error:

Preprocessing failed for: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'zabbix'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
1. Failed: cannot extract XML value with xpath "/resultset/row[field/text()='Uptime']/field[@name='Value']/text()": cannot parse xml value: Start tag expected, '<' not found

Requirements for template operation:
1.Install Zabbix agent and MySQL client.
2.Copy template_db_mysql.conf into folder with Zabbix agent configuration (/etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.d/ by default). Don't forget to restart zabbix-agent.
3.Create MySQL user for monitoring. For example:
CREATE USER 'zbx_monitor'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
GRANT REPLICATION CLIENT,PROCESS,SHOW DATABASES,SHOW VIEW ON *.* TO 'zbx_monitor'@'%';
For more information read the MySQL documentation  https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/grant.html  , please. 
4.Create .my.cnf in home directory of Zabbix agent for Linux (/var/lib/zabbix by default) or my.cnf in c:\ for Windows. For example:
[client]
user='zbx_monitor'
password='<password>'


You can discuss this template or leave feedback on our forum  https://www.zabbix.com/forum/zabbix-suggestions-and-feedback/384189-discussion-thread-for-official-zabbix-template-db-mysql 

Template tooling version used: 0.42