How can I see and terminate the active sessions on my mariadb?

Question

Hi! We have a Mariadb rds (db.m5.xlarge) and lately I've seen that under "Current activity" the amount of sessions goes crazy high which creates a big problem for our app as it starts refusing new connections. When this is happening the CPU Util% remains low. My question is, how can I see and possibly terminate sessions through cli or the console?

Appreciate your help!

Answer

Hello.

The number of sessions can be checked with the following command.  
```
show status like 'Threads_connected';
```
You can check the process being processed with the following command.  
```
show processlist;
```
You can erase the process by specifying the process ID with the following command.  
```
kill processId;
```

How can I see and terminate the active sessions on my mariadb?

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