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scavern
5 years ago

Update MySQL Global Stats datasource to read config from my.cnf

Hi, I had an alert yesterday for the Threads_connected datapoint on the MySQL Global Stats datasource. We actually increased the max_connections in the my.cnf config file. Is it possible t...
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Anonymous
5 years ago

Wait, wait, wait. Isn't  

show global status;

contained inside 

show variables;

If that's the case (to be verified), you could just change the query to "show variables;" and it should output all the same stuff along with max_connections. Then it's just a matter of adding the datapoint.