Understanding Monitors in MaxScale

In MariaDB MaxScale, monitors perform the following tasks:

• Deciding whether a server is up or down.

• Deciding whether a server is the primary server or a replica server.

• Performing automatic failover when the primary server fails (for certain kinds of deployments).

Monitors Supported by MaxScale

MaxScale supports different monitors for different kinds of deployments:

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