Designing for MaxScale's MariaDB Monitor

MaxScale's MariaDB Monitor (mariadbmon) monitors MariaDB replication deployments.

This page contains topics that need to be considered when designing applications that use the MariaDB Monitor.

• How does MariaDB Monitor perform automatic failover?

• How does the MariaDB Monitor use cooperative locking in a highly available MaxScale deployment?

Additional information is available here.

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