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 accepts every query thrown at it until performance degrades or, in the worst case, the server goes down.

Today we're introducing Database Traffic Control™ , a Postgres traffic management system built into PlanetScale that lets you enforce flexible budgets on your database traffic. With Traffic Control, you decide in real time how much of your database's resources any given workload is allowed to consume, and Postgres enforces those limits.

How it works

Traffic Control allows you to create budgets that target subsets of your query traffic.…