How to check the status of the MySQL service?

1 year ago

Sophia Anderson

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You can check the status of the MySQL service in the following ways:

To check the status of MySQL service, use the command line tool by opening the command line terminal and entering the following command.
Check the status of the MySQL service.
If the MySQL service is running, it will display Active: active (running).
Utilize system monitoring tools like htop or top to display all running processes, including the MySQL service. Open the system monitoring tool and locate the process for the MySQL service.
To use the MySQL client, you can connect to the MySQL server and execute the following SQL statement to view the server status.
Display the global status for ‘Threads_connected’.
If the returned result is greater than 0, it means that the MySQL service is running.
To check MySQL log files: The MySQL service writes log information to log files. You can determine the status of the MySQL service by checking the MySQL error log file. The location of the log files can be found in the MySQL configuration file.

No matter which method you use, you can determine if the MySQL service is running by checking its status.