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This PR revamps the MySQL OpenTelemetry integration dashboards to provide a comprehensive and user-friendly monitoring experience. The previous 2 dashboards have been replaced with 4 purpose-built dashboards that better organize metrics based on database observability best practices.

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  • I have verified that Kibana version constraints are current according to guidelines.
  • I have verified that any added dashboard complies with Kibana's Dashboard good practices

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@andrewkroh andrewkroh added dashboard Relates to a Kibana dashboard bug, enhancement, or modification. documentation Improvements or additions to documentation. Applied to PRs that modify *.md files. Integration:mysql_otel MySQL OpenTelemetry Assets Team:Obs-InfraObs Observability Infrastructure Monitoring team [elastic/obs-infraobs-integrations] labels Feb 2, 2026
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ishleenk17 commented Feb 3, 2026

@shmsr : Looked at the live dashboards from serverless for the feedback.

  • DB namespace and schema. How are these different ?

  • I see that the control filters are same across all the dashboards. Then I think we can enable the carrying forward of the filter values across dashboards. WDYT ?

  • On selecting value in endpoint instance, the db namespace becomes empty. Please check

  • Buffer pool used metric tile is the max value and below is the spread. Right ? (In Overview)

  • Carrying the same time window forward might make sense. Think from debugging point. A particular time frame is being debugged across dashboards. And when they move thay loose that time window

  • How are total and max connection errors different (Availability) ?

  • Buffer Pool Pages by Type doesn't have dirty pages ?

  • Storage capacity: Total rows, Total size is for what, this is not clear. And why would those panels be empty (checked last 24 hours)

  • Queries (the top metrics panel shoes unable to load)

  • Longest Wait of what (active queries), already run queries ? It shows NaN..

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packages/mysql_otel/docs/README.md
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GRANT PROCESS ON *.* TO '<MYSQL_USER>'@'%';

-- Query samples, top queries, statement events (performance_schema access)
GRANT SELECT ON performance_schema.* TO '<MYSQL_USER>'@'%';

-- Table statistics (mysql.table.size, mysql.table.rows) and EXPLAIN for top query plans
GRANT SELECT ON <your_database>.* TO '<MYSQL_USER>'@'%';
```

**Replica instance (for replication metrics):**

```sql
-- mysql.replica.time_behind_source, mysql.replica.sql_delay
-- Works on both MySQL and MariaDB (MariaDB 10.5+ remaps this to BINLOG MONITOR)
GRANT REPLICATION CLIENT ON *.* TO '<MYSQL_USER>'@'%';
```

**Performance Schema consumers:**
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@ishleenk17 updated this list and tested; even this README does not do a good job at listing the pre-reqs properly.

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Ideally any config related to the service itself should be updated in the receiver documentation rather than in the content pack.
Please raise a ticket upstream to add these config options in the README as well.

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Looks good!

@shmsr shmsr merged commit a139dba into elastic:main Feb 18, 2026
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Package mysql_otel - 0.3.0 containing this change is available at https://epr.elastic.co/package/mysql_otel/0.3.0/

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