ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON is a mix of the EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON and

ANALYZE statement features. ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON $statement

will execute $statement, and then print the output of
EXPLAIN FORMAT=JSON, amended with the data from query
execution.

Basic Execution Data

You can get the following also from tabular ANALYZE

statement form:
r_rows is provided for any node that reads rows. It shows
how many rows were read, on average
r_filtered is provided whenever there is a condition that is
checked. It shows the percentage of rows left after checking
the condition.

Advanced Execution Data

The most important data that is not available in tabula

ANALYZE statement are:
r_loops field. This shows how many times the node was
executed. Most query plan elements have this field.
r_total_time_ms field. It shows how much time in total was
spent executing this node. If the node has subnodes, their
execution time is included.
r_buffer_size field. Query plan nodes that make use of
buffers report the size of buffer that was was used.

Data About Individual Query Plan Nodes

filesort node reports whether sorting was done with LIMIT n

parameter, and how many rows were in the sort result.
block-nl-join node has r_loops field, which allows to tell
whether Using join buffer was efficient
range-checked-for-each-record reports counters that show the
result of the check.
expression-cache is used for subqueries, and it reports how
many times the cache was used, and what cache hit ratio was.
union_result node has r_rows so one can see how many rows
were produced after UNION operation
and so forth

Use Cases

See Examples of ANALYZE FORMAT=JSON.

URL: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/library/analyze-format-json/