They represent the number of connections selected from the pool matched with connections with certain credentials. If the connection pool is used by applications that have multiple user credentials, the jdbc connection pool attribute match-connections can be set to true.
The connection pool matches the request's credential with the connections in the pool and returns a matched connection for use. For new requests with different credentials, unmatched free connections are automatically purged to provide new connections to satisfy the new requests.
These monitoring values are the cumulative values of the total number of connections that were matched or not matched.
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