Capacity Planning for Database Growth
Databases rarely fail without warning — they usually fill up or slow down gradually as data accumulates. Capacity planning means watching those trends and acting early, so you upgrade on your own schedule rather than in the middle of an outage.
This article explains what we track and how we plan ahead.
What Grows Over Time
- Stored data — rows, attachments and indexes.
- Query load as your user base expands.
- Backup size and the time backups take to run.
Planning from Trends
By recording growth month on month, we can project when disk space, memory or CPU will become a constraint. That turns a looming emergency into a routine, scheduled upgrade.
Levers We Can Pull
- Archive or remove data that is no longer active.
- Add resources — disk, memory or a larger instance.
- Introduce read replicas to share query load.
- Tune queries and indexes to do more with the same hardware.
If you need a hand with any of this, your Progressive Robot delivery team is ready to help. Raise a ticket from the Support area of your client portal or speak to your account manager and we will guide you through the next steps.