# Maintenance DB in production

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maintenance-db-in-production/35865>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** database\
**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maintenance-db-in-production/35865 "2020-06-22T04:52:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![eccornelsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@eccornelsen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/eccornelsen)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maintenance-db-in-production/35865/1 "2020-06-22T04:52:20Z")

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Hi,  
What are some key good practices for DB maintenance, such as:

- Important metrics in the DB to monitor during production?
- What type of scripts we can run on the DB for maintenance?
- Partitioning DB?
- etc  
Thanks