Performance Schema Overview
MariaDB starting with 5.5
The Performance Schema was introduced in MariaDB 5.5.
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The Performance Schema is a feature for monitoring server performance that was introduced in MariaDB 5.5.
Versions in MariaDB
| Performance Schema Version | Introduced |
|---|---|
| 5.6.38 | MariaDB 10.0.33 |
| 5.6.37 | MariaDB 10.1.26, MariaDB 10.0.32 |
| 5.6.36 | MariaDB 10.2.7, MariaDB 10.1.24, MariaDB 10.0.31 |
| 5.6.35 | MariaDB 10.1.21, MariaDB 10.0.29 |
| 5.6.33 | MariaDB 10.2.5, MariaDB 10.1.18, MariaDB 10.0.28 |
| 5.6.32 | MariaDB 10.1.17, MariaDB 10.0.27 |
| 5.6.31 | MariaDB 10.1.15, MariaDB 10.0.26 |
| 5.6.30 | MariaDB 10.1.14, MariaDB 10.0.25 |
| 5.6.29 | MariaDB 10.1.12, MariaDB 10.0.24 |
| 5.6.28 | MariaDB 10.0.23 |
| 5.6.27 | MariaDB 10.1.8 , MariaDB 10.0.22 |
| 5.6.26 | MariaDB 10.1.7, MariaDB 10.0.21 |
| 5.6.25 | MariaDB 10.1.6, MariaDB 10.0.20 |
| 5.6.24 | MariaDB 10.0.18 |
| 5.6.20 | MariaDB 10.0.13 |
| 5.6.17 | MariaDB 10.0.11 |
Introduction
It is implemented as a storage engine, and so will appear in the list of storage engines available.
SHOW ENGINES; +--------------------+---------+----------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | Engine | Support | Comment | Transactions | XA | Savepoints | +--------------------+---------+----------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+ | ... | | | | | | | PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA | YES | Performance Schema | NO | NO | NO | | ... | | | | | | +--------------------+---------+----------------------------------+--------------+------+------------+
However, PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA is not a regular storage engine for storing data, it's a mechanism for implementing the Performance Schema feature.
The storage engine contains a database called performance_schema, which in turn consists of a number of tables that can be queried with regular SQL statements, returning specific performance information.
USE performance_schema
SHOW TABLES; +----------------------------------------------------+ | Tables_in_performance_schema | +----------------------------------------------------+ | accounts | | cond_instances | | events_stages_current | | events_stages_history | | events_stages_history_long | | events_stages_summary_by_account_by_event_name | | events_stages_summary_by_host_by_event_name | | events_stages_summary_by_thread_by_event_name | | events_stages_summary_by_user_by_event_name | | events_stages_summary_global_by_event_name | | events_statements_current | | events_statements_history | | events_statements_history_long | | events_statements_summary_by_account_by_event_name | | events_statements_summary_by_digest | | events_statements_summary_by_host_by_event_name | | events_statements_summary_by_thread_by_event_name | | events_statements_summary_by_user_by_event_name | | events_statements_summary_global_by_event_name | | events_waits_current | | events_waits_history | | events_waits_history_long | | events_waits_summary_by_account_by_event_name | | events_waits_summary_by_host_by_event_name | | events_waits_summary_by_instance | | events_waits_summary_by_thread_by_event_name | | events_waits_summary_by_user_by_event_name | | events_waits_summary_global_by_event_name | | file_instances | | file_summary_by_event_name | | file_summary_by_instance | | host_cache | | hosts | | mutex_instances | | objects_summary_global_by_type | | performance_timers | | rwlock_instances | | session_account_connect_attrs | | session_connect_attrs | | setup_actors | | setup_consumers | | setup_instruments | | setup_objects | | setup_timers | | socket_instances | | socket_summary_by_event_name | | socket_summary_by_instance | | table_io_waits_summary_by_index_usage | | table_io_waits_summary_by_table | | table_lock_waits_summary_by_table | | threads | | users | +----------------------------------------------------+ 52 rows in set (0.00 sec)
See List of Performance Schema Tables for a full list and links to detailed descriptions of each table.
Activating the Performance Schema
Since MariaDB 10.0.12, the performance schema has been disabled by default for performance reasons. You can check its current status by looking at the value of the performance_schema system variable.
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'performance_schema'; +--------------------+-------+ | Variable_name | Value | +--------------------+-------+ | performance_schema | ON | +--------------------+-------+
The performance schema cannot be activated at runtime - it must be set when the server starts by adding the following line in your my.cnf configuration file.
performance_schema=on
Enabling performance schema
You need to set up all consumers (starting collection of data) and instrumentations (what to collect):
UPDATE performance_schema.setup_consumers SET ENABLED = 'YES'; UPDATE performance_schema.setup_instruments SET ENABLED = 'YES', TIMED = 'YES';
You can decide what to enable/disable with WHERE NAME like "%what_to_enable";
You can disable instrumentations by setting ENABLED to "NO".
You can also do this in your my.cnf file. The following enables all instrumentation of all stages (computation units) in MariaDB:
[mysqld] performance_schema=ON performance-schema-instrument='stage/%=ON' performance-schema-consumer-events-stages-current=ON performance-schema-consumer-events-stages-history=ON performance-schema-consumer-events-stages-history-long=ON
