a cluster from the drop-down list, select a time range, and click OK

Available metrics

The following tables describe all metrics on the Storage Monitoring page, grouped by category.

Resource utilization

Metric Description
CPU Average CPU utilization of data nodes in the instance
Memory Memory usage of data nodes in the instance
Disk space Total used storage space of the instance (Unit: MB), broken down into: data (Unit: MB), logs (Unit: MB), temporary files (Unit: MB), and other items such as system files (Unit: MB)
Network traffic Average inbound traffic per second; average outbound traffic per second
IOPS Total reads and writes per second on the data node, including reads per second and writes per second separately
IOPS usage IOPS usage as a percentage value

Connections and throughput

Metric Description
Number of connections Number of active sessions (active connections); total number of sessions (total connections)
QPS Queries per second on the data node
TPS Transactions per second on the data node
Slow SQL queries Average number of slow SQL queries processed per second
Operations DELETE, INSERT, INSERT_SELECT, REPLACE, REPLACE_SELECT, SELECT, and UPDATE queries per second on the data node

InnoDB internals

Metric Description
Memory buffer pool Dirty ratio of the buffer pool; read hit rate of the buffer pool; space usage of the buffer pool
Number of InnoDB reads and writes Average data written to InnoDB per second (Unit: KB); average data read from InnoDB per second (Unit: KB)
Number of InnoDB buffer pool requests Read requests received by the buffer pool per second; write requests received by the buffer pool per second
InnoDB log writing Average log write requests per second; average physical writes to log files per second; average fsync() operations on log files per second
Temporary table Temporary tables created on the data node per second

Replication

Metric Description
Replication delay of the secondary database Replication delay of the secondary instance. Unit: seconds