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This page describes how you can use the Cloud SQL System insights dashboard. The System insights dashboard displays metrics for the resources that your instance uses and helps you detect and analyze system performance problems.
You can use Gemini in Databases assistance to help you observe and troubleshoot your Cloud SQL for MySQL resources. For more information, see
Observe and troubleshoot with Gemini assistance.
View the System insights dashboardTo view the System insights dashboard, do the following:
In the Google Cloud console, go to the Cloud SQL Instances page.
Select the System insights tab from the SQL navigation panel on the left.
The System insights dashboard opens.
Figure 1. Dashboard image showing events timeline and summary cards.The System insights dashboard shows the following information:
Your instance details
Events timeline: shows the system events, in a chronological order. This information helps you evaluate the impact of system events on the health and performance of the instance.
Summary cards: provide an overview of the instance health and performance by displaying the latest and aggregated values for the CPU utilization, disk utilization, and log errors metrics.
Metrics charts: show the information about the operating system and database metrics that help you gain insight into several issues, such as throughput, latency, and cost.
The dashboard offers the following high-level options:
To keep the dashboard up to date, enable the Auto Refresh option. When you enable Auto Refresh, the dashboard data updates every minute. This feature isn't compatible with customized time periods.
The time selector shows 1 day
selected by default. To change the period, select one of the other predefined periods or click Custom and define a start and end time. Data is available for the last 30 days.
To create an absolute link to the dashboard, click the Copy Link button. You can share this link with other Cloud SQL users who have the same permissions.
To create an alert for a specific event, click notifications Notification.
To display specific alerts, click Annotations.
The following table describes the summary cards displayed at the top of the System Insights dashboard. These cards provide a brief overview of the instance's health and performance during the chosen time period.
Summary card Description CPU utilization - P50 The P50 CPU utilization values. CPU utilization - P99 The P99 CPU utilization values. Disk utilization The latest disk utilization value. Log errors The number of errors that were logged. Metrics chartsThe toolbar on each chart card provides the following set of standard options:
To view metric values for a specific moment in the selected period, move the cursor over the chart.
To zoom in on a chart, click the chart and drag horizontally along the x-axis or vertically along the y-axis. To revert the zoom operation, click Reset zoom. Or, click one of the predefined time periods at the top of the dashboard. Zoom operations apply at the same time to all charts on a dashboard.
To view additional options, click more_vert More chart options. Most charts offer these options:
To view a chart in full-screen mode, click View in full screen. To exit full-screen mode, click Cancel.
Hide or collapse the legend.
Download a PNG or CSV file of the chart.
View in Metrics Explorer. View the metric in Metrics Explorer. You can view other Cloud SQL metrics in the Metrics Explorer after selecting the Cloud SQL Database resource type.
To create a custom dashboard, click edit Customize dashboard and give it a name. Or, expand the Predefined menu and select an existing custom dashboard.
To view a metric chart's data in detail, click query_stats Explore data. Here, you can filter specific metrics and choose how the chart displays:
To save this customized view as a metric chart, click Save to dashboard.
The following table describes the Cloud SQL metrics that appear by default on the Cloud SQL System insights dashboard.
Note: Cloud SQL for MySQL instances with more than 500 databases report a single aggregated value for database metrics. Metric name and type Description Query latencydbinsights.googleapis.com/
aggregate/latencies
The aggregated query latency distribution by P99, P95, and P50 per user and database.
Only available for instances with query insights enabled.
Database load per database/user/client addressdbinsights.googleapis.com/
aggregate/execution_time
The accumulated query execution time per database, user, or client address. This is the sum of CPU time, I/O wait time, lock wait time, process context switch, and scheduling for all processes involved in query execution.
Only available for instances with query insights enabled.
CPU utilizationcloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/cpu/utilization
The current CPU utilization represented as a percentage of the reserved CPU that's currently in use.
MySQL connectionscloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/network/connections
The number of connections held by the database instance.
Ingress/egress bytescloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/network/received_bytes_count
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/network/sent_bytes_count
The network traffic in terms of the number of ingress bytes (bytes received) and egress bytes (bytes sent) to and from the instance, respectively.
Memory componentscloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/memory/components
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/queries
The number of statements executed by the server. This includes statements executed within stored programs, such as stored procedures and functions. MySQL questions
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/questions
The number of statements executed by the server. This includes only the statements sent to the server by the clients and not the statements executed within stored programs. MySQL network traffic
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/received_bytes_count
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/sent_bytes_count
The number of bytes received from and sent to the clients. InnoDB pages
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/innodb_buffer_pool_pages_dirty
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/innodb_buffer_pool_pages_free
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/innodb_buffer_pool_pages_total
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/innodb_data_fsyncs
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/innodb_os_log_fsyncs
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/innodb_pages_read
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/innodb_pages_written
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/open_tables
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/opened_table_count
open_tables
is the number of tables currently open.
opened_table_count
is the number of tables that the database has opened since the last sample.
opened_table_count
is consistently high, we recommend that you increase the value of table_open_cache
. MySQL table definition cache
cloudsql.googleapis.com/database/
mysql/open_table_definitions
cloudsql.googleapis.com/database/
mysql/opened_table_definitions_count
open_table_definitions
is the number of table definitions that are currently open. opened_table_definitions_count
is the number of times the database has opened a table definition since the last sample. If the value of opened_table_definitions_count
is consistently high, we recommend that you increase the value of table_definition_cache
. InnoDB data dictionary memory usage
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/mysql/innodb/dictionary_memory
table_definition_cache
sets a soft limit on the number of tables in this cache. However, tables with foreign key relationships are kept in cache until the database shuts down or restarts. This cache can consume a significant amount of memory if your instance has many tables with foreign key relationships. Disk storage by type
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/disk/bytes_used_by_data_type
The breakdown of instance disk usage by data types, such as data
, binlog
, and tmp_data
. This metric helps you understand your storage costs. For more information about storage usage charges, see Storage and networking pricing.
Point-in-time recovery (PITR) uses binary logs. Cloud SQL generates new logs regularly and these logs use storage space. Cloud SQL automatically deletes the binary logs and their associated automatic backups. This generally happens after the retention value set for transactionLogRetentionDays
is met. transactionLogRetentionDays
is the number of days for which Cloud SQL retains the transaction logs. Its value ranges from 1
to 7
.
To avoid unexpected storage issues while using PITR, we recommend that you enable automatic storage increases.
Disk read/write opscloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/disk/read_ops_count
cloudsql.googleapis.com/
database/disk/write_ops_count
read_ops_count
indicates the delta count of disk read I/O operations. You can use this metric to understand whether your instance is correctly sized for your environment. If required, you can switch to a larger machine type to serve more requests from cache and reduce latency.
write_ops_count
indicates the delta count of disk write I/O operations. Cloud SQL instances, barring replicas, write to a system table, approximately, every second.
logging.googleapis.com/
log_entry_count
For more information, see Cloud SQL metrics.
Events timelineThe dashboard provides the details of the following events:
Event name Description Operation typeInstance restart
Restarts the Cloud SQL instance RESTART
Instance failover
Initiates a manual failover of a high availability (HA) primary instance to a standby instance, which becomes the primary instance. FAILOVER
Instance maintenance
Indicates that the instance is currently in maintenance. Maintenance typically causes the instance to be unavailable for 1 to 3 minutes. MAINTENANCE
Instance backup
Performs an instance backup. BACKUP_VOLUME
Instance update
Updates the settings of a Cloud SQL instance. UPDATE
Promote replica
Promotes a Cloud SQL replica instance. PROMOTE_REPLICA
Start replica
Starts replication on a Cloud SQL read replica instance. START_REPLICA
Stop replica
Stops replication on a Cloud SQL read replica instance. STOP_REPLICA
Recreate replica
Recreates resources for a Cloud SQL replica instance. RECREATE_REPLICA
Create replica
Creates a Cloud SQL replica instance. CREATE_REPLICA
Data import
Imports data into a Cloud SQL instance. IMPORT
Instance export
Exports data from a Cloud SQL instance to a Cloud Storage bucket. EXPORT
Restore backup
Restores a backup of a Cloud SQL instance. This operation might cause your instance to restart. RESTORE_VOLUME
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Last updated 2025-08-14 UTC.
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