Monitoring

cloudnative-mysql instances expose Prometheus metrics on port 9187 at /metrics. The metrics server is separate from the mTLS control API and the health probe server.

The current exporter publishes built-in Go runtime metrics plus MySQL global status metrics from SHOW GLOBAL STATUS. For Group Replication clusters, the operator also publishes cluster-level GR metrics (see below). More MySQL scraper families and custom query loading are planned as M13.1 continues.

Group Replication metrics

The operator exposes Group Replication metrics on its /metrics endpoint under the cnmysql namespace. These reflect the operator's own cross-validated view of each GR cluster and are read from the manager's cached client at scrape time:

Metric	Description
cnmysql_cluster_gr_has_quorum	1 if the group has quorum, 0 otherwise.
cnmysql_cluster_gr_bootstrapped	1 if the group has been bootstrapped.
cnmysql_cluster_gr_view_size	The sticky maximum group size used as the quorum denominator.
cnmysql_cluster_gr_members	Members per state (ONLINE, RECOVERING, OFFLINE, ERROR, UNREACHABLE).

Labels are namespace and cluster. Async clusters emit nothing. Alert on cnmysql_cluster_gr_has_quorum == 0 for any GR cluster to catch quorum loss.

Ad-hoc metrics inspection

Scrape an instance's current metrics directly from your terminal:

kubectl cnmysql metrics <cluster>                # primary
kubectl cnmysql metrics <cluster> <instance>     # specific instance
kubectl cnmysql metrics <cluster> -w             # refresh every 2s
kubectl cnmysql metrics <cluster> --filter=mysql_global_status_threads

The plugin opens an mTLS port-forward to the instance manager and scrapes /metrics. This is useful for debugging and quick checks, not for production monitoring. Use the PodMonitor for Prometheus integration.

PodMonitor

When the Prometheus Operator CRDs are installed, cloudnative-mysql can create an owned PodMonitor for a cluster:

apiVersion: mysql.cloudnative-mysql.io/v1alpha1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
  name: cluster-sample
spec:
  monitoring:
    enablePodMonitor: true

The generated PodMonitor selects pods with:

cloudnative-mysql.io/cluster: <cluster-name>

and scrapes the named container port metrics.

Authenticated metrics over TLS

By default the metrics endpoint is served over plain HTTP. Setting spec.monitoring.tls.enabled switches it to mutual TLS, reusing the same PKI as the control API: the instance presents its server certificate and requires the scraper to present a client certificate signed by the cluster CA.

apiVersion: mysql.cloudnative-mysql.io/v1alpha1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
  name: cluster-sample
spec:
  monitoring:
    enablePodMonitor: true
    tls:
      enabled: true

No extra certificates are needed. The instance Pods already mount the server-tls certificate and the client-ca bundle. When a PodMonitor is generated, cloudnative-mysql wires the scrape-side TLS configuration automatically:

• the endpoint scheme becomes https;
• the cluster CA secret (<cluster>-ca, key ca.crt) verifies the server cert;
• the operator client certificate (<cluster>-client-tls) authenticates the scrape;
• the read Service hostname (<cluster>-r.<namespace>.svc), a SAN present on every instance certificate, is used as the verified server name.

Prometheus must be able to read those secrets in the cluster's namespace to mount the client certificate and CA.

Custom queries

customQueriesConfigMap, customQueriesSecret, disableDefaultQueries, and metricsQueriesTTL are API fields for the custom-query collector. The endpoint is available now; query loading and default query injection are the next M13.1 slice.