This document describes PostgreSQL specific alerts; for general instance alerts such as load, or disk usage see Environment Alerts. Alert Types: The Connections Check Checkpoint Alerts Snaplock Warnin...
MySQL tools are administrative tools that are available for your instances to assist you in managing and maintaining your application and database. Some of these tools are installed on database instan...
MySQL servers operating on Stable-v4 2.0.123, Stable-v5 3.0.30, or any versions of Stable-v6 and Stable-v7 stacks can support SSL based connections to the database. This document describes how to ver...
The default MySQL configuration file, /etc/mysql/my.cnf, is managed by Chef and is completely recreated with defaults every time an instance is restarted (that is, terminated and recreated). Configura...
When Engine Yard Cloud creates an environment, it creates a PostgreSQL or MySQL database for the application and EBS volume called /db to store the data. When you set up your environment, enable email...
When an Engine Yard Cloud environment is created, a database is set up for the application and a database.yml file is generated. The database.yml file contains key information about your database. The...
Overview If you have an account with Engine Yard and wish to enhance your service by adding Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service) as a selectable option, you may find that this option is not readil...
Engine Yard stack upgrades often include minor version upgrades to MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. However, if you have a highly sensitive application with critical uptime requirements, you might want...
Reasons for copying databases tables to/from different environments: You have multiple applications using independent tables within a single database that you want to deploy as independent environment...
In general, it is not critical that all connections be stopped prior to a promotion as the script will promote in a safe fashion. Ideally, you do want connections associated with background work to wr...