How to enable Show Engine Innodb Status

How to enable Show Engine Innodb Status

Are you trying to see the latest deadlocks or foreign key errors but run in to the following error:

[Error Code: 1227, SQL State: 42000] Access denied; you need (at least one of) the PROCESS privilege(s) for this operation

When this happens you will need to grant your user the PROCESS privilege.

GRANT SELECT, PROCESS ON *.* TO '<youruser>'@'localhost';

Creating a new user to view Show Engine Innodb Status

Sometimes you find that a client or yourself wants to view Show Engine Innodb Status and they want a new user to do this with.

Here are the standard commands to create and grant them the privileges:

CREATE USER '<newuser>'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
GRANT SELECT, PROCESS ON *.* TO '<newuser>'@'%';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

This is the bare minimum to enable them to run (Show Engine Innodb Status)