When MySQL Enterprise Monitor evaluates an expression, it replaces variables with values. For example, part of the expression for the “MyISAM Key Cache Has Sub-Optimal Hit Rate” advisor calculates the hit rate as follows:
100-((%Innodb_buffer_pool_reads% / %Innodb_buffer_pool_read_requests%)*100)
        If the current value of
        %Innodb_buffer_pool_reads% is 4522 and the
        current value of
        %Innodb_buffer_pool_read_requests% is 125989,
        the hit ratio is 96.4%:
      
100 -((4522 / 125989) * 100)
        By convention, the Advisors supplied by MySQL use
        % as the delimiter, for example,
        %Key_reads%. This makes variables more
        readily identifiable.
      
        Variables can be used in the Description,
        Advice, Action, and
        Links attributes of a advisor, as well as in
        expressions. This lets you report the current value of an
        expression. For instance, you can add the message, “The
        current value of Innodb_buffer_pool_reads is
        %Innodb_buffer_pool_reads%.” to the
        Advice text box. When this is displayed on
        the screen, the value of
        %Innodb_buffer_pool_reads% is substituted
        into the text. If
        %%Innodb_buffer_pool_reads%% has a value of
        4522, the message becomes “The current
        value of Innodb_buffer_pool_reads is 4522.”