How to Manage Upgrade Window for Vultr Managed Databases for MySQL

1 min readUpdated 23 October 2026

Choose the day and time Vultr Managed MySQL upgrades to the newest version, ideally off-peak, to avoid downtime.

Managing the Upgrade window for Vultr Managed Databases for MySQL allows you to set a suitable day and time when your managed database upgrades to the newest version. Upgrading improves security, fixes bugs, and downloads new features. You should set the upgrade schedule when your database application is less busy to avoid downtime for the end-users.

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

Navigate to Products and select Databases.
Click the target database instance.
Click Settings then Upgrade Window.
Select the day of the week and the time and click Apply Changes.

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