#### 27.12.2.3 The setup\_instruments Table

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 The [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) table lists classes of instrumented objects for which events can be collected:

```
mysql> SELECT * FROM performance_schema.setup_instruments\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
         NAME: wait/synch/mutex/pfs/LOCK_pfs_share_list
      ENABLED: NO
        TIMED: NO
   PROPERTIES: singleton
   VOLATILITY: 1
DOCUMENTATION: Components can provide their own performance_schema tables.
               This lock protects the list of such tables definitions.
...
*************************** 369. row ***************************
         NAME: stage/sql/executing
      ENABLED: NO
        TIMED: NO
   PROPERTIES:
   VOLATILITY: 0
DOCUMENTATION: NULL
...
*************************** 687. row ***************************
         NAME: statement/abstract/Query
      ENABLED: YES
        TIMED: YES
   PROPERTIES: mutable
   VOLATILITY: 0
DOCUMENTATION: SQL query just received from the network. At this point,
               the real statement type is unknown, the type will be
               refined after SQL parsing.
...
*************************** 696. row ***************************
         NAME: memory/performance_schema/metadata_locks
      ENABLED: YES
        TIMED: NULL
   PROPERTIES: global_statistics
   VOLATILITY: 1
DOCUMENTATION: Memory used for table performance_schema.metadata_locks
...
```

 Each instrument added to the source code provides a row for the [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) table, even when the instrumented code is not executed. When an instrument is enabled and executed, instrumented instances are created, which are visible in the `*`xxx`*_instances` tables, such as [`file_instances`](performance-schema-file-instances-table.html) or [`rwlock_instances`](performance-schema-rwlock-instances-table.html).

 Modifications to most [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) rows affect monitoring immediately. For some instruments, modifications are effective only at server startup; changing them at runtime has no effect. This affects primarily mutexes, conditions, and rwlocks in the server, although there may be other instruments for which this is true.

 For more information about the role of the [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) table in event filtering, see [Section 27.4.3, “Event Pre-Filtering”](performance-schema-pre-filtering.html).

 The [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) table has these columns:

* `NAME`

   The instrument name. Instrument names may have multiple parts and form a hierarchy, as discussed in [Section 27.6, “Performance Schema Instrument Naming Conventions”](performance-schema-instrument-naming.html). Events produced from execution of an instrument have an `EVENT_NAME` value that is taken from the instrument `NAME` value. (Events do not really have a “name,” but this provides a way to associate events with instruments.)

* `ENABLED`

   Whether the instrument is enabled. The value is `YES` or `NO`. A disabled instrument produces no events. This column can be modified, although setting `ENABLED` has no effect for instruments that have already been created.

* `TIMED`

   Whether the instrument is timed. The value is `YES`, `NO`, or `NULL`. This column can be modified, although setting `TIMED` has no effect for instruments that have already been created.

   A `TIMED` value of `NULL` indicates that the instrument does not support timing. For example, memory operations are not timed, so their `TIMED` column is `NULL`.

   Setting `TIMED` to `NULL` for an instrument that supports timing has no effect, as does setting `TIMED` to non-`NULL` for an instrument that does not support timing.

   If an enabled instrument is not timed, the instrument code is enabled, but the timer is not. Events produced by the instrument have `NULL` for the `TIMER_START`, `TIMER_END`, and `TIMER_WAIT` timer values. This in turn causes those values to be ignored when calculating the sum, minimum, maximum, and average time values in summary tables.

* `PROPERTIES`

   The instrument properties. This column uses the [`SET`](set.html) data type, so multiple flags from the following list can be set per instrument:

  * `global_statistics`: The instrument produces only global summaries. Summaries for finer levels are unavailable, such as per thread, account, user, or host. For example, most memory instruments produce only global summaries.

  * `mutable`: The instrument can “mutate” into a more specific one. This property applies only to statement instruments.

  * `progress`: The instrument is capable of reporting progress data. This property applies only to stage instruments.

  * `singleton`: The instrument has a single instance. For example, most global mutex locks in the server are singletons, so the corresponding instruments are as well.

  * `user`: The instrument is directly related to user workload (as opposed to system workload). One such instrument is `wait/io/socket/sql/client_connection`.

* `VOLATILITY`

   The instrument volatility. Volatility values range from low to high. The values correspond to the `PSI_VOLATILITY_*`xxx`*` constants defined in the `mysql/psi/psi_base.h` header file:

  ```
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_UNKNOWN 0
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_PERMANENT 1
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_PROVISIONING 2
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_DDL 3
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_CACHE 4
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_SESSION 5
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_TRANSACTION 6
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_QUERY 7
  #define PSI_VOLATILITY_INTRA_QUERY 8
  ```

   The `VOLATILITY` column is purely informational, to provide users (and the Performance Schema code) some hint about the instrument runtime behavior.

   Instruments with a low volatility index (PERMANENT = 1) are created once at server startup, and never destroyed or re-created during normal server operation. They are destroyed only during server shutdown.

   For example, the `wait/synch/mutex/pfs/LOCK_pfs_share_list` mutex is defined with a volatility of 1, which means it is created once. Possible overhead from the instrumentation itself (namely, mutex initialization) has no effect for this instrument then. Runtime overhead occurs only when locking or unlocking the mutex.

   Instruments with a higher volatility index (for example, SESSION = 5) are created and destroyed for every user session. For example, the `wait/synch/mutex/sql/THD::LOCK_query_plan` mutex is created each time a session connects, and destroyed when the session disconnects.

   This mutex is more sensitive to Performance Schema overhead, because overhead comes not only from the lock and unlock instrumentation, but also from mutex create and destroy instrumentation, which is executed more often.

   Another aspect of volatility concerns whether and when an update to the `ENABLED` column actually has some effect:

  * An update to `ENABLED` affects instrumented objects created subsequently, but has no effect on instruments already created.

  * Instruments that are more “volatile” use new settings from the [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) table sooner.

   For example, this statement does not affect the `LOCK_query_plan` mutex for existing sessions, but does have an effect on new sessions created subsequent to the update:

  ```
  UPDATE performance_schema.setup_instruments
  SET ENABLED=value
  WHERE NAME = 'wait/synch/mutex/sql/THD::LOCK_query_plan';
  ```

   This statement actually has no effect at all:

  ```
  UPDATE performance_schema.setup_instruments
  SET ENABLED=value
  WHERE NAME = 'wait/synch/mutex/pfs/LOCK_pfs_share_list';
  ```

   This mutex is permanent, and was created already before the update is executed. The mutex is never created again, so the `ENABLED` value in [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) is never used. To enable or disable this mutex, use the [`mutex_instances`](performance-schema-mutex-instances-table.html) table instead.

* `DOCUMENTATION`

   A string describing the instrument purpose. The value is `NULL` if no description is available.

 The [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) table has these indexes:

* Primary key on (`NAME`)

[`TRUNCATE TABLE`](truncate-table.html) is not permitted for the [`setup_instruments`](performance-schema-setup-instruments-table.html) table.

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 As of MySQL 8.0.27, to assist monitoring and troubleshooting, the Performance Schema instrumentation is used to export names of instrumented threads to the operating system. This enables utilities that display thread names, such as debuggers and the Unix **ps** command, to display distinct [**mysqld**](mysqld.html) thread names rather than “mysqld”. This feature is supported only on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

 Suppose that [**mysqld**](mysqld.html) is running on a system that has a version of **ps** that supports this invocation syntax:

```
ps -C mysqld H -o "pid tid cmd comm"
```

 Without export of thread names to the operating system, the command displays output like this, where most `COMMAND` values are `mysqld`:

```
  PID   TID CMD                         COMMAND
 1377  1377 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1528 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1529 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1530 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1531 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1534 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1535 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1588 /usr/sbin/mysqld            xpl_worker1
 1377  1589 /usr/sbin/mysqld            xpl_worker0
 1377  1590 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1594 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
 1377  1595 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
```

 With export of thread names to the operating system, the output looks like this, with threads having a name similar to their instrument name:

```
  PID   TID CMD                         COMMAND
27668 27668 /usr/sbin/mysqld            mysqld
27668 27671 /usr/sbin/mysqld            ib_io_ibuf
27668 27672 /usr/sbin/mysqld            ib_io_log
27668 27673 /usr/sbin/mysqld            ib_io_rd-1
27668 27674 /usr/sbin/mysqld            ib_io_rd-2
27668 27677 /usr/sbin/mysqld            ib_io_wr-1
27668 27678 /usr/sbin/mysqld            ib_io_wr-2
27668 27699 /usr/sbin/mysqld            xpl_worker-2
27668 27700 /usr/sbin/mysqld            xpl_accept-1
27668 27710 /usr/sbin/mysqld            evt_sched
27668 27711 /usr/sbin/mysqld            sig_handler
27668 27933 /usr/sbin/mysqld            connection
```

 Different thread instances within the same class are numbered to provide distinct names where that is feasible. Due to constraints on name lengths with respect to potentially large numbers of connections, connections are named simply `connection`.

