# Enable tablestats for Aurora MySQL

**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/enable-tablestats-for-aurora-mysql/17893
**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
**Tags:** pmm
**Created:** [October 6, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/enable-tablestats-for-aurora-mysql/17893 "2022-10-06T23:25:22Z")
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### Author: ![brianestrada658](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@brianestrada658](https://forums.percona.com/u/brianestrada658)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/enable-tablestats-for-aurora-mysql/17893/1 "2022-10-06T23:25:22Z")

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I am specifically interested in enabling the [tablestats](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/setting-up/client/mysql.html#tablestats) for Aurora MySQL RDS. But is this feature just for the regular MySQL only?

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### Author: ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/enable-tablestats-for-aurora-mysql/17893/2 "2022-10-07T01:41:03Z")

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Hello @brianestrada658,  
This is a feature of PMM and should work on any flavor of MySQL, Aurora included. You can enable Tablestats when you add the instance to PMM. See screenshot.

 ![Screen Shot 2022-10-06 at 8.40.27 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/2X/9/90df65aa682788fa10825a574b294e50a0d4e38b.png)

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### Author: ![brianestrada658](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@brianestrada658](https://forums.percona.com/u/brianestrada658)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/enable-tablestats-for-aurora-mysql/17893/3 "2022-10-07T14:07:55Z")

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Oh! I didn’t noticed that. It would have been if that was enabled by default. Quick question, so I have started monitoring an RDS instance for over a month already and I want to enable the Table statistics. Is there a way to do it without destroying the node and letting PMM re-discover the node? My fear is that PMM will wipe out the data that it already had for this node which would be a waste.

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### Author: ![matthewb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/matthewb/32/34_2.png) [@matthewb](https://forums.percona.com/u/matthewb)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/enable-tablestats-for-aurora-mysql/17893/4 "2022-10-07T15:07:39Z")

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Hello @brianestrada658,  
I was told by one of our senior PMM engineers that you can remove it and re-add and you won’t lose the data. Just make sure you have all the settings the same, especially ‘Service Name’ as that’s how the data is stored internally.

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### Author: ![brianestrada658](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@brianestrada658](https://forums.percona.com/u/brianestrada658)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2022, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/enable-tablestats-for-aurora-mysql/17893/5 "2022-10-07T15:23:11Z")

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Thank you!! Would love it if this was documented somewhere.