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…anels The bundled mysqld_exporter already ships a perf_schema.memory_events collector over performance_schema.memory_summary_global_by_event_name, exposing mysql_perf_schema_memory_events_used_bytes / _alloc_bytes_total / _free_bytes_total per event_name. PMM never enabled it and no dashboard rendered it. - Enable the collector in both synced generators: the mysqld_exporter flag list (mysql.go, LR group) and the VM scrape-config generator (scrape_configs.go, LR options), keeping the two in sync. - Update the golden tests (mysql_test.go, scrape_configs_test.go, victoriametrics_test.go) for the added collector. - Add a "Performance Schema Memory" section to the MySQL Performance Schema Details dashboard: current bytes used (topk by event), allocation rate and free rate, plus a "Memory Event" filter variable. Panels degrade to no-data when memory instruments are not enabled server-side. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TNZLMVAW9gHXcccq8uYBip
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- Around line 3668-3873: Update the targets in the Memory Allocation Rate and
Memory Free Rate panels, identified by IDs 1102 and 1103, to add the dashboard’s
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Nice one, the exporter side is clean and I like that both synced lists got updated. Left a few inline questions. Just one more things from me:
- Could we update
documentation/docs/reference/dashboards/dashboard-mysql-performance-schema-details.md? It lists the sections of this dashboard and the new one is missing. More importantly the ticket title is basically "show data ifperformance-schema-instrument='memory/%=ON'", and right now that instruction only lives in a panel tooltip. Feels like it should be in the docs.
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Was always-on the agreed call here, or is it still open?
The triage note on the ticket listed it as an open question (tablestats-group toggle vs. always-on) and I don't see it answered anywhere.
Not saying it's wrong, I lean the same way, the query is one cheap global summary and nothing like the per-table cost the tablestats toggle exists for. But by your own numbers it's ~215 events x 3 metrics, so roughly 650 extra series per MySQL service, on by default, for everyone after upgrade. On a few hundred services that adds up. Can we get someone to sign off on that explicitly rather than it slipping in? Or did that already happen offline?
(I checked the version-gate side and it's fine, no IsFeatureSupported needed. ScrapePerfMemoryEvents is in the scrapers map from pmm-2.42.0 through main, so the flag exists on any client we care about. Just noting it so nobody else has to go look.)
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@Tusamarco can you advise here? should this be collected by default all the time?
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My Point is that if we do not have performance impact in collecting the events at MySQL level this should be ON by default. If this cause a problem for you in VM then this is a different issue.
In either case I would agree in having the option to disable as we have for tablestat, but if we do that then I think we should have it also for all other major consumers, to be consistent and modular.
However the memory usage information is one crucial aspect of the service health and as said I would like to have it ON by default.
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Answered by @Tusamarco above: on by default. Memory usage is core service-health data, the server-side cost is one global summary query, and series volume on the VM side is a separate concern rather than a reason not to collect. So no IsFeatureSupported gate and no new toggle in this PR — the Go side stays as you reviewed it.
Thanks for pre-checking the version gate. Agreed, and the client floor is 3.0.0 regardless (NodeExporterNewTLSConfig; the 2.36.0 constant next to it is vestigial), so every supported client has the scraper.
On the opt-out @Tusamarco wants: it already exists and needs no new code. mysql.go:111 runs
args = collectors.FilterOutCollectors("--collect.", args, exporter.ExporterOptions.DisabledCollectors)mirrored on each resolution list in scrape_configs.go, so --disable-collectors=perf_schema.memory_events on pmm-admin add mysql already turns this off per service and keeps the exporter args and the scrape config in agreement. Making that consistently discoverable across all the major consumers, as he suggests, is a reasonable separate ticket rather than something to bolt onto this one.
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Enabling perf_schema.memory_events for every MySQL service unconditionally is a significant cardinality change. Measured on an idle mysql:8.0.46: 212 of 502 instruments report non-null, × 3 metrics = ~636 new series per instance, and a busy server pushes that toward ~1500. These are scraped at the LR interval and stored unfiltered.
The only per-service gate in this file is the tablestats group's table-count limit, so this would be the largest collector turned on for the whole fleet by default. Could we either put it behind a service-level opt-in / agent flag, or drop the instrument set to the ones that actually get looked at?
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Your measurement matches mine and the concern is a fair one to raise, but three of the specifics don't hold — and @Tusamarco has called the decision above: on by default.
1. Not the largest default-on collector, by a wide margin. --collect.perf_schema.eventsstatements is already unconditional in the same LR list (mysql.go:54), and eventsstatements.limit defaults to 250 digests × 15 metric descriptors — up to ~3750 series per instance. That's roughly 6× memory_events' ~636, on by default, today.
2. A per-service gate already exists. Beyond the tablestats group, mysql.go:111 runs collectors.FilterOutCollectors("--collect.", args, exporter.ExporterOptions.DisabledCollectors), mirrored in scrape_configs.go, so pmm-admin add mysql --disable-collectors=perf_schema.memory_events already disables this per service with no new API surface. Inverting it to opt-in would need a new inventory field, a pmm-admin flag and UI, for a collector that on your own numbers is a sixth of eventsstatements.
3. Reducing the instrument set isn't available today. The collector's only tunable is --collect.perf_schema.memory_events.remove_prefix. There's no instrument filter, and scrape_configs.go has no metric_relabel_configs plumbing to drop them at ingest, so this would be an upstream mysqld_exporter change — its own ticket, not a review fix.
One point in your favour worth writing down: the ~1500 figure isn't load-driven, it's just the instrument count. The collector query is
... FROM performance_schema.memory_summary_global_by_event_name WHERE COUNT_ALLOC > 0so the ceiling is 502 × 3 = 1506 on 8.0.46 no matter how busy the server gets. It grows as instruments are touched for the first time and then plateaus — worth knowing for capacity planning, but it's a bounded step change rather than something that scales with workload.
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Thanks all — a follow-up commit is coming with everything below. Decision on always-on: settled by @Tusamarco above — the collector stays enabled by default. No Review items addressed
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One correction to the record while verifying the rate fallback — see the thread on the rate queries. The "no data when Not doing, deliberately
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Dashboard: - Scope the Memory Event variable to $service_name and drop refresh from 2 to 1, matching the other high-cardinality scoped variables. - Move the Performance Schema Memory row above MySQL Summary (293) and Node Summary (291), which are the standard trailing rows, and give it contiguous gridPos coordinates instead of y: 200/201/210. - Add the >0 filter to the irate fallback branch as well, so both branches match the other rate panels in this dashboard. - Wrap all three queries in avg by (service_name,event_name), the pattern every other perf-schema panel here uses. - Rename the panels to house style; no other dashboard uses em dashes. - Drop yaxes min: 0 on the usage panel. CURRENT_NUMBER_OF_BYTES_USED can legitimately go negative and was being clipped out of view. - Set the usage panel height to 8, like every other graph here. - Name the real source columns in the panel descriptions and repeat the server prerequisite on all three panels. Docs: - List the three new panels in the dashboard reference page and document the performance-schema-instrument='memory/%=ON' prerequisite, which previously only existed in a panel tooltip. Signed-off-by: theTibi <tkorocz@gmail.com>
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27-27: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueA wee lint gremlin, and I know just where it hides.
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[perfschema-instrument]definition on line 36 as unused. The cause is the 4-space indentation of the admonition body: the linter parses line 27 as a code block, so it never sees the reference usage. MkDocs still renders the link correctly, so this is lint noise only. Use an inline link to keep the build log clean.♻️ Proposed change
- Enable them at server start-up with the [`performance-schema-instrument`][perfschema-instrument] option: + Enable them at server start-up with the [`performance-schema-instrument`](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/performance-schema-options.html#option_mysqld_performance-schema-instrument) option:-[perfschema-instrument]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/performance-schema-options.html#option_mysqld_performance-schema-instrument -Also applies to: 36-36
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Every other page in documentation/docs/reference/dashboards/ uses inline links. The reference-style definition also read as unused to markdownlint, because the 4-space indented admonition body hides the usage from it. Signed-off-by: theTibi <tkorocz@gmail.com>
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What / why
PMM's bundled
mysqld_exporteralready ships aperf_schema.memory_eventscollector overperformance_schema.memory_summary_global_by_event_name, exposing memory usage perevent_name:mysql_perf_schema_memory_events_used_bytes(=CURRENT_NUMBER_OF_BYTES_USED)mysql_perf_schema_memory_events_alloc_bytes_totalmysql_perf_schema_memory_events_free_bytes_totalThe collector was never enabled by PMM and nothing rendered it. This PR turns it on and graphs it, giving memory observability for PS/PXC (especially relevant in k8s).
Changes
managed/services/agents/mysql.go— add--collect.perf_schema.memory_eventsto the LR args.managed/services/victoriametrics/scrape_configs.go— addperf_schema.memory_eventsto the LR scrape options, keeping the two lists in sync.mysql_test.go,scrape_configs_test.go,victoriametrics_test.go.performance-schema-instrument='memory/%=ON').Testing
Validated end-to-end against two monitored instances, Percona Server 8.0.46 and MySQL 9.1.0:
mysqld_exporterprocesses carry--collect.perf_schema.memory_events.innodb/buf_buf_pool= 130.9 MB on both).up=1on all scrape jobs; no scrape errors and no parse/"unsupported" warnings on MySQL 9.1.TestMySQLdExporterConfig*andTestScrapeConfigpass; both packages build.No regression on 8.0; works on the newer 9.x series.
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