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The latest PlanetScale features and product launches.

April 17, 2024
New feature

Global replica credentials

Today, we're introducing the ability to create global replica credentials for your PlanetScale database.

With replica credentials, it makes it easier to query your database's replicas and read-only regions by creating a password dedicated for replica use. These new credentials will be routed to the nearest read-only region with the lowest latency as new regions are added or removed without any code changes or even needing to reconnect.

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March 29, 2024
Improvement

Insights anomaly webhook

You can now enable webhooks for database anomalies. With this new hook you can notify your team when PlanetScale has detected slower than expected queries on your database.

The webhook event is branch.anomaly and includes the full database branch information in the payload.

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March 13, 2024
New feature

Monthly spend alerts

We’ve released an improvement to the billing page. You can now set spend alerts for your PlanetScale Organization.

To enable monthly spend alerts, go to your organization billing page, click "Enable spend alerts", and enter the maximum spend amount. Organization admins will receive an email once monthly spend hits 75% and 100%.

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February 29, 2024
Improvement

CPU and memory metrics now in Datadog

We are now publishing the CPU and memory usage of each database branch's primary node to Datadog. You can graph these metrics by using the planetscale.primary.cpu_usage and planetscale.primary.memory_usage metric names within your Datadog widgets and notebooks.

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February 28, 2024
New feature
Schema recommendations

Schema recommendations

Today, we’re releasing schema recommendations inside of PlanetScale Insights.

With schema recommendations, you will automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic.

Schema recommendations uses query-level telemetry to generate tailored recommendations in the form of DDL statements that can be applied directly to a database branch and then deployed to production.

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February 16, 2024
Update

Foreign key constraints are now generally available

To enable foreign key constraints in any unsharded PlanetScale database, go to your database’s ”Settings” page and check the box to Allow foreign key constraints.

On the database’s ”Dashboard” page, you will see a loading spinner that says it is “Enabling foreign key constraints.” Once it no longer shows, you can use foreign key constraints in your PlanetScale database!

For most cases, foreign key constraints should work as expected in PlanetScale. There are a few cases to be aware of that are unsupported or result in less ideal behavior. You can read more in the limitations section of the foreign key constraints documentation.

If you don’t have an existing PlanetScale database and have an existing internet-accessible MySQL or MariaDB databases that use foreign key constraints, you can also import it into PlanetScale using our database import tool.

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February 15, 2024
Update

Safe migrations on development branches

You can now enable safe migrations on development branches. With safe migrations enabled on a branch, you’ll gain zero-downtime schema migrations, schema reverts, and protection against accidental schema changes. Also, now you can use a development branch with safe migrations enabled to set up a workflow with a “staging” branch. Previously, only production branches could have safe migrations enabled.

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February 6, 2024
Update
OAuth applications are now in public beta

OAuth applications are now in public beta

OAuth applications are now available to all PlanetScale users in a public beta. An OAuth application in PlanetScale allows you to get authorization from your users for which organizations and databases the PlanetScale API can interact with.

If you are interested in building on top of PlanetScale and allowing your users to authenticate with PlanetScale to gain management access to their organizations and databases, you can create your OAuth application in your PlanetScale organization’s Settings > OAuth applications page.

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February 5, 2024
Update

Deprecating Scaler plan

We are committed to remaining the best database for serverless and real-world applications that require massive scale. To support this effort, we are deprecating the Scaler plan. Beginning February 12th 2024, you will no longer be able to create a new Scaler database clusters.

Read the announcement blog post for more information.

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November 28, 2023
New feature
Insights Anomalies

Insights Anomalies

Today, we released a new addition to PlanetScale Insights — Anomalies. Anomalies are defined as events where a percentage of slow-running queries substantially increases over a period of time.

The new Anomalies tab in Insights warns you of any anomalies that have occurred in the last 24 hours, with additional information about:

  • The query that triggered the anomaly
  • CPU utilization
  • Memory
  • IOPS
  • Queries per second
  • Rows written per second
  • Rows read per second
  • Errors per second
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November 2, 2023
New feature

Fivetran integration

You can now extract data from PlanetScale and use it as a data source in your extract, load, and data transformation (ELT) processes with Fivetran.

It is available today in private preview to Fivetran users. You can request access to the PlanetScale connector from within Fivetran. See our Fivetran integration documentation for more info.

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October 26, 2023
New feature

Webhooks

We have added webhooks to PlanetScale. With webhooks, you can trigger an HTTP POST callback to a configured URL when a specific event occurs within your PlanetScale organization. You can use webhooks from PlanetScale to build custom integrations, notifications, and automate other workflows.

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Oct 16, 2023
New feature
Database reports

Database reports

Starting today, you'll receive a weekly email for your most active PlanetScale database that recaps from the previous week:

  • Slow database queries
  • Deploy requests
  • Database storage changes

Initially, all users will be subscribed to weekly reports for the most active database in their organizations. You can unsubscribe directly from the email or in your user settings.

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August 15, 2023
New feature

IP restrictions

Starting today, you can add an extra layer of security in connecting to your database by defining which IP addresses can connect to each database branch. Giving your organization the tools you need to operate your databases securely is a top priority, and IP restrictions, launching today in beta, are one additional way to provide an extra layer of security.

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August 15, 2023
New feature
Password details page

Password details page

You can now view the details of your database’s passwords on a new page, including renaming a password, setting IP ranges that can connect to the database with the IP restrictions feature, copying and pasting pre-generated code, and more.

Find the page in your database’s “Settings” tab > “Passwords” section > select the password you want to see the details for.

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August 14, 2023
Update

Google Cloud Platform general availability and read-only regions support

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) regions in PlanetScale are now generally available in select regions, and read-only regions are now available in all supported GCP regions. As of today, there are 15 different regions across AWS and GCP where you can deploy your PlanetScale database.

For supported regions, see our regions documentation and see our read-only regions documentation to learn more about read-only regions in PlanetScale.

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August 9, 2023
Update

2023 SOC 2+ HIPAA

PlanetScale's latest SOC 2 Type II report covering the period of June 16, 2022 to June 15, 2023 is now available to customers. In addition to coverage over existing trust services criteria, the latest report includes additional controls mapped to the HIPAA Security Rule requirements.

To receive a copy of the report, please contact Support or visit our Trust Portal.

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July 27, 2023
Update
PlanetScale Boost is now in public beta

PlanetScale Boost is now in public beta

PlanetScale Boost is now available to all PlanetScale users in a public beta. PlanetScale Boost is a built-in database caching engine that requires no additional infrastructure, no cache invalidation, and up to 1,000× better query performance for your boosted queries.

If you are a current PlanetScale user, check your email for a “Welcome to PlanetScale Boost” email with a special coupon code to try out Boost today for free for a limited time.

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July 6, 2023
Improvement

Scaler Pro plan

We’re replacing our ‘Teams’ plan with a new ‘Scaler Pro’ offering that combines the best of our current plans and enterprise offerings for companies of all sizes. These plans allow customers to select exactly the resources they need for their workloads.

Scaler Pro databases are priced on a combination of resources (CPU and memory) and disk storage. Every database has a ‘cluster size’ encompassing the components that make up a PlanetScale database.

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May 31, 2023
Improvement
Database overview page

Database overview page

We just released an update to the PlanetScale UI database overview page. You now get a much more transparent view of what's happening under the hood with your PlanetScale database. This update surfaces important information about your database, such as:

  • Load balancers and availability zones
  • Primary and replica databases
  • Replication lag
  • Database shards
  • And more

For more information, see our Pulling back the curtain: the new database overview page blog post.

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