Scale a database

You can increase the resources available to a database, including CPU and memory, storage space, and number of replicas. You should monitor your addon to identify bottlenecks.

You can also make use of high-availability strategies for many addons, to ensure availability and enable automatic fail-over.

See Northflank pricing plans for compute plans available on Northflank's managed cloud, as well as storage and network egress costs.

You can increase the vCPU and memory dedicated to an addon on the resources page. Some databases have higher requirements than others, meaning lower compute plans will be unavailable for them.

You can increase the storage space dedicated to a database on the resources page.

You cannot reduce the storage space assigned to a database after increasing it, either manually or automatically.

Configure disk auto-resize

You can enable disk auto-resize on your addon's resources page to automatically increase its storage when the volume reaches a selected usage threshold. Disk auto-resize is available when the underlying storage supports volume expansion.

You can configure the following options:

• Resize threshold: select 75% or 90% volume usage. The default threshold is 90%.
• Set maximum size: optionally limit the storage size that the addon can automatically grow to.

When the volume reaches the selected threshold, Northflank increases it to the next supported storage size. A volume can be automatically resized at most once every six hours and, if you set a maximum size, will not grow beyond it.

Saving the disk auto-resize configuration restarts the addon. Subsequent automatic storage increases do not restart the addon. You will be billed for the increased storage from the time the volume is resized.

You can increase the number of replica sets your database will use to improve availability, each replica set contains a copy of the database.

Database replicas can be scaled up from the resources page, but cannot be scaled down. Any increase will be permanent.