How to Manage Connection Details for Vultr Managed Databases for MySQL

1 min readUpdated 23 October 2026

Locate the host, port, username, password, connection string, and SSL certificate the mysql client needs on Vultr.

Managed database connection details consist of host, port, username, password, default database, connection strings, and SSL certificates. These credentials allow you to connect to the managed databases from your favorite database client or modern programming language libraries. These include MySQL command line client (mysql), MySQL Connector/Python (mysql-connector-python), Go MySQL Driver (go-sql-driver/mysql), and PHP Data Objects (PDO).

Follow this guide to manage connection details for Vultr Managed Databases for MySQL using the Vultr Console, API, CLI, or Terraform.

Navigate to Products and select Databases.
Click the target database instance.
Navigate to Connection Details under Overview.
Click Copy Connection String.
Click Copy MySQL URL.
Click Download Signed Certificate and save the certificate.

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