Why PMM User need Super privileges?

[matthewb]

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Super privileges for pmm user

Hi PavelS, There are a couple of reasons we ask for SUPER privileges: With MySQL there is the concept of exhausting all available connections up to max_connections server variable, however since 5.1 MySQL permits one more connection to those users with SUPER - the thinking here is that we still allow the monitoring application to log in and provide an understanding of what is going on within the server, in order to troubleshoot. Without this connection, you will be blind. Without SUPER we wil…