topic Re: Permissions for MySQL Monitoring Extension in Extensions

Permissions for MySQL Monitoring Extension

technical_admin — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 07:48:00 GMT

When trying to enable the extension I have to provide a user/password. However there is no indication what permissions this user account needs to have. Is it enough if he has the MonitorAdmin permissions?

Re: Permissions for MySQL Monitoring Extension

Jakub_Mierzewsk — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 08:24:37 GMT

We don't require any special permissions. MonitorAdmin permissions should be enough.

Re: Permissions for MySQL Monitoring Extension

giovanni_gibili — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 08:15:22 GMT

For those who were wandering MonitorAdmin is the Workbench name for the PROCESS permission on MySQL. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/privileges-provided.html#priv_process

Re: Permissions for MySQL Monitoring Extension

Jakub_Mierzewsk — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 07:56:43 GMT

In MySQL monitoring we use show global status (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/show-variables.html) and show global variables (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/show-status.html)
they don’t
require any specific privileges, only an ability to connect to the server is
needed.

Re: Permissions for MySQL Monitoring Extension

kalle_lahtinen — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 07:26:37 GMT

Thanks Jakub! This is the only place where I found this info. I wonder why there's no setup documentation for the MySQL plugin, like there is e.g. for https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/technology-support/application-software/other-technologies/supported-out-of-the-box/postgresql/

https://www.dynatrace.com/support/help/technology-support/application-software/other-technologies/supported-out-of-the-box/mysql/ returns 404.

Re: Permissions for MySQL Monitoring Extension

gsaharan — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:40:56 GMT

Hi everyone,

We are process with the installation of this extension, do we know any extra permission that is still required for this extension, as i see this blog to be pretty old.

Re: Permissions for MySQL Monitoring Extension

david_lopes — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:35:07 GMT

The permissions and even the GRANT statements are documented in the extension docs: https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe/applications-and-microservices/databases/extensions/mysql-remote-monitoring-v2