Inspections and recommendations in Managed Service for MySQL®

Managed database clusters regularly undergo diagnostics to detect possible issues, increase the cluster's reliability, and improve its performance. The results of such checks are displayed as inspections under Recommendations. You can see notifications about successful checks and recommendations on eliminating discovered risks. The responsibility to troubleshoot any detected issues lies within the Yandex Cloud user's remit.

All checks have a severity level:

• High level: Criteria of high cluster availability, significant risks of reduced performance, data loss risks. Such checks warrant special attention and require following the recommendations provided.
• Moderate level: Possible risks of reduced performance, suboptimal memory and disk space usage.
• Low level: Potential risks and cluster operation limitations.

The list of recommendations is updated regularly. For each recommendation, the following timestamps are fixed: the date of the risk's first detection and the date of the most recent status update on this issue. If the recommendation seems to be excessive or incorrect, you can hide it, specifying a reason. Once the hiding period expires, the recommendation will automatically become available again if the issue persists.

Recommendations are available at the cluster, folder, and cloud levels and provide tips for all your resources. However, the absence of recommendations does not mean that your cluster is optimized: the list of checks gets continuously appended but still remains incomprehensive and cannot replace monitoring, since it is targeted at detecting patterns rather than specific issues. You can additionally run cluster performance diagnostics and analyze monitoring metrics.

Managing recommendations in Managed Service for MySQL® requires the managed-mysql.editor role or higher.

Available inspections in Managed Service for MySQL®Available inspections in Managed Service for MySQL®

Category	Check	Risk	Severity
Performance	CPU usage	Risk of reduced performance	High
High availability	Availability of synchronous replicas in a cluster	Risk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone (replica) failure	High
High availability	Memory allocation	Lack of RAM	High
High availability	Allocating disk space	Risk of cluster unavailability	High
High availability	High cluster availability during zone failure	Risk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone failure	High
High availability	High cluster availability in the event of a zone failure (quorum)	Risk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone failure (quorum)	High
High availability	Disk autoscaling feature	Disk space autoscaling is limited	Moderate

Risk of reduced performanceRisk of reduced performance

Description

The host continuously uses all CPU resources, which may cause delays in query processing. Check the load and optimize your queries (which may include using the WebSQL AI assistant) or increase the cluster's computing resources.

Action

To increase the cluster's computing resources:

1. Navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.
2. Select your cluster and click Edit.
3. Under Host compute resources, select a host class with the required amount of vCPUs.
4. Click Save changes.

Risk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone (replica) failureRisk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone (replica) failure

Description

The cluster uses only asynchronous replicas, which does not guarantee fault tolerance. Add at least one synchronous replica to another zone to ensure high availability.

Action

To migrate hosts from one availability zone to another, do the following:

1. Create a subnet in the target availability zone for the hosts.

2. Add a host to your cluster: navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.

3. Click the cluster name and navigate to the Hosts tab.

4. Click Create host.

5. Specify the following host settings:

   • Target availability zone for your hosts.
   • New subnet.
   • To make the host accessible from outside Yandex Cloud, select Public access.

6. Click Save.

7. Delete the hosts in the source availability zone.

Not enough RAMNot enough RAM

Description

The cluster is running out of RAM, which leads to slow performance or emergency shutdowns. Increase the cluster's RAM.

Action

To increase the amount of RAM:

1. Navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.
2. Select your cluster and click Edit.
3. Under Host compute resources, select a host class with the required amount of RAM.
4. Click Save changes.

Risk of cluster unavailabilityRisk of cluster unavailability

Description

Your host is critically low on free space. Some operations may be disabled, while the whole cluster may become unavailable, i.e., switch to read-only mode. Increase the disk size or clear unused data.

Action

To increase the disk size:

1. Navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.
2. Select your cluster and click Edit.
3. Under Storage, increase the disk size.
4. Click Save changes.

Risk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone failureRisk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone failure

Description

All cluster hosts are in the same availability zone. In case the zone fails, the cluster becomes unavailable. Put replicas in different zones to ensure high availability.

Action

To add a host to another zone:

1. Navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.
2. Select the cluster and open the Hosts tab.
3. Click Create host.
4. In the host parameters, specify an alternative availability zone.
5. Finish configuring the host and click Save.

Risk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone failure (quorum)Risk of data loss and cluster unavailability in the event of a zone failure (quorum)

Description

The number of hosts required to confirm a transaction is less than the maximum number of hosts per availability zone. To avoid data loss in case the zone fails, replace the Rpl semi sync master wait for slave count value with one larger than the number of host per availability zone, or migrate some of the hosts to other availability zones.

Action

To migrate hosts from one availability zone to another, do the following:

1. Create a subnet in the target availability zone for the hosts.

2. Add a host to your cluster: navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.

3. Click the cluster name and navigate to the Hosts tab.

4. Click  Create host.

5. Specify the following host settings:

   • Target availability zone for your hosts.
   • New subnet.
   • To make the host accessible from outside Yandex Cloud, select Public access.

6. Click Save.

7. Delete the hosts in the source availability zone.

To change the Rpl semi sync master wait for slave count value:

1. Navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.
2. Select your cluster and click Edit in the top panel.
3. Change the setting by clicking Settings under DBMS settings.
4. Save your changes.

For more on the quorum setting, see MySQL® settings.

Disk space autoscaling is limitedDisk space autoscaling is limited

Description

The autoscaling limit has been reached, so the cluster cannot increase its disk space when needed. Update the cluster’s autoscaling settings and increase the limit.

Action

To update autoscaling settings:

1. Navigate to Managed Service for MySQL.
2. Select your cluster and click Edit in the top panel.
3. In the advanced Automatic increase of storage size cluster settings, select In the maintenance window when full at more than and specify the of the current size is full percentage to trigger a storage expansion during the next maintenance window.