Database Traffic Control
2 days ago
- #Performance Optimization
- #Postgres
- #Database Management
- Postgres lacks built-in traffic management, making it vulnerable to performance degradation or crashes during query spikes.
- PlanetScale introduces Database Traffic Control™, enabling real-time resource budgeting and limits for queries via rules like query patterns, application names, users, and custom tags.
- Traffic Control allows setting limits on CPU, concurrency, and query timing, with modes for warning or enforcement to throttle or block excessive queries.
- Use cases include incident response for rogue queries, priority-based traffic shaping, isolating AI agent traffic, and prioritizing paid tiers in multi-tenant apps.
- Available via PlanetScale dashboard, API, and CLI, it supports automated budget creation and sqlcommenter tags for enhanced traffic categorization.