# PMM server is not receiving metrics from client

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382>\
**Category:** PMM 3.x\
**Tags:** pmm, mysql, percona\
**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382 "2025-06-19T10:45:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sumit\_sarova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sumit_sarova/32/21301_2.png) [@Sumit\_sarova](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sumit_sarova)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/1 "2025-06-19T10:45:26Z")

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Recently, we received a PMM client update request. After updating the agents on all monitored nodes, the system has stopped functioning as expected. Specifically, the inbuilt dashboards are no longer displaying the required data correctly, although everything was working fine prior to the update.

To troubleshoot this issue, I have already:

- Reconfigured both the PMM server and the PMM clients.
- Followed the official documentation and troubleshooting steps available online.
- Verified the `pmm-server` status and `inventory list`, both of which indicate that all components are running properly.

Despite these efforts, the issue persists

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**Author:** ![nurlan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/nurlan/32/1523_2.png) [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/2 "2025-06-19T11:53:42Z")

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Hi @Sumit_sarova

1. can you share what version of PMM Server and PMM client are you using?
2. Is it MySQL, PostgreSQL or MongoDB?
3. Can you run pmm-admin summary and check for errors in logs
4. Can you call https://PMM\_SERVER\_URL/logs.zip and check errors there?
5. From which version to which you have upgraded?
6. Did you upgrade only PMM Cleints or PMM Server as well?

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**Author:** ![Sumit\_sarova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sumit_sarova/32/21301_2.png) [@Sumit\_sarova](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sumit_sarova)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/3 "2025-06-19T12:33:53Z")

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Hi @nurlan  
attaching the screenshots for your reference for version info and logs.  
It is for MYSQL  
PMM server was updated automatically and I manually updated the pmm-client.  
can’t give any confirmation of the last version.

 ![errorlogs](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/3X/0/1/017d5c730fc9da7d0ba177f34605d786ac24765c.png)  
 ![pmm-client](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/3X/1/3/132a2cb676c1e1b0778e9930c366a5b5e77c4fde.png)

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**Author:** ![nurlan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/nurlan/32/1523_2.png) [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/4 "2025-06-19T13:29:03Z")

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Can you share logs for mysqld\_exporter?

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**Author:** ![Sumit\_sarova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sumit_sarova/32/21301_2.png) [@Sumit\_sarova](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sumit_sarova)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/5 "2025-06-20T04:58:22Z")

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![mysqld_logs](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/3X/4/d/4d700e5e9cdb2bb5db0ae5f65c86e7875f6f2fbc.png)  
attached the logs, as it is visible there is some connection issue and we tried to solve it,  
please suggest something if you have any solution for this.

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**Author:** ![Abhinav\_Gupta](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/abhinav_gupta/32/6262_2.png) [@Abhinav\_Gupta](https://forums.percona.com/u/Abhinav_Gupta)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 10:10am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/6 "2025-06-20T10:10:42Z")

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Your mysqld\_exporter is trying to ping the MySQL instance on 127.0.0.1:3306. Can you check manually if you are able to telnet 127.0.0.1 3306 or manually connect to MySQL using 127.0.0.1 on 3306? Also, check the netstat -tnlp or bind address of MySQL.

Please note that your initial PMM client for MySQL was configured for the address 10.110.128.196:3306.

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**Author:** ![Sumit\_sarova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sumit_sarova/32/21301_2.png) [@Sumit\_sarova](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sumit_sarova)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 10:26am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/7 "2025-06-20T10:26:31Z")

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Hi,  
we have disabled telnet so sharing the output of nc -vz, pls check.

 ![nc -vz](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/3X/7/e/7ee54a732138cfcae15673be6f1c9727d2950cc0.png)

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**Author:** ![Sumit\_sarova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sumit_sarova/32/21301_2.png) [@Sumit\_sarova](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sumit_sarova)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/8 "2025-06-23T05:57:51Z")

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Anyone have any solution for this…  
@nurlan @Abhinav_Gupta

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**Author:** ![Naresh9999](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/naresh9999/32/5568_2.png) [@Naresh9999](https://forums.percona.com/u/Naresh9999)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 7:39am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/9 "2025-06-23T07:39:15Z")

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Hi @Sumit_sarova

Could you please delete the service account related to that server, re-register the agent, and try once?

Hope you’re using the same version of the PMM server and client.

PMM server: 3.2.0  
PMM Client: 3.2.0

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/3X/b/b/bbf449680a520447eb70ed37433ffa965892bba6.png)

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**Author:** ![Sumit\_sarova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sumit_sarova/32/21301_2.png) [@Sumit\_sarova](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sumit_sarova)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/10 "2025-06-23T09:12:11Z")

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after investigation we found pmm-client version 3.2.0 is not compatible with pmm-server 3.2.0, so after downgrading pmm-client 3.1.0 it is working as expected, I suggest the community do the same procedure if anyone faces the same issue.

sudo apt install pmm-client=3.1.0-7.noble

 ![working](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/percona1/original/3X/b/e/be59d8b88ef80ae064e94a04d807c4ccdc558bb9.png)

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 9:17am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/11 "2025-06-23T09:17:26Z")

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@Sumit_sarova Can you please upgrade the agent to 3.2.0 and try once?

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/12 "2025-06-23T09:22:18Z")

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I tried many times with PMM Client: 3.2.0 but it didn’t work.

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 9:26am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/13 "2025-06-23T09:26:43Z")

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@Sumit_sarova

Can you try deleting the all service accounts related to the server and try re-register the agent?

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**Author:** ![Sumit\_sarova](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/sumit_sarova/32/21301_2.png) [@Sumit\_sarova](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sumit_sarova)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/14 "2025-06-23T10:08:55Z")

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yes tried this also but still it didn’t work as expected

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 10:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/15 "2025-06-23T10:28:47Z")

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@Sumit_sarova Can you check if the PMM user password contains any special characters like $ or # or something like these?

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/16 "2025-06-23T10:36:19Z")

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it wasn’t password issue, as the same password was working earlier and working with the current version that I am using.

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**Author:** ![Naresh9999](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/naresh9999/32/5568_2.png) [@Naresh9999](https://forums.percona.com/u/Naresh9999)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/17 "2025-06-23T11:36:06Z")

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@Sumit_sarova

Please check this.

> [@After upgrade the agent from 3.1.0 to 3.2.0 agent then MariaDB service state always Down (MariaDB 10.6 version or higher versions)](https://forums.percona.com/t/after-upgrade-the-agent-from-3-1-0-to-3-2-0-agent-then-mariadb-service-state-always-down-mariadb-10-6-version-or-higher-versions/38223/2):
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> Once the ‘$’ symbol is eliminated from the password and the password is updated, the issue is fixed. @nurlan Thank you so much for your timely assistance. Maybe we should not include the special character symbols in the password going forward?

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**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/18 "2025-06-23T12:10:30Z")

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thanks for this info, but no $ or # special character in the password.

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**Author:** ![nurlan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/nurlan/32/1523_2.png) [@nurlan](https://forums.percona.com/u/nurlan)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/19 "2025-06-24T19:13:31Z")

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Hi @Sumit_sarova,  
Can you share version of MySQL?

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**Post date:** [June 25, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-server-is-not-receiving-metrics-from-client/38382/20 "2025-06-25T07:28:06Z")

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Hi,  
mysql Ver 8.0.42-0ubuntu0.24.04.1 for Linux on x86\_64 ((Ubuntu)), this is the version I am using
