triaging-live-sql-activity - Diagnose live CockroachDB SQL activity
Diagnoses live CockroachDB performance issues by finding long-running queries, busy sessions, active transactions, and their source applications through SQL.
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Updated: 2026-09-28Capabilities
What this skill does
- Identify long-running queries
- Correlate sessions and applications
- Inspect transaction retry counts
- Filter by application, user, client
- Generate cancellation SQL
- Cancel runaway queries or sessions
Inputs
- CockroachDB SQL connection
- Cluster visibility privileges
- Optional duration thresholds
- Optional application, user, or client filters
- Optional query or session identifiers
Outputs
- Live query findings
- Active session findings
- Long-running transaction findings
- Application and client correlations
- Cancellation SQL statements
- Query or session cancellation status
Requirements
- CockroachDB SQL access
- VIEWACTIVITY or VIEWACTIVITYREDACTED for cluster-wide visibility
- Basic SQL execution knowledge
- CANCELQUERY or CANCELSESSION for cancellation operations
