# How can we prevent PMM queries from appearing in the RDS MySQL slow query log?

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**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)\
**Tags:** pmm, mysql\
**Created:** [January 21, 2026, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-can-we-prevent-pmm-queries-from-appearing-in-the-rds-mysql-slow-query-log/40079 "2026-01-21T08:08:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![srinivasms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@srinivasms](https://forums.percona.com/u/srinivasms)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2026, 8:08am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-can-we-prevent-pmm-queries-from-appearing-in-the-rds-mysql-slow-query-log/40079/1 "2026-01-21T08:08:41Z")

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## Description:

- we have around 2000 rds mysql instance being monitored by the PMM
- we have set the long\_query\_time set to 1 sec
- some times the pmm queries also get logged in the slow query log , which we dont want.
- how we can avoid the pmm queries get logged in the rds slow query log.

## Steps to Reproduce:

we tried “–extra-dsn-params="long\_query\_time=999999” but not helping .

## Version:

percona/pmm-server:3  
Pmm-admin version : Version: 3.5.0

## Expected Result:

- pmm queries should not get logged in the slow query log

## Actual Result:

- currently the pmm queries are getting logged in the slow query log

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**Author:** ![ademidoff](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/ademidoff/32/14234_2.png) [@ademidoff](https://forums.percona.com/u/ademidoff)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2026, 9:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-can-we-prevent-pmm-queries-from-appearing-in-the-rds-mysql-slow-query-log/40079/2 "2026-01-22T21:29:06Z")

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Hi,

For us to be able to narrow down the scope, could you please give a couple examples of queries you don’t want to be logged?

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**Author:** ![Aldo\_Junior](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/aldo_junior/32/23071_2.png) [@Aldo\_Junior](https://forums.percona.com/u/Aldo_Junior)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-can-we-prevent-pmm-queries-from-appearing-in-the-rds-mysql-slow-query-log/40079/3 "2026-01-24T22:32:36Z")

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> [@srinivasms](#):
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> currently the pmm queries are getting logged in the slow query log

Hi **[Srinivasms](https://forums.percona.com/u/srinivasms),** welcome to the forum.

I don’t think we have this possibility. Once you set `log_query_time=1`, queries that reach this value will be collected in the MySQL slow query log file. If these queries are not desired for your analysis, you can ignore, for example, using `–filter` in `pt-query-digest`.

```shell
pt-query-digest --filter '(defined $event->{user} ? $event->{user} : "") !~ m/pmm/' mysql-slowquery.log > mysql-slowquery.digested.log

```

Best regards,

Aldo