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Add MySQL DBI config translator and pipeline orchestrator#2196

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Summary

Add component translators and pipeline orchestrator for MySQL database monitoring via the OpenTelemetry pipeline, enabling the opentelemetry.collect.database_insights.mysql[] config section.

Continuation of #2176

Changes

Component translators:

  • MySQL receiver translator with functional options (endpoint, username, passfile, TLS, localhost detection)
  • Connectors: count/dbi_dbload_mysql (active session metrics) and signaltometrics/dbi_topsql_mysql (top query metrics)
  • Processor: transform/dbi_fix_start_time_mysql (timestamp correction)
  • Registers mysqlreceiver and adds JSON schema validation for mysql config

Pipeline orchestrator:

  • Generates per-instance metrics, log-to-metrics, raw events, and server logs pipelines from JSON config
  • MySQL-specific resource attributes, log group paths, and monitor user exclusion

Bug fix (new in this PR):

  • DB Load connector condition changed from processlist_command == "Query" to session.status != "idle" to correctly count prepared statement executions (Execute command) used by sysbench, ORMs, and JDBC applications

Tests

  • Unit tests for receiver translator, connector/processor creation, pipeline wiring
  • Golden YAML integration test
  • make build and make lint pass

Create the core MySQL receiver translator with functional options pattern:
- translator.go with endpoint, username, passfile, TLS, localhost detection
- translator_test.go with unit tests for all option functions
- Register mysqlreceiver.NewFactory() in defaultcomponents
- Add MySQLKey and MySQL DBI component name constants to common.go
- Add go.mod dependency on mysqlreceiver
Add YAML configs and translator wiring for MySQL DBI pipelines:
- dbi_dbload_mysql.yaml: count connector for active sessions by wait/user/db/sql/host
- dbi_topsql_mysql.yaml: signaltometrics connector for top query metrics
- transform_dbi_fix_start_time_mysql.yaml: transform processor for MySQL timestamps
- Update count, signaltometrics, and transform translators to handle MySQL component names
- Add unit tests for MySQL connector/processor creation
Add mysql[] array schema to database_insights in schema.json:
- endpoint, instance_name, username, password_file
- tls.ca_file for TLS configuration
- logs.file_path for server log ingestion
Extend the DBI pipeline orchestrator to support MySQL instances:
- Add translator_mysql.go with dbiMysqlTranslator implementing 4 pipeline types:
  - metrics/dbi_mysql_N: counter metrics + DBLoad/TopSQL from connectors
  - logs/dbi_mysql_N: log-to-metrics via count + signaltometrics connectors
  - logs/dbi_mysql_rawevents_N: raw query sample/top query events
  - logs/dbi_mysql_serverlogs_N: MySQL server log file ingestion
- Add parseDbiMysqlInstances() to parse mysql[] config array
- MySQL-specific resource attributes (db.system.name = "mysql")
- MySQL-specific log group paths and monitor user exclusion filter
- Unit tests for pipeline wiring with single/multiple instances
Add end-to-end config translation test for MySQL DBI:
- dbi_mysql_config_linux.conf: input agent config fixture
- dbi_mysql_config_linux.json: parsed JSON intermediate fixture
- dbi_mysql_config_linux.yaml: golden YAML output (full OTel pipeline)
- .mysql_credentials: test passfile for credential loading
- Register TestMySQLDbiConfig in tocwconfig_unix_test.go
- Unify the DBI pipeline translator: merge translator_mysql.go into a single
  dbiTranslator that branches by engine (carried on the instance config),
  instead of maintaining a separate MySQL translator.
- Make component naming consistent across engines using an engine suffix:
  count/dbi_dbload_<engine>, signaltometrics/dbi_topsql_<engine>,
  transform/dbi_fix_start_time_<engine>, and per-instance
  dbi_resource_<engine>_N, dbi_scope_<engine>_N, dbi_logs_<engine>_<dest>_N,
  dbi_exclude_monitor_<engine>_N. PostgreSQL components now carry the
  _postgresql suffix for consistency.
- Rename engine-specific connector/processor YAMLs for symmetry
  (dbi_dbload_postgresql.yaml, dbi_topsql_postgresql.yaml,
  transform_dbi_fix_start_time_postgresql.yaml); the connector and transform
  translators select the config by engine.
- Add the dbi_scope transform processor (cloudwatch.source/solution) to all
  MySQL pipelines, matching the PostgreSQL implementation.
- Use the shared named resourcedetection/opentelemetry processor.
- Add the validateOttlSafe check to the unified Translate() so username and
  instance_name are validated for both engines.
- Fix the host metrics process scraper to match the mysqld process (mysqld.*)
  when MySQL DBI is configured.
- Remove TLS/ca_file from the MySQL schema and receiver; MySQL DBI is
  localhost-only and always connects with TLS disabled.
- Fix the MySQL passfile test fixture to the pgpass-style format
  (host:port:database:username:password) and assert all seven DB Load metrics.
- Regenerate golden YAMLs (mysql, postgres, combined configs).
…upport

The CloudWatch Console (Cinch) creates separate SSM parameters for each
workload configuration (e.g. one for database-insights-postgres and one
for database-insights-mysql). When the agent loads multiple config files
from the .d/ directory, the config merger needs to deep-merge the
database_insights section so that both postgresql and mysql arrays
coexist.

Without this rule, the agent treats database_insights from two separate
config sources as conflicting values and drops one, causing missing
log groups in CloudWatch.

Register database_insights as a SectionMergeRule under the collect rule,
matching the existing pattern for opentelemetry and collect.
- Move the complete 14-metric Top SQL connector config (dbi_topsql_mysql.yaml)
  into this PR. The full metric set was previously committed in the MySQL
  workload-detection PR by mistake, which left this PR's embedded config with
  only 2 metrics while the golden YAML had 14 (mismatch that failed the
  translation unit tests). All 14 metrics match what the mysqlreceiver
  publishes on db.server.top_query events.
- Remove the user.name attribute from all Top SQL metrics: top queries come
  from events_statements_summary_by_digest, aggregated by digest and schema,
  so the receiver does not publish user.name on top_query events (validated
  against the forked mysqlreceiver RecordDbServerTopQueryEvent).
- Remove the duplicate dbiMysqlKey variable in favor of the shared
  common.DatabaseInsightsMysqlKey.
- Regenerate the MySQL golden YAML.
Update the test credential file to use the MySQL-native INI format
(Option C) with required host, port, user, and password fields.
@Klarsen04 Klarsen04 requested a review from a team as a code owner July 10, 2026 15:43
@Klarsen04 Klarsen04 added the ready for testing Indicates this PR is ready for integration tests to run label Jul 10, 2026
@Klarsen04 Klarsen04 force-pushed the larkirs/mysql-pipeline-translator branch from 0e04bbc to 28af3da Compare July 10, 2026 15:46
Points to amazon-contributing/opentelemetry-collector-contrib PR #577
which replaces pgpass format with .my.cnf INI format for MySQL DBI
credential files.
The DB Load connector condition only matched processlist_command ==
"Query", missing prepared statement executions ("Execute") used by
sysbench, ORMs, JDBC, and most real-world applications. This caused
DB Load metrics to undercount active sessions.

Replace the command-based filter with session.status != "idle" to
match all active sessions regardless of command type.
@Klarsen04 Klarsen04 force-pushed the larkirs/mysql-pipeline-translator branch from 28af3da to be7ef57 Compare July 14, 2026 19:10
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