Hey there! We've found the following might help you get unblocked faster:

• 🧵 Metrics of a Service

• 🧵 Configurable Monitoring Alerts in Observability Panel (Beta)

• 🧵 RAM Usage Billing Doesn't Match Actual Usage - Need Clarification

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If you check the usage tab on your DB, you can see the resources that your DB is using. There wouldn't be more vertical scaling we would do, if your DB needs the CPU, it can use the CPU. There are however other things we can check to see what might be impacting performance. Things such as if you are using the public network, or queries you are doing.

Can you share some metrics about the DB performance that you can see that can be made faster?

I meant to use the DB as an example but this is more of a general question. Is a single instance the same as an ec2 instance? If I increase the # of instances to 2 is it then halving the allocated resources for a single instance?

Great question.

No, each instance isn't sharing the same quota. You'd just get 2x the resources. We can't scale DBs like that because volumes and services are 1:1 but for say queue workers, you'd get a new CPU budget for each instance, up to 64 cores in this case (32 x 2).