29.12.15 Performance Schema Status Variable Tables

The MySQL server maintains many status variables that provide information about its operation (see Section 7.1.10, “Server Status Variables”). 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. See Section 29.12.20.12, “Status Variable Summary Tables”.

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 INSTRUMENTED value 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 the events_statements_summary_global_by_event_name and events_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 the performance_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 is 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.