Check the Startup time and Uptime of MySQL
Check the last startup time of MySQL
SELECT DATE_SUB(now(), INTERVAL variable_value SECOND) "LAST STARTUP" from performance_schema.global_status where variable_name='Uptime';
+----------------------------+ | LAST STARTUP | +----------------------------+ | 2019-06-13 12:39:31.000000 | +----------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Check the uptime of MySQL
mysql> select TIME_FORMAT(SEC_TO_TIME(VARIABLE_VALUE ),'%Hh %im') as Uptime from
performance_schema.global_status where VARIABLE_NAME='Uptime';
+---------+ | Uptime | +---------+ | 43h 46m | +---------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Uptime in Seconds
Note: The uptime is in seconds.
mysql> SHOW GLOBAL STATUS LIKE 'Uptime';
+---------------+--------+ | Variable_name | Value | +---------------+--------+ | Uptime | 157840 | +---------------+--------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Check more detail about MySQL including uptime, character-set, port number
mysql> \s
-------------- C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 8.0\bin\mysql.exe Ver 8.0.16 for Win64 on x 86_64 (MySQL Community Server - GPL) Connection id: 36 Current database: Current user: root@localhost SSL: Cipher in use is DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 Using delimiter: ; Server version: 8.0.16 MySQL Community Server - GPL Protocol version: 10 Connection: localhost via TCP/IP Server characterset: utf8mb4 Db characterset: utf8mb4 Client characterset: cp850 Conn. characterset: cp850 TCP port: 3306 Uptime: 1 day 19 hours 45 min 4 sec Threads: 4 Questions: 1449 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 348 Flush tables: 3 Open tables: 249 Queries per second avg: 0.009 --------------
Check the uptime from Workbench
Login with Workbench and go to adminstrator tab –> Server Status –> Running since will show uptime and start time
