Warning
SingleStore 9.0 gives you the opportunity to preview, evaluate, and provide feedback on new and upcoming features prior to their general availability. In the interim, SingleStore 8.9 is recommended for production workloads, which can later be upgraded to SingleStore 9.0.
Dedicated Admin Connections
To log in to a dedicated admin connection, you should first log in to the machine where the master aggregator is running.
Then execute:
singlestore -u root --socket '/<installationpath>/data/memsql.sock' -p
Note
You can use either the SingleStore command-line tool or the MySQL command line tool.
This uses a Unix domain socket to designate that this is a dedicated admin connection.
Once you log in, if commands do not run, you can kill connections and queries to free resources to allow others to connect to the system.
A similar approach will also allow you to log on to a leaf node directly, if necessary.
Here is an example of how to setup a dedicated admin connection:
sh-4.4# cd /var/lib/memsql
sh-4.4# ls
5871bce2-e2fa-4934-ad92-5fb842c74fef a36fb148-c8e2-4132-a7cd-c7694e43336d nodes.hcl nodes.hcl.lock
sh-4.4# cd a36fb148-c8e2-4132-a7cd-c7694e43336d/
sh-4.4# ls
auditlogs data memsql.cnf plancache tracelogs
sh-4.4# cd data
sh-4.4# ls
blobs ingest_staging memsql_id memsqld.pid roots staging_bottomless
datetime_to_version logs memsql_proxy.sock memsqld_safe.pid snapshots tempblobs
ephemeral_errors memsql.sock memsql_role persisted_errors spill temprestoreblobs
sh-4.4# ls -tla memsql_proxy.sock
srwxrwxrwx 1 memsql memsql 0 Nov 4 22:03 memsql_proxy.sock
sh-4.4# pwd
/var/lib/memsql/a36fb148-c8e2-4132-a7cd-c7694e43336d/data
sh-4.4# singlestore -u root --socket '/var/lib/memsql/a36fb148-c8e2-4132-a7cd-c7694e43336d/data/memsql.sock' -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 58
Server version: 5.7.32 MemSQL source distribution (compatible; MySQL Enterprise & MySQL Commercial)
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Last modified: April 25, 2025