Turn on the Performance Schema for Aurora MySQL - Amazon Aurora
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Turn on the Performance Schema for Aurora MySQL

Assume that Performance Insights is turned on for your DB instance but isn't currently managing the Performance Schema. If you want to allow Performance Insights to manage the Performance Schema automatically, complete the following steps.

To configure the Performance Schema for automatic management

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/rds/.

  2. Choose Parameter groups.

  3. Select the name of the parameter group for your DB instance.

  4. Choose Edit.

  5. Enter perf in the search bar.

  6. Select the performance_schema parameter.

  7. Choose Set to default value.

  8. Confirm by choosing Set values to default.

  9. Choose Save Changes.

  10. Reboot the DB instance.

    Important

    Whenever you turn the Performance Schema on or off, make sure to reboot the DB instance.

For more information about modifying instance parameters, see Modifying parameters in a DB parameter group in Amazon Aurora. For more information about the dashboard, see Analyzing metrics with the Performance Insights dashboard. For more information about the MySQL performance schema, see MySQL Performance Schema (for 8.0) and MySQL Performance Schema (for 8.4) in the MySQL documentation.