RDS has created some basic tooling for looking at the internal
status variables within MySQL called Global Status History or
"GoSH" though unfortunately the tooling is
broken.
The tooling, detailed at the following link here is meant to snapshot the output of
"show status" and squirt the data into a table in the MySQL
schema called mysql.rds_global_status_history.
The issue is that the bootstrapped event called
'ev_rds_gsh_collector' is missing and therefore the procedures to
enable the snapshotting fail.
It appears that whenever an RDS instance is started (or bounced)
the contents of the 'mysql' schema is re-created - therefore the
injection of the row into the event table is missing from
whatever init script AWS has.
To 'fix' GoSH you can …
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03
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