# How to disable the default collect metric?

**URL:** https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-disable-the-default-collect-metric/21548
**Category:** Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
**Created:** [April 21, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-disable-the-default-collect-metric/21548 "2023-04-21T09:34:17Z")
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### Author: ![JasonTJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@JasonTJ](https://forums.percona.com/u/JasonTJ)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2023, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-disable-the-default-collect-metric/21548/1 "2023-04-21T09:34:17Z")

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Hello guys,

I would like disable some collection like : --disbale-collectors=perf\_schema.eventsstatements

Seem it’s not working. How can I disable it?

Thanks  
Jason

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### Author: ![Parag\_Bhayani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/parag_bhayani/32/3710_2.png) [@Parag\_Bhayani](https://forums.percona.com/u/Parag_Bhayani)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2023, 3:53pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-disable-the-default-collect-metric/21548/2 "2023-04-27T15:53:30Z")

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Hi @JasonTJ ,

Collectors are used by PMM to get metrics. PMM starts the MongoDB exporter by default only with `diagnosticdata` and `replicasetstatus` collectors enabled.

From your statement, it seems like you are trying to disable collections. In PMM, you can mention the database/collections for which you want to collect stats by using “–stats-collections”

> –stats-collections=db1,db2.col1

For more details, kindly refer to below Percona documention -

> **[Percona Monitoring and Management - pmm-admin - PMM Administration Tool](https://docs.percona.com/percona-monitoring-and-management/details/commands/pmm-admin.html#examples)**
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> Documentation

**NOTE:** Collectors in PMM does not mean mongodb collections

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### Author: ![JasonTJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d78d45/32.png) [@JasonTJ](https://forums.percona.com/u/JasonTJ)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-disable-the-default-collect-metric/21548/3 "2023-04-28T02:36:15Z")

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@Parag_Bhayani

Thanks for your updates!

I would like to disable some metrics collection for MYSQL database：

LIke ： --disbale-collectors=perf\_schema.eventsstatements

It does not work.

Thanks  
Jason

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### Author: ![Parag\_Bhayani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/parag_bhayani/32/3710_2.png) [@Parag\_Bhayani](https://forums.percona.com/u/Parag_Bhayani)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2023, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-disable-the-default-collect-metric/21548/4 "2023-05-07T12:05:17Z")

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Hi @JasonTJ

Thanks for the clarification. From the above statement below are 2 points which needs modification.

1. Spell check for “–disbale-collectors” ==\> It should be “ **–disable-collectors** ”
2. Modification in collector “perf\_schema.eventsstatements” ==\> It should be “ **perf\_schema.events\_statements** ”

Below are the list of collectors for MySQL from github repo.

> **[mysqld\_exporter/collector at main · percona/mysqld\_exporter](https://github.com/percona/mysqld_exporter/tree/main/collector)**
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> main/collector

Regards,  
Parag