PolarDB：Autonomy center

Prerequisites

Your cluster is a PolarDB for MySQL cluster of Cluster Edition, Multi-master Cluster (Database/Table) Edition, or X-Engine Edition. This feature is not supported on the cluster of Single Node Edition. For more information about the editions of PolarDB, see Editions.

Usage notes

Only the PolarDB for MySQL clusters whose product type is pay-as-you-go support automatic scale-out and automatic scale-in. Subscription clusters do not support automatic scale-out or automatic scale-in. For more information, see Purchase a pay-as-you-go cluster.

Procedure

1. Log on to the PolarDB console.

2. In the top navigation bar, select the region in which the cluster that you want to manage is deployed.

3. On the Clusters page, click the ID of the cluster.

4. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Diagnostics and Optimization > Quick Diagnostics.

5. On the page that appears, click the Autonomy Center tab.

   

6. In the upper-right corner, click Autonomy Service Settings.

   

7. In the Autonomous Function Management dialog box, click the Autonomous Function Settings tab.

   Note

   After you enable the autonomy service, capacity evaluation, session analytics, throttling SQL analytics, and snapshot saving upon exceptions are automatically performed. These operations do not cause extra loads to the database.

   

8. Specify the following parameters: Automatic Index Creation and Deletion, Automatic Throttling, Automatic Scale-up/out, and Automatic Scale-down/in.

   • Automatic Index Creation and Deletion: After you turn on Enable Autonomy, the SQL Diagnostics Only feature is automatically enabled.

     • SQL Diagnosis Only: DAS performs daily diagnostics on SQL statements and provides index optimization suggestions. However, DAS does not create indexes on your cluster.

     • SQL Diagnosis and Automatic Index Creation: DAS performs daily diagnostics on SQL statements, provides index optimization suggestions, and then creates indexes on your cluster based on these suggestions.

       Note

       Automatic SQL optimization creates indexes only during the O&M window of the cluster.

   • Automatic Throttling: You can specify conditions to trigger automatic SQL throttling. If the specified conditions are met, automatic SQL throttling is triggered.

     Note

     For example, automatic throttling is triggered if the following conditions are met during the period of time specified by the Current limiting period parameter (default value: 00:00 to 23:59): The CPU utilization is greater than 70%, the number of active sessions is greater than 16, and the duration is at least 2 minutes. In this case, the system automatically starts to check whether the conditions are met again when the automatic throttling is triggered. If the issue is not fixed, the system automatically rolls back the throttling operation. After automatic throttling is triggered, the duration of the throttling operation does not exceed the time specified by the Maximum Throttling Duration parameter. For more information, see Automatic SQL throttling.

   • Automatic Scale-up/out and Automatic Scale-down/in: You can enable these features and customize conditions. Scale-in and scale-out are automatically triggered when the specified conditions are met.

     Parameter	Description
     Auto Scaling-out	Specifies whether to enable the auto scaling feature.
     Observation Period	If the CPU utilization reaches the specified threshold during the observation period, PolarDB automatically adds nodes or upgrades the specifications of your cluster when the observation period ends. The system determines the scaling method based on the inbound read and write requests. The minimum observation period is 5 minutes, and a scaling activity needs 10 minutes to be completed. Therefore, it takes at least 15 minutes for the auto scaling to take effect. For example, if the observation period is 5 minutes and the time required to complete a scaling activity is 10 minutes, you must wait 15 minutes before you can check the scaling result. Note The scale-in observation window is equal to the observation window plus 10 minutes. For example, if the observation window is set to 30 minutes, the scale-in observation window is 40 minutes.
     CPU Usage	The threshold that is used to trigger automatic scale-out. If the CPU Usage is greater than or equal to the specified threshold, automatic scale-up is triggered.
     Maximum Specification	The maximum specifications to which the system can upgrade the cluster. After an automatic scale-up is triggered, the system scales up your PolarDB cluster to the maximum specifications in small increments. For example, the CPU specification can be upgraded from 4 cores to 8 cores, and then to 16 cores until the upper limit is reached.
     Maximum Number of Read-only Nodes	The maximum number of read-only nodes that can be automatically added to the cluster. After an auto scaling is triggered, the system adds one or two read-only nodes each time until the specified upper limit is reached. Note The nodes that are automatically added are associated with the default endpoint of your cluster. If you use a custom endpoint, you must specify whether these nodes are automatically associated with the endpoint by using the Automatically Associate New Nodes parameter. For more information about how to configure the Automatically Associate New Nodes parameter, see Configure PolarProxy. If you want the system to perform only scale-up and no scale-out, set this parameter to the current number of read-only nodes of the cluster. During a scale-up, transient connections occur to all nodes of the cluster. This does not occur during a scale-out.
     Auto Scaling-in	Specifies whether to enable automatic scale-back. Note After automatic scale-back is enabled, if the cluster is not in the quiescent period and the average CPU utilization of automatically scaled nodes remains at less than 30% for more than 99% of the scale-in observation window (the observation window plus 10 minutes), the cluster is scaled back tier-by-tier to the original specifications.
     Quiescent Period	The minimum interval between two scaling activities. During a quiescent period, PolarDB monitors the resource usage of a cluster but does not trigger scaling activities. If a quiescent period and an observation period end at the same time and the CPU utilization reaches the threshold within the observation period, PolarDB automatically triggers the auto scaling operation.

9. Click OK.