MySQL show syntax and server status variables

SHOW Syntax

SHOW has many forms that provide information about databases, tables, columns, or status information about the server. This section describes those following:

SHOW {BINARY | MASTER} LOGS
SHOW BINLOG EVENTS [IN 'log_name'] [FROM pos] [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]
SHOW CHARACTER SET [like_or_where]
SHOW COLLATION [like_or_where]
SHOW [FULL] COLUMNS FROM tbl_name [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW CREATE DATABASE db_name
SHOW CREATE EVENT event_name
SHOW CREATE FUNCTION func_name
SHOW CREATE PROCEDURE proc_name
SHOW CREATE TABLE tbl_name
SHOW CREATE TRIGGER trigger_name
SHOW CREATE VIEW view_name
SHOW DATABASES [like_or_where]
SHOW ENGINE engine_name {STATUS | MUTEX}
SHOW [STORAGE] ENGINES
SHOW ERRORS [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]
SHOW EVENTS
SHOW FUNCTION CODE func_name
SHOW FUNCTION STATUS [like_or_where]
SHOW GRANTS FOR user
SHOW INDEX FROM tbl_name [FROM db_name]
SHOW MASTER STATUS
SHOW OPEN TABLES [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW PLUGINS
SHOW PROCEDURE CODE proc_name
SHOW PROCEDURE STATUS [like_or_where]
SHOW PRIVILEGES
SHOW [FULL] PROCESSLIST
SHOW PROFILE [types] [FOR QUERY n] [OFFSET n] [LIMIT n]
SHOW PROFILES
SHOW RELAYLOG EVENTS [IN 'log_name'] [FROM pos] [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]
SHOW SLAVE HOSTS
SHOW SLAVE STATUS [FOR CHANNEL channel]
SHOW [GLOBAL | SESSION] STATUS [like_or_where]
SHOW TABLE STATUS [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW [FULL] TABLES [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW TRIGGERS [FROM db_name] [like_or_where]
SHOW [GLOBAL | SESSION] VARIABLES [like_or_where]
SHOW WARNINGS [LIMIT [offset,] row_count]

like_or_where:
    LIKE 'pattern'
  | WHERE expr

If the syntax for a given SHOW statement includes a LIKE '*pattern*' part, '*pattern*' is a string that can contain the SQL % and _ wildcard characters. The pattern is useful for restricting statement output to matching values.

Several SHOW statements also accept a WHERE clause that provides more flexibility in specifying which rows to display.

In addition, you can work in SQL with results from queries on tables in the INFORMATION_SCHEMA database, which you cannot easily do with results from SHOW statements.

SHOW STATUS Syntax

SHOW [GLOBAL | SESSION] STATUS
    [LIKE 'pattern' | WHERE expr]

SHOW STATUS provides server status information. This statement does not require any privilege. It requires only the ability to connect to the server.

Status variable information is also available from these sources:

• Performance Schema tables.
• The mysqladmin extended-status command.

For SHOW STATUS, a LIKE clause, if present, indicates which variable names to match. A WHERE clause can be given to select rows using more general conditions.

SHOW STATUS accepts an optional GLOBAL or SESSION variable scope modifier:

• With a GLOBAL modifier, the statement displays the global status values. A global status variable may represent status for some aspect of the server itself (for example, Aborted_connects), or the aggregated status over all connections to MySQL (for example, Bytes_received and Bytes_sent). If a variable has no global value, the session value is displayed.
• With a SESSION modifier, the statement displays the status variable values for the current connection. If a variable has no session value, the global value is displayed. LOCAL is a synonym for SESSION.
• If no modifier is present, the default is SESSION.

Each invocation of the SHOW STATUS statement uses an internal temporary table and increments the globalCreated_tmp_tables value.

Partial output is shown here. The list of names and values may differ for your server.

mysql> SHOW STATUS;
+--------------------------+------------+
| Variable_name            | Value      |
+--------------------------+------------+
| Aborted_clients          | 0          |
| Aborted_connects         | 0          |
| Bytes_received           | 155372598  |
| Bytes_sent               | 1176560426 |
| Connections              | 30023      |
| Created_tmp_disk_tables  | 0          |
| Created_tmp_tables       | 8340       |
| Created_tmp_files        | 60         |
...
| Open_tables              | 1          |
| Open_files               | 2          |
| Open_streams             | 0          |
| Opened_tables            | 44600      |
| Questions                | 2026873    |
...
| Table_locks_immediate    | 1920382    |
| Table_locks_waited       | 0          |
| Threads_cached           | 0          |
| Threads_created          | 30022      |
| Threads_connected        | 1          |
| Threads_running          | 1          |
| Uptime                   | 80380      |
+--------------------------+------------+

With a LIKE clause, the statement displays only rows for those variables with names that match the pattern:

mysql> SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Key%';
+--------------------+----------+
| Variable_name      | Value    |
+--------------------+----------+
| Key_blocks_used    | 14955    |
| Key_read_requests  | 96854827 |
| Key_reads          | 162040   |
| Key_write_requests | 7589728  |
| Key_writes         | 3813196  |
+--------------------+----------+

Performance Schema Status Variable Tables

The MySQL server maintains many status variables that provide information about its operation. Status variable information is available in these Performance Schema tables:

• global_status: Global status variables. An application that wants only global values should use this table.
• session_status: Status variables for the current session. An application that wants all status variable values for its own session should use this table. It includes the session variables for its session, as well as the values of global variables that have no session counterpart.
• status_by_thread: Session status variables for each active session. An application that wants to know the session variable values for specific sessions should use this table. It includes session variables only, identified by thread ID.

There are also summary tables that provide status variable information aggregated by account, host name, and user name.

The session variable tables (session_status, status_by_thread) contain information only for active sessions, not terminated sessions.

The Performance Schema collects statistics for global status variables only for threads for which the INSTRUMENTEDvalue is YES in the threads table. Statistics for session status variables are always collected, regardless of the INSTRUMENTED value.

The Performance Schema does not collect statistics for Com_*xxx* status variables in the status variable tables. To obtain global and per-session statement execution counts, use theevents_statements_summary_global_by_event_name andevents_statements_summary_by_thread_by_event_name tables, respectively. For example:

SELECT EVENT_NAME, COUNT_STAR
FROM performance_schema.events_statements_summary_global_by_event_name
WHERE EVENT_NAME LIKE 'statement/sql/%';

The global_status and session_status tables have these columns:

• VARIABLE_NAME

  The status variable name.

• VARIABLE_VALUE

  The status variable value. For global_status, this column contains the global value. For session_status, this column contains the variable value for the current session.

The global_status and session_status tables have these indexes:

• Primary key on (VARIABLE_NAME)

The status_by_thread table contains the status of each active thread. It has these columns:

• THREAD_ID

  The thread identifier of the session in which the status variable is defined.

• VARIABLE_NAME

  The status variable name.

• VARIABLE_VALUE

  The session variable value for the session named by the THREAD_ID column.

The status_by_thread table has these indexes:

• Primary key on (THREAD_ID, VARIABLE_NAME)

The status_by_thread table contains status variable information only about foreground threads. If theperformance_schema_max_thread_instances system variable is not autoscaled (signified by a value of −1) and the maximum permitted number of instrumented thread objects is not greater than the number of background threads, the table will be empty.

The Performance Schema supports TRUNCATE TABLE for status variable tables as follows:

• global_status: Resets thread, account, host, and user status. Resets global status variables except those that the server never resets.

• session_status: Not supported.

• status_by_thread: Aggregates status for all threads to the global status and account status, then resets thread status. If account statistics are not collected, the session status is added to host and user status, if host and user status are collected.

  Account, host, and user statistics are not collected if the performance_schema_accounts_size,performance_schema_hosts_size, and performance_schema_users_size system variables, respectively, are set to 0.

FLUSH STATUS adds the session status from all active sessions to the global status variables, resets the status of all active sessions, and resets account, host, and user status values aggregated from disconnected sessions.

Server Status Variables

The MySQL server maintains many status variables that provide information about its operation. You can view these variables and their values by using the SHOW [GLOBAL | SESSION] STATUS statement. The optional GLOBAL keyword aggregates the values over all connections, and SESSIONshows the values for the current connection.

mysql> SHOW GLOBAL STATUS;
+-----------------------------------+------------+
| Variable_name                     | Value      |
+-----------------------------------+------------+
| Aborted_clients                   | 0          |
| Aborted_connects                  | 0          |
| Bytes_received                    | 155372598  |
| Bytes_sent                        | 1176560426 |
...
| Connections                       | 30023      |
| Created_tmp_disk_tables           | 0          |
| Created_tmp_files                 | 3          |
| Created_tmp_tables                | 2          |
...
| Threads_created                   | 217        |
| Threads_running                   | 88         |
| Uptime                            | 1389872    |
+-----------------------------------+------------+

Many status variables are reset to 0 by the FLUSH STATUS statement.

This section provides a description of each status variable. For a status variable summary.

The status variables have the following meanings.

• Aborted_clients

  The number of connections that were aborted because the client died without closing the connection properly.

• Aborted_connects

  The number of failed attempts to connect to the MySQL server.

  For additional connection-related information, check the Connection_errors_*xxx* status variables and thehost_cache table.

• Binlog_cache_disk_use

  The number of transactions that used the temporary binary log cache but that exceeded the value ofbinlog_cache_size and used a temporary file to store statements from the transaction.

  The number of nontransactional statements that caused the binary log transaction cache to be written to disk is tracked separately in the Binlog_stmt_cache_disk_use status variable.

• Acl_cache_items_count

  The number of cached privilege objects. Each object is the privilege combination of a user and its active roles.

• Binlog_cache_use

  The number of transactions that used the binary log cache.

• Binlog_stmt_cache_disk_use

  The number of nontransaction statements that used the binary log statement cache but that exceeded the value ofbinlog_stmt_cache_size and used a temporary file to store those statements.

• Binlog_stmt_cache_use

  The number of nontransactional statements that used the binary log statement cache.

• Bytes_received

  The number of bytes received from all clients.

• Bytes_sent

  The number of bytes sent to all clients.

• Caching_sha2_password_rsa_public_key

  The public key used by the caching_sha2_password authentication plugin for RSA key pair-based password exchange. The value is nonempty only if the server successfully initializes the private and public keys in the files named by the caching_sha2_password_private_key_path and caching_sha2_password_public_key_pathsystem variables. The value of Caching_sha2_password_rsa_public_key comes from the latter file.

• Com_*xxx*

  The Com_*xxx* statement counter variables indicate the number of times each xxx statement has been executed. There is one status variable for each type of statement. For example, Com_delete and Com_update count DELETEand UPDATE statements, respectively. Com_delete_multi and Com_update_multi are similar but apply to DELETEand UPDATE statements that use multiple-table syntax.

  The discussion at the beginning of this section indicates how to relate these statement-counting status variables to other such variables.

  All of the Com_stmt_*xxx* variables are increased even if a prepared statement argument is unknown or an error occurred during execution. In other words, their values correspond to the number of requests issued, not to the number of requests successfully completed.

  The Com_stmt_*xxx* status variables are as follows:

  • Com_stmt_prepare
  • Com_stmt_execute
  • Com_stmt_fetch
  • Com_stmt_send_long_data
  • Com_stmt_reset
  • Com_stmt_close

  Those variables stand for prepared statement commands. Their names refer to the COM_*xxx* command set used in the network layer. In other words, their values increase whenever prepared statement API calls such asmysql_stmt_prepare(), mysql_stmt_execute(), and so forth are executed. However, Com_stmt_prepare,Com_stmt_execute and Com_stmt_close also increase for PREPARE, EXECUTE, or DEALLOCATE PREPARE, respectively. Additionally, the values of the older statement counter variables Com_prepare_sql,Com_execute_sql, and Com_dealloc_sql increase for the PREPARE, EXECUTE, and DEALLOCATE PREPAREstatements. Com_stmt_fetch stands for the total number of network round-trips issued when fetching from cursors.

  Com_stmt_reprepare indicates the number of times statements were automatically reprepared by the server, for example, after metadata changes to tables or views referred to by the statement. A reprepare operation incrementsCom_stmt_reprepare, and also Com_stmt_prepare.

  Com_explain_other indicates the number of EXPLAIN FOR CONNECTION statements executed.

  Com_change_repl_filter indicates the number of CHANGE REPLICATION FILTER statements executed.

• Compression

  Whether the client connection uses compression in the client/server protocol.

  As of MySQL 8.0.18, this status variable is deprecated. It will be removed in a future MySQL version. See Legacy Connection Compression Configuration.

• Compression_algorithm

  The name of the compression algorithm in use for the current connection to the server. The value can be any algorithm permitted in the value of the protocol_compression_algorithms system variable. For example, the value is uncompressed if the connection does not use compression, or zlib if the connection uses the zlibalgorithm.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

• Compression_level

  The compression level in use for the current connection to the server. The value is 6 for zlib connections (the default zlib algorithm compression level), 1 to 22 for zstd connections, and 0 for uncompressed connections.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.18.

• Connection_errors_*xxx*

  These variables provide information about errors that occur during the client connection process. They are global only and represent error counts aggregated across connections from all hosts. These variables track errors not accounted for by the host cache, such as errors that are not associated with TCP connections, occur very early in the connection process (even before an IP address is known), or are not specific to any particular IP address (such as out-of-memory conditions).

  • Connection_errors_accept

    The number of errors that occurred during calls to accept() on the listening port.

  • Connection_errors_internal

    The number of connections refused due to internal errors in the server, such as failure to start a new thread or an out-of-memory condition.

  • Connection_errors_max_connections

    The number of connections refused because the server max_connections limit was reached.

  • Connection_errors_peer_address

    The number of errors that occurred while searching for connecting client IP addresses.

  • Connection_errors_select

    The number of errors that occurred during calls to select() or poll() on the listening port. (Failure of this operation does not necessarily means a client connection was rejected.)

  • Connection_errors_tcpwrap

    The number of connections refused by the libwrap library.

• Connections

  The number of connection attempts (successful or not) to the MySQL server.

• Created_tmp_disk_tables

  The number of internal on-disk temporary tables created by the server while executing statements.

  If an internal temporary table is created initially as an in-memory table but becomes too large, MySQL automatically converts it to an on-disk table. The maximum size for in-memory temporary tables is the minimum of thetmp_table_size and max_heap_table_size values. If Created_tmp_disk_tables is large, you may want to increase the tmp_table_size or max_heap_table_size value to lessen the likelihood that internal temporary tables in memory will be converted to on-disk tables.

  You can compare the number of internal on-disk temporary tables created to the total number of internal temporary tables created by comparing the values of the Created_tmp_disk_tables and Created_tmp_tables variables.

• Created_tmp_files

  How many temporary files mysqld has created.

• Created_tmp_tables

  The number of internal temporary tables created by the server while executing statements.

  You can compare the number of internal on-disk temporary tables created to the total number of internal temporary tables created by comparing the values of the Created_tmp_disk_tables and Created_tmp_tables variables.

  Each invocation of the SHOW STATUS statement uses an internal temporary table and increments the globalCreated_tmp_tables value.

• Current_tls_ca

  The active ssl_ca value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. This context value may differ from the current ssl_ca system variable value if the system variable has been changed but ALTER INSTANCE RELOAD TLS has not subsequently been executed to reconfigure the SSL context from the context-related system variable values and update the corresponding status variables. (This potential difference in values applies to each corresponding pair of context-related system and status variables.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Current_tls_capath

  The active ssl_capath value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. For notes about the relationship between this status variable and its corresponding system variable, see the description ofCurrent_tls_ca.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Current_tls_cert

  The active ssl_cert value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. For notes about the relationship between this status variable and its corresponding system variable, see the description ofCurrent_tls_ca.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Current_tls_cipher

  The active ssl_cipher value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. For notes about the relationship between this status variable and its corresponding system variable, see the description ofCurrent_tls_ca.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Current_tls_ciphersuites

  The active tls_ciphersuites value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. For notes about the relationship between this status variable and its corresponding system variable, see the description ofCurrent_tls_ca.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Current_tls_crl

  The active ssl_crl value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. For notes about the relationship between this status variable and its corresponding system variable, see the description ofCurrent_tls_ca.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Current_tls_crlpath

  The active ssl_crlpath value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. For notes about the relationship between this status variable and its corresponding system variable, see the description ofCurrent_tls_ca.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Current_tls_key

  The active ssl_key value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. For notes about the relationship between this status variable and its corresponding system variable, see the description ofCurrent_tls_ca.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Current_tls_version

  The active tls_version value in the SSL context that the server uses for new connections. For notes about the relationship between this status variable and its corresponding system variable, see the description ofCurrent_tls_ca.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.16.

• Delayed_errors

  This status variable is deprecated (because DELAYED inserts are not supported), and will be removed in a future release.

• Delayed_insert_threads

  This status variable is deprecated (because DELAYED inserts are not supported), and will be removed in a future release.

• Delayed_writes

  This status variable is deprecated (because DELAYED inserts are not supported), and will be removed in a future release.

• dragnet.Status

  The result of the most recent assignment to the dragnet.log_error_filter_rules system variable, empty if no such assignment has occurred.

  This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.12.

• Flush_commands

  The number of times the server flushes tables, whether because a user executed a FLUSH TABLES statement or due to internal server operation. It is also incremented by receipt of a COM_REFRESH packet. This is in contrast toCom_flush, which indicates how many FLUSH statements have been executed, whether FLUSH TABLES, FLUSH LOGS, and so forth.

• group_replication_primary_member

  Shows the primary member's UUID when the group is operating in single-primary mode. If the group is operating in multi-primary mode, shows an empty string.

  The group_replication_primary_member status variable has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in a future version.

• Handler_commit

  The number of internal COMMIT statements.

• Handler_delete

  The number of times that rows have been deleted from tables.

• Handler_external_lock

  The server increments this variable for each call to its external_lock() function, which generally occurs at the beginning and end of access to a table instance. There might be differences among storage engines. This variable can be used, for example, to discover for a statement that accesses a partitioned table how many partitions were pruned before locking occurred: Check how much the counter increased for the statement, subtract 2 (2 calls for the table itself), then divide by 2 to get the number of partitions locked.

• Handler_mrr_init

  The number of times the server uses a storage engine's own Multi-Range Read implementation for table access.

• Handler_prepare

  A counter for the prepare phase of two-phase commit operations.

• Handler_read_first

  The number of times the first entry in an index was read. If this value is high, it suggests that the server is doing a lot of full index scans (for example, SELECT col1 FROM foo, assuming that col1 is indexed).

• Handler_read_key

  The number of requests to read a row based on a key. If this value is high, it is a good indication that your tables are properly indexed for your queries.

• Handler_read_last

  The number of requests to read the last key in an index. With ORDER BY, the server will issue a first-key request followed by several next-key requests, whereas with ORDER BY DESC, the server will issue a last-key request followed by several previous-key requests.

• Handler_read_next

  The number of requests to read the next row in key order. This value is incremented if you are querying an index column with a range constraint or if you are doing an index scan.

• Handler_read_prev

  The number of requests to read the previous row in key order. This read method is mainly used to optimize ORDER BY ... DESC.

• Handler_read_rnd

  The number of requests to read a row based on a fixed position. This value is high if you are doing a lot of queries that require sorting of the result. You probably have a lot of queries that require MySQL to scan entire tables or you have joins that do not use keys properly.

• Handler_read_rnd_next

  The number of requests to read the next row in the data file. This value is high if you are doing a lot of table scans. Generally this suggests that your tables are not properly indexed or that your queries are not written to take advantage of the indexes you have.

• Handler_rollback

  The number of requests for a storage engine to perform a rollback operation.

• Handler_savepoint

  The number of requests for a storage engine to place a savepoint.

• Handler_savepoint_rollback

  The number of requests for a storage engine to roll back to a savepoint.

• Handler_update

  The number of requests to update a row in a table.

• Handler_write

  The number of requests to insert a row in a table.

• Innodb_available_undo_logs

  Innodb_available_undo_logs was removed in MySQL 8.0.2. The number of available rollback segments per tablespace may be retrieved using SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'innodb_rollback_segments';

• Innodb_buffer_pool_dump_status

  The progress of an operation to record the pages held in the InnoDB buffer pool, triggered by the setting ofinnodb_buffer_pool_dump_at_shutdown or innodb_buffer_pool_dump_now.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_load_status

  The progress of an operation to warm up the InnoDB buffer pool by reading in a set of pages corresponding to an earlier point in time, triggered by the setting of innodb_buffer_pool_load_at_startup orinnodb_buffer_pool_load_now. If the operation introduces too much overhead, you can cancel it by settinginnodb_buffer_pool_load_abort.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_bytes_data

  The total number of bytes in the InnoDB buffer pool containing data. The number includes both dirty and clean pages. For more accurate memory usage calculations than with Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data, when compressed tables cause the buffer pool to hold pages of different sizes.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data

  The number of pages in the InnoDB buffer pool containing data. The number includes both dirty and clean pages. When using compressed tables, the reported Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data value may be larger thanInnodb_buffer_pool_pages_total (Bug #59550).

• Innodb_buffer_pool_bytes_dirty

  The total current number of bytes held in dirty pages in the InnoDB buffer pool. For more accurate memory usage calculations than with Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_dirty, when compressed tables cause the buffer pool to hold pages of different sizes.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_dirty

  The current number of dirty pages in the InnoDB buffer pool.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_flushed

  The number of requests to flush pages from the InnoDB buffer pool.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_free

  The number of free pages in the InnoDB buffer pool.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_latched

  The number of latched pages in the InnoDB buffer pool. These are pages currently being read or written, or that cannot be flushed or removed for some other reason. Calculation of this variable is expensive, so it is available only when the UNIV_DEBUG system is defined at server build time.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_misc

  The number of pages in the InnoDB buffer pool that are busy because they have been allocated for administrative overhead, such as row locks or the adaptive hash index. This value can also be calculated asInnodb_buffer_pool_pages_total − Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_free −Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_data. When using compressed tables, Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_misc may report an out-of-bounds value (Bug #59550).

• Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_total

  The total size of the InnoDB buffer pool, in pages. When using compressed tables, the reportedInnodb_buffer_pool_pages_data value may be larger than Innodb_buffer_pool_pages_total (Bug #59550)

• Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead

  The number of pages read into the InnoDB buffer pool by the read-ahead background thread.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_evicted

  The number of pages read into the InnoDB buffer pool by the read-ahead background thread that were subsequently evicted without having been accessed by queries.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_read_ahead_rnd

  The number of “random” read-aheads initiated by InnoDB. This happens when a query scans a large portion of a table but in random order.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_read_requests

  The number of logical read requests.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_reads

  The number of logical reads that InnoDB could not satisfy from the buffer pool, and had to read directly from disk.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_resize_status

  The status of an operation to resize the InnoDB buffer pool dynamically, triggered by setting theinnodb_buffer_pool_size parameter dynamically. The innodb_buffer_pool_size parameter is dynamic, which allows you to resize the buffer pool without restarting the server. See Configuring InnoDB Buffer Pool Size Online for related information.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_wait_free

  Normally, writes to the InnoDB buffer pool happen in the background. When InnoDB needs to read or create a pageand no clean pages are available, InnoDB flushes some dirty pages first and waits for that operation to finish. This counter counts instances of these waits. If innodb_buffer_pool_size has been set properly, this value should be small.

• Innodb_buffer_pool_write_requests

  The number of writes done to the InnoDB buffer pool.

• Innodb_data_fsyncs

  The number of fsync() operations so far. The frequency of fsync() calls is influenced by the setting of theinnodb_flush_method configuration option.

• Innodb_data_pending_fsyncs

  The current number of pending fsync() operations. The frequency of fsync() calls is influenced by the setting of the innodb_flush_method configuration option.

• Innodb_data_pending_reads

  The current number of pending reads.

• Innodb_data_pending_writes

  The current number of pending writes.

• Innodb_data_read

  The amount of data read since the server was started (in bytes).

• Innodb_data_reads

  The total number of data reads (OS file reads).

• Innodb_data_writes

  The total number of data writes.

• Innodb_data_written

  The amount of data written so far, in bytes.

• Innodb_dblwr_pages_written

  The number of pages that have been written to the doublewrite buffer.

• Innodb_dblwr_writes

  The number of doublewrite operations that have been performed.

• Innodb_have_atomic_builtins

  Indicates whether the server was built with atomic instructions.

• Innodb_log_waits

  The number of times that the log buffer was too small and a wait was required for it to be flushed before continuing.

• Innodb_log_write_requests

  The number of write requests for the InnoDB redo log.

• Innodb_log_writes

  The number of physical writes to the InnoDB redo log file.

• Innodb_num_open_files

  The number of files InnoDB currently holds open.

• Innodb_os_log_fsyncs

  The number of fsync() writes done to the InnoDB redo log files.

• Innodb_os_log_pending_fsyncs

  The number of pending fsync() operations for the InnoDB redo log files.

• Innodb_os_log_pending_writes

  The number of pending writes to the InnoDB redo log files.

• Innodb_os_log_written

  The number of bytes written to the InnoDB redo log files.

• Innodb_page_size

  InnoDB page size (default 16KB). Many values are counted in pages; the page size enables them to be easily converted to bytes.

• Innodb_pages_created

  The number of pages created by operations on InnoDB tables.

• Innodb_pages_read

  The number of pages read from the InnoDB buffer pool by operations on InnoDB tables.

• Innodb_pages_written

  The number of pages written by operations on InnoDB tables.

• Innodb_row_lock_current_waits

  The number of row locks currently being waited for by operations on InnoDB tables.

• Innodb_row_lock_time

  The total time spent in acquiring row locks for InnoDB tables, in milliseconds.

• Innodb_row_lock_time_avg

  The average time to acquire a row lock for InnoDB tables, in milliseconds.

• Innodb_row_lock_time_max

  The maximum time to acquire a row lock for InnoDB tables, in milliseconds.

• Innodb_row_lock_waits

  The number of times operations on InnoDB tables had to wait for a row lock.

• Innodb_rows_deleted

  The number of rows deleted from InnoDB tables.

• Innodb_rows_inserted

  The number of rows inserted into InnoDB tables.

• Innodb_rows_read

  The number of rows read from InnoDB tables.

• Innodb_rows_updated

  The number of rows updated in InnoDB tables.

• Innodb_truncated_status_writes

  The number of times output from the SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS statement has been truncated.

• Key_blocks_not_flushed

  The number of key blocks in the MyISAM key cache that have changed but have not yet been flushed to disk.

• Key_blocks_unused

  The number of unused blocks in the MyISAM key cache. You can use this value to determine how much of the key cache is in use; see the discussion of key_buffer_size in Section “Server System Variables”.

• Key_blocks_used

  The number of used blocks in the MyISAM key cache. This value is a high-water mark that indicates the maximum number of blocks that have ever been in use at one time.

• Key_read_requests

  The number of requests to read a key block from the MyISAM key cache.

• Key_reads

  The number of physical reads of a key block from disk into the MyISAM key cache. If Key_reads is large, then your key_buffer_size value is probably too small. The cache miss rate can be calculated asKey_reads/Key_read_requests.

• Key_write_requests

  The number of requests to write a key block to the MyISAM key cache.

• Key_writes

  The number of physical writes of a key block from the MyISAM key cache to disk.

• Last_query_cost

  The total cost of the last compiled query as computed by the query optimizer. This is useful for comparing the cost of different query plans for the same query. The default value of 0 means that no query has been compiled yet. The default value is 0. Last_query_cost has session scope.

  In MySQL 8.0.16 and later, this variable shows the cost of queries that have multiple query blocks, summing the cost estimates of each query block, estimating how many times non-cacheable subqueries are executed, and multiplying the cost of those query blocks by the number of subquery executions. (Bug #92766, Bug #28786951) Prior to MySQL 8.0.16, Last_query_cost was computed accurately only for simple, “flat” queries, but not for complex queries such as those containing subqueries or UNION. (For the latter, the value was set to 0.)

• Last_query_partial_plans

  The number of iterations the query optimizer made in execution plan construction for the previous query.Last_query_cost has session scope.

• Locked_connects

  The number of attempts to connect to locked user accounts. For information about account locking and unlocking.

• Max_execution_time_exceeded

  The number of SELECT statements for which the execution timeout was exceeded.

• Max_execution_time_set

  The number of SELECT statements for which a nonzero execution timeout was set. This includes statements that include a nonzero MAX_EXECUTION_TIME optimizer hint, and statements that include no such hint but execute while the timeout indicated by the max_execution_time system variable is nonzero.

• Max_execution_time_set_failed

  The number of SELECT statements for which the attempt to set an execution timeout failed.

• Max_used_connections

  The maximum number of connections that have been in use simultaneously since the server started.

• Max_used_connections_time

  The time at which Max_used_connections reached its current value.

• Not_flushed_delayed_rows

  This status variable is deprecated (because DELAYED inserts are not supported), and will be removed in a future release.

• mecab_charset

  The character set currently used by the MeCab full-text parser plugin.

• Ongoing_anonymous_transaction_count

  Shows the number of ongoing transactions which have been marked as anonymous. This can be used to ensure that no further transactions are waiting to be processed.

• Ongoing_anonymous_gtid_violating_transaction_count

  This status variable is only available in debug builds. Shows the number of ongoing transactions which usegtid_next=ANONYMOUS and that violate GTID consistency.

• Ongoing_automatic_gtid_violating_transaction_count

  This status variable is only available in debug builds. Shows the number of ongoing transactions which usegtid_next=AUTOMATIC and that violate GTID consistency.

• Open_files

  The number of files that are open. This count includes regular files opened by the server. It does not include other types of files such as sockets or pipes. Also, the count does not include files that storage engines open using their own internal functions rather than asking the server level to do so.

• Open_streams

  The number of streams that are open (used mainly for logging).

• Open_table_definitions

  The number of cached table definitions.

• Open_tables

  The number of tables that are open.

• Opened_files

  The number of files that have been opened with my_open() (a mysys library function). Parts of the server that open files without using this function do not increment the count.

• Opened_table_definitions

  The number of table definitions that have been cached.

• Opened_tables

  The number of tables that have been opened. If Opened_tables is big, your table_open_cache value is probably too small.

• Performance_schema_*xxx*

  Performance Schema status variables are listed in Section “Performance Schema Status Variables”. These variables provide information about instrumentation that could not be loaded or created due to memory constraints.

• Prepared_stmt_count

  The current number of prepared statements. (The maximum number of statements is given by themax_prepared_stmt_count system variable.)

• Qcache_free_blocks

  This status variable was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.

• Qcache_free_memory

  This status variable was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.

• Qcache_hits

  This status variable was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.

• Qcache_inserts

  This status variable was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.

• Qcache_lowmem_prunes

  This status variable was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.

• Qcache_not_cached

  This status variable was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.

• Qcache_queries_in_cache

  This status variable was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.

• Qcache_total_blocks

  This status variable was removed in MySQL 8.0.3.

• Queries

  The number of statements executed by the server. This variable includes statements executed within stored programs, unlike the Questions variable. It does not count COM_PING or COM_STATISTICS commands.

  The discussion at the beginning of this section indicates how to relate this statement-counting status variable to other such variables.

• Questions

  The number of statements executed by the server. This includes only statements sent to the server by clients and not statements executed within stored programs, unlike the Queries variable. This variable does not count COM_PING, COM_STATISTICS, COM_STMT_PREPARE, COM_STMT_CLOSE, or COM_STMT_RESET commands.

  The discussion at the beginning of this section indicates how to relate this statement-counting status variable to other such variables.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_clients

  The number of semisynchronous slaves.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_net_avg_wait_time

  The average time in microseconds the master waited for a slave reply. This variable is always 0, is deprecated and it will be removed in a future version.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_net_wait_time

  The total time in microseconds the master waited for slave replies. This variable is always 0, is deprecated and it will be removed in a future version.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_net_waits

  The total number of times the master waited for slave replies.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_no_times

  The number of times the master turned off semisynchronous replication.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_no_tx

  The number of commits that were not acknowledged successfully by a slave.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_status

  Whether semisynchronous replication currently is operational on the master. The value is ON if the plugin has been enabled and a commit acknowledgment has occurred. It is OFF if the plugin is not enabled or the master has fallen back to asynchronous replication due to commit acknowledgment timeout.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_timefunc_failures

  The number of times the master failed when calling time functions such as gettimeofday().

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_tx_avg_wait_time

  The average time in microseconds the master waited for each transaction.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_tx_wait_time

  The total time in microseconds the master waited for transactions.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_tx_waits

  The total number of times the master waited for transactions.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_pos_backtraverse

  The total number of times the master waited for an event with binary coordinates lower than events waited for previously. This can occur when the order in which transactions start waiting for a reply is different from the order in which their binary log events are written.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_wait_sessions

  The number of sessions currently waiting for slave replies.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_master_yes_tx

  The number of commits that were acknowledged successfully by a slave.

  This variable is available only if the master-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rpl_semi_sync_slave_status

  Whether semisynchronous replication currently is operational on the slave. This is ON if the plugin has been enabled and the slave I/O thread is running, OFF otherwise.

  This variable is available only if the slave-side semisynchronous replication plugin is installed.

• Rsa_public_key

  The value of this variable is the public key used by the sha256_password authentication plugin for RSA key pair-based password exchange. The value is nonempty only if the server successfully initializes the private and public keys in the files named by the sha256_password_private_key_path and sha256_password_public_key_pathsystem variables. The value of Rsa_public_key comes from the latter file.

• Secondary_engine_execution_count

  For future use. This variable was added in MySQL 8.0.13.

• Select_full_join

  The number of joins that perform table scans because they do not use indexes. If this value is not 0, you should carefully check the indexes of your tables.

• Select_full_range_join

  The number of joins that used a range search on a reference table.

• Select_range

  The number of joins that used ranges on the first table. This is normally not a critical issue even if the value is quite large.

• Select_range_check

  The number of joins without keys that check for key usage after each row. If this is not 0, you should carefully check the indexes of your tables.

• Select_scan

  The number of joins that did a full scan of the first table.

• Slave_heartbeat_period

  This variable is obsolete and was removed in MySQL 8.0.1. Instead, use the HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL column of thereplication_connection_configuration table.

• Slave_last_heartbeat

  This variable is obsolete and was removed in MySQL 8.0.1. Instead, use the LAST_HEARTBEAT_TIMESTAMP column of the replication_connection_status table.

• Slave_open_temp_tables

  The number of temporary tables that the slave SQL thread currently has open. If the value is greater than zero, it is not safe to shut down the slave; “Replication and Temporary Tables”. This variable reports the total count of open temporary tables for all replication channels.

• Slave_received_heartbeats

  This variable is obsolete and was removed in MySQL 8.0.1. Instead, use the COUNT_RECEIVED_HEARTBEATS column of the replication_connection_status table.

• Slave_retried_transactions

  This variable is obsolete and was removed in MySQL 8.0.1. Instead, use the COUNT_TRANSACTIONS_RETRIEScolumn of the replication_applier_status table.

• Slave_rows_last_search_algorithm_used

  The search algorithm that was most recently used by this slave to locate rows for row-based replication. The result shows whether the slave used indexes, a table scan, or hashing as the search algorithm for the last transaction executed on any channel.

  The method used depends on the setting for the slave_rows_search_algorithms system variable, and the keys that are available on the relevant table.

  This variable is available only for debug builds of MySQL.

• Slave_running

  This variable is obsolete and was removed in MySQL 8.0.1. Instead, use the SERVICE_STATE column of the replication_connection_status and replication_applier_status tables.

• Slow_launch_threads

  The number of threads that have taken more than slow_launch_time seconds to create.

• Slow_queries

  The number of queries that have taken more than long_query_time seconds. This counter increments regardless of whether the slow query log is enabled.

• Sort_merge_passes

  The number of merge passes that the sort algorithm has had to do. If this value is large, you should consider increasing the value of the sort_buffer_size system variable.

• Sort_range

  The number of sorts that were done using ranges.

• Sort_rows

  The number of sorted rows.

• Sort_scan

  The number of sorts that were done by scanning the table.

• Ssl_accept_renegotiates

  The number of negotiates needed to establish the connection.

• Ssl_accepts

  The number of accepted SSL connections.

• Ssl_callback_cache_hits

  The number of callback cache hits.

• Ssl_cipher

  The current encryption cipher (empty for unencrypted connections).

• Ssl_cipher_list

  The list of possible SSL ciphers (empty for non-SSL connections). If MySQL supports TLSv1.3, the value includes the possible TLSv1.3 ciphersuites.

• Ssl_client_connects

  The number of SSL connection attempts to an SSL-enabled master.

• Ssl_connect_renegotiates

  The number of negotiates needed to establish the connection to an SSL-enabled master.

• Ssl_ctx_verify_depth

  The SSL context verification depth (how many certificates in the chain are tested).

• Ssl_ctx_verify_mode

  The SSL context verification mode.

• Ssl_default_timeout

  The default SSL timeout.

• Ssl_finished_accepts

  The number of successful SSL connections to the server.

• Ssl_finished_connects

  The number of successful slave connections to an SSL-enabled master.

• Ssl_server_not_after

  The last date for which the SSL certificate is valid. To check SSL certificate expiration information, use this statement:

  mysql> SHOW STATUS LIKE 'Ssl_server_not%';
  +-----------------------+--------------------------+
  | Variable_name         | Value                    |
  +-----------------------+--------------------------+
  | Ssl_server_not_after  | Apr 28 14:16:39 2025 GMT |
  | Ssl_server_not_before | May  1 14:16:39 2015 GMT |
  +-----------------------+--------------------------+

• Ssl_server_not_before

  The first date for which the SSL certificate is valid.

• Ssl_session_cache_hits

  The number of SSL session cache hits.

• Ssl_session_cache_misses

  The number of SSL session cache misses.

• Ssl_session_cache_mode

  The SSL session cache mode.

• Ssl_session_cache_overflows

  The number of SSL session cache overflows.

• Ssl_session_cache_size

  The SSL session cache size.

• Ssl_session_cache_timeouts

  The number of SSL session cache timeouts.

• Ssl_sessions_reused

  How many SSL connections were reused from the cache.

• Ssl_used_session_cache_entries

  How many SSL session cache entries were used.

• Ssl_verify_depth

  The verification depth for replication SSL connections.

• Ssl_verify_mode

  The verification mode used by the server for a connection that uses SSL. The value is a bitmask; bits are defined in the openssl/ssl.h header file:

  # define SSL_VERIFY_NONE                 0x00
  # define SSL_VERIFY_PEER                 0x01
  # define SSL_VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT 0x02
  # define SSL_VERIFY_CLIENT_ONCE          0x04

  SSL_VERIFY_PEER indicates that the server asks for a client certificate. If the client supplies one, the server performs verification and proceeds only if verification is successful. SSL_VERIFY_CLIENT_ONCE indicates that a request for the client certificate will be done only in the initial handshake.

• Ssl_version

  The SSL protocol version of the connection (for example, TLSv1). If the connection is not encrypted, the value is empty.

• Table_locks_immediate

  The number of times that a request for a table lock could be granted immediately.

• Table_locks_waited

  The number of times that a request for a table lock could not be granted immediately and a wait was needed. If this is high and you have performance problems, you should first optimize your queries, and then either split your table or tables or use replication.

• Table_open_cache_hits

  The number of hits for open tables cache lookups.

• Table_open_cache_misses

  The number of misses for open tables cache lookups.

• Table_open_cache_overflows

  The number of overflows for the open tables cache. This is the number of times, after a table is opened or closed, a cache instance has an unused entry and the size of the instance is larger than table_open_cache / table_open_cache_instances.

• Tc_log_max_pages_used

  For the memory-mapped implementation of the log that is used by mysqld when it acts as the transaction coordinator for recovery of internal XA transactions, this variable indicates the largest number of pages used for the log since the server started. If the product of Tc_log_max_pages_used and Tc_log_page_size is always significantly less than the log size, the size is larger than necessary and can be reduced. (The size is set by the --log-tc-size option. This variable is unused: It is unneeded for binary log-based recovery, and the memory-mapped recovery log method is not used unless the number of storage engines that are capable of two-phase commit and that support XA transactions is greater than one. (InnoDB is the only applicable engine.)

• Tc_log_page_size

  The page size used for the memory-mapped implementation of the XA recovery log. The default value is determined using getpagesize(). This variable is unused for the same reasons as described for Tc_log_max_pages_used.

• Tc_log_page_waits

  For the memory-mapped implementation of the recovery log, this variable increments each time the server was not able to commit a transaction and had to wait for a free page in the log. If this value is large, you might want to increase the log size (with the --log-tc-size option). For binary log-based recovery, this variable increments each time the binary log cannot be closed because there are two-phase commits in progress. (The close operation waits until all such transactions are finished.)

• Threads_cached

  The number of threads in the thread cache.

• Threads_connected

  The number of currently open connections.

• Threads_created

  The number of threads created to handle connections. If Threads_created is big, you may want to increase thethread_cache_size value. The cache miss rate can be calculated as Threads_created/Connections.

• Threads_running

  The number of threads that are not sleeping.

• Uptime

  The number of seconds that the server has been up.

• Uptime_since_flush_status

  The number of seconds since the most recent FLUSH STATUS statement.