mysqladmin is an administration program for the mysqld daemon. It can be used to:

• Monitor what the MariaDB clients are doing (processlist)
• Get usage statistics and variables from the MariaDB server
• Create/drop databases
• Flush (reset) logs, statistics and tables
• Kill running queries.
• Stop the server (shutdown)
• Start/stop slaves
• Check if the server is alive (ping)

From MariaDB 10.4.6, mariadb-admin is a symlink to mysqladmin.

Using mysqladmin

The command to use mysqladmin and the general syntax is:

mysqladmin [options] command [command-arg] [command [command-arg]] ...

Options

mysqladmin supports the following options:

Option Files

In addition to reading options from the command-line, mysqladmin can also read options from option files. If an unknown option is provided to mysqladmin in an option file, then it is ignored.

The following options relate to how MariaDB command-line tools handles option files. They must be given as the first argument on the command-line:

In MariaDB 10.2 and later, mysqladmin is linked with MariaDB Connector/C. However, MariaDB Connector/C does not yet handle the parsing of option files for this client. That is still performed by the server option file parsing code. See MDEV-19035 for more information.

Option Groups

mysqladmin reads options from the following option groups from option files:

mysqladmin Variables

Variables can be set with --variable-name=value.

mysqladmin Commands

mysqladmin [options] command [command-arg] [command [command-arg]] ...

Command is one or more of the following. Commands may be shortened to a unique prefix.

The shutdown Command and the --wait-for-all-slaves Option

When a master server is shutdown and it goes through the normal shutdown process, the master kills client threads in random order. By default, the master also considers its binary log dump threads to be regular client threads. As a consequence, the binary log dump threads can be killed while client threads still exist, and this means that data can be written on the master during a normal shutdown that won't be replicated. This is true even if semi-synchronous replication is being used.

In MariaDB 10.4 and later, this problem can be solved by shutting down the server with the mysqladmin utility and by providing the --wait-for-all-slaves option to the utility and by executing the shutdown command with the utility. For example:

mysqladmin --wait-for-all-slaves shutdown

When the --wait-for-all-slaves option is provided, the server only kills its binary log dump threads after all client threads have been killed, and it only completes the shutdown after the last binary log has been sent to all connected slaves.

See Replication Threads: Binary Log Dump Threads and the Shutdown Process for more information.

Examples

Quick check of what the server is doing:

shell> mysqladmin status
Uptime: 8023 Threads: 1 Questions: 14 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 15 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 8 Queries per second avg: 0.1
shell> mysqladmin processlist
+----+-------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
| Id | User | Host | db | Command | Time | State | Info |
+----+-------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+
....
+----+-------+-----------+----+---------+------+-------+------------------+

More extensive information of what is happening 'just now' changing (great for troubleshooting a slow server):

shell> mysqladmin --relative --sleep=1 extended-status | grep -v " 0 "

Check the variables for a running server:

shell> mysqladmin variables | grep datadir
| datadir | /my/data/ |

Using a shortened prefix for the version command:

shell> mysqladmin ver
mysqladmin Ver 9.1 Distrib 10.1.6-MariaDB, for debian-linux-gnu on x86_64
Copyright (c) 2000, 2015, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.

Server version		10.1.6-MariaDB-1~trusty-log
Protocol version	10
Connection		Localhost via UNIX socket
UNIX socket		/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
Uptime:			1 hour 33 min 33 sec

Threads: 1 Questions: 281 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 64 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 76 Queries per second avg: 0.050

Other Ways To Stop mysqld (Unix)

If you get the error:

mysqladmin: shutdown failed; error: 'Access denied; you need (at least one of) the SHUTDOWN privilege(s) for this operation'

It means that you didn't use mysqladmin with a user that has the SUPER or SHUTDOWN privilege.

If you don't know the user password, you can still take the mysqld process down with a system kill command:

kill -SIGTERM pid-of-mysqld-process

The above is identical to mysqladmin shutdown.

On windows you should use:

NET STOP MySQL

With MariaDB 10.0 and newer you can use the SHUTDOWN command from any client.

See Also

• SHUTDOWN command
• mytop, a 'top' like program for MariaDB/MySQL that allows you to see what the server is doing. A mytop optimized for MariaDB is included in MariaDB 5.3