MySQL 5.7 Reference Manual Including MySQL NDB Cluster 7.5 and NDB Cluster 7.6
          Returns YES or NO to
          indicate whether a given Performance Schema consumer is
          enabled, or NULL if the argument is
          NULL. If the argument is not a valid
          consumer name, an error occurs. (Prior to MySQL 5.7.28, the
          function returns NULL if the argument is
          not a valid consumer name.)
        
This function accounts for the consumer hierarchy, so a consumer is not considered enabled unless all consumers on which depends are also enabled. For information about the consumer hierarchy, see Section 25.4.7, “Pre-Filtering by Consumer”.
mysql> SELECT sys.ps_is_consumer_enabled('thread_instrumentation');
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| sys.ps_is_consumer_enabled('thread_instrumentation') |
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| YES                                                  |
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