Patterns for Postgres Traffic Control — PlanetScale Practical patterns for leveraging Database traffic Control

How do you build applications to get the most out of Traffic Control?

Our latest article covers patterns for categorizing, tagging, and budgeting your Postgres queries.

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Traffic Control lets you limit how much of your Postgres compute resources any one workload can consume.

You can warn, block, or do a mixture of both when queries exceed these limits.

High memory usage in Postgres is good, actually — PlanetScale A high memory percentage in PlanetScale Postgres is not necessarily a problem. Let's compare how memory and CPU usage are different, how not all memory usage is created equal, and which signals actual...

Postgres is using 80% of RAM, and that's a good thing.

But what's it actually doing with all that memory? At what point should you take action to mitigate usage?

Our latest blog breaks it down.

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Stripe Projects partnership: Provision PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL databases from the Stripe CLI — PlanetScale PlanetScale is a co-design and launch partner for the Stripe Projects developer preview, allowing you or your coding agents to provision and manage databases and other dev tools directly from the Stri...

We're excited to share we're partnering with Stripe as part of their Stripe Projects developer preview.

Create & manage PlanetScale Postgres + Vitess databases straight from the Stripe CLI. All of your dev tool provisioning and billing now centralized in one place.

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🧢 Stop by the PlanetScale booth if you're at SREcon for PlanetScale credits, hats, stickers, and great conversations about databases.

Enhanced tagging in Postgres Query Insights — PlanetScale Introducing query tagging improvements in Postgres Query Insights

Read more about this works:
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Query Insights just got way more powerful.

We now track tag metadata at the per-query level.

This allows you to filter queries by tag, see per-tag performance breakdowns, and set resource budgets with Traffic Control.

Introducing Database Traffic Control Postgres has a fundamental gap when it comes to managing query traffic. When an unexpected spike of bad queries, or runaway workload hits your database, Postgres has no good way to fight back. It acce...

We’ll be demoing Traffic Control and answering all your questions during our livestream today at 10AM PDT. Register here:

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DEMO: Protect your database with Traffic Control YouTube video by PlanetScale

See it in action in our Traffic Control walkthrough video:

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Behind the scenes: How Database Traffic Control works — PlanetScale Learn how Traffic Control enforces real-time limits on Postgres queries.

How it works:

1. Create budgets that target subsets of your query traffic

2. Specify which queries fall in those budgets based on query patterns, app names, custom tags, or Postgres users

3. Set the resource limits each budget can consume

Read more:

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Introducing Database Traffic Control — PlanetScale Enforce real-time limits on your Postgres query traffic to protect your database from runaway queries and unexpected load spikes.

Introducing Database Traffic Control: a Postgres traffic management system built into PlanetScale.

Enforce flexible budgets on your database traffic to protect against unexpected and dangerous workloads.

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Meet us at KubeCon EU Connect with the PlanetScale team at KubeCon EU

📅 Meet us at KubeCon EU next week! Our Neki, Vitess, and Solutions teams are on-site for demos, architecture deep dives, and to answer all your scaling questions. Request a meeting:

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pgrx, a modern framework for building PostgreSQL extensions in Rust, Tue, Mar 24, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup Join us for our next meetup featuring Patrick Reynolds from PlanetScale, who will share his insights on pgrx, a modern framework for building PostgreSQL extensions in Rust.

Want to learn how to build Postgres extensions in Rust? Our very own @piki.dev is doing a deep dive on pgrx at the Raleigh Triangle Postgres Users Group on March 24th, 5:30pm EDT.

Free food and great discussions. RSVP here: www.meetup.com/triangle-pos...

We are throwing a party with @PostHog & @PlanetScale @ KubeCon Amsterdam! If you want to join us for tacos, sliders, an open bar, and great company check out the link in 🧵.

When? Wednesday, March 25th | 6:30pm-9:30pm
Where? The Harbour Club | Amsterdam, Zuid

Scaling Postgres connections with PgBouncer — PlanetScale PgBouncer is the perfect pairing for Postgres's biggest weakness: connection management. Tuning it just right is important to make this work well, and here we cover everything you need to know

Read more:
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Postgres has a problem: connections.

PgBouncer is the solution, but it's not so simple.

We've got the guide for how to optimize your connections for any database size.

The PlanetScale plugin for Cursor is a huge unlock for database productivity.

Discover and apply schema recommendations, improve query performance, and work with your data in natural language.

Drizzle joins PlanetScale! | The Changelog YouTube video by PlanetScale

We've been shipping:

- New Terraform provider for Postgres + Vitess
- Reduced pricing for traffic over private connections
- New region: gcp-us-east1

And much more.

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PlanetScale protects production reliability with Bugbot · Cursor Bugbot saves PlanetScale the equivalent of two full-time engineers worth of review effort.

"If I took Bugbot away from our engineering team, there would be a mutiny."

How PlanetScale builds with Bugbot:

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Drizzle joins PlanetScale — PlanetScale Drizzle joins PlanetScale.

We're excited to announce Drizzle is joining PlanetScale!

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PlanetScale is now in the Cursor plugin marketplace.

Get our MCP + skills with just a few clicks.

Video Conferencing with Postgres — PlanetScale Stream real time video and audio through PostgreSQL on PlanetScale.

Ever wanted a Postgres-powered zoom call?

No? Well, here it is.

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The PlanetScale MCP server is now available as a Claude Connector.

Add now to Claude Desktop or Claude Web to query your database, get performance insights, and generate organizational reports.

AI Engineer Happy Hour · Luma Happy Hour at Convex HQ Join us at Convex HQ (444 De Haro) for an evening of drinks, conversation, and meaningful connections with the teams behind Profound,…

Join us tonight alongside the @convex and @tryprofound teams for a laid-back happy hour with other builders, founders, and engineers.

​🍸 Private bartender and curated drinks
🍽️ Great food
🤝 Amazing conversations

6pm at the Convex office. RSVP here:

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Modernizing Tonos Infrastructure Visit tonohealth.substack.com/p/modernizing-tonos-infrastructure

Tono migrated from RDS Postgres to PlanetScale. This gave them:

- Indexing insights, leading to material performance improvement
- Isolated branching for preview environments and schema changes
- Significantly lower query latency
- Cost reduction

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From Supabase to PlanetScale: Zero Downtime, 400GB, 150 Million Rows - Vitalize Our recent migration to PlanetScale ensures our platform can scale reliably in an industry where precision and speed directly affect patient care.

Vitalize migrated to PlanetScale and saw:

- P95 latency dropped to 2ms
- Heavy JSONB reads dropped from 50s -> 1.2s
- Half the vCPUs with better performance
- Actionable performance info with Query Insights

Read all about their migration:

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Faster PlanetScale Postgres connections with Cloudflare Hyperdrive — PlanetScale Build a real-time application with PlanetScale and the Cloudflare global network. Infrastructure choices you won't need to migrate away from once you hit scale.

Read all about it in our latest blog
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Faster database connections with Cloudflare Hyperdrive YouTube video by PlanetScale

PlanetScale + @cloudflare.social Hyperdrive is perfect for building globally-distributed apps with a high-performance and scalable database.

Today we dropped a deep-dive on how this works and why you should use it ⬇️

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Database Skills — AI Agent Skills for Databases by PlanetScale Database-focused skills for AI coding assistants. MySQL, Postgres, Vitess, and more. Built by PlanetScale.

Today we're launching our database skills for AI agents.

Give your agents the context they need to make good decisions and write better queries when working with Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, and Neki (coming soon).

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✉️ Expedite your migration to PlanetScale.

Email us at migrate@planetscale.com and our migration specialists will be in touch.