diff --git a/maxscale/reference/maxscale-filters/maxscale-workload-capture-and-replay.md b/maxscale/reference/maxscale-filters/maxscale-workload-capture-and-replay.md index b05359cc7..4ced4d44f 100644 --- a/maxscale/reference/maxscale-filters/maxscale-workload-capture-and-replay.md +++ b/maxscale/reference/maxscale-filters/maxscale-workload-capture-and-replay.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # MaxScale Workload Capture and Replay -_The WCAR (Write Consistent Archive and Replay) module is a sophisticated feature designed to capture and archive client traffic passing through a MaxScale instance. This allows system administrators and developers to process and store vast volumes of data related to client-server interactions in a reliable manner. By harnessing this captured data, users gain the flexibility to replay and simulate the varied client activity typically seen in a production environment._ +_The WCAR (Workload Capture and Replay) module is a sophisticated feature designed to capture and archive client traffic passing through a MaxScale instance. This allows system administrators and developers to process and store vast volumes of data related to client-server interactions in a reliable manner. By harnessing this captured data, users gain the flexibility to replay and simulate the varied client activity typically seen in a production environment._ _One of the module's primary advantages is that it removes the necessity of creating explicit traffic generators, which can be resource-intensive and complex to maintain. Instead, the WCAR module provides a seamless method for mirroring realistic client interactions and behavior patterns, which can be critical for testing, debugging, and optimizing system performance._ @@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ WCAR is designed to capture traffic on a production MaxScale instance. The captu then be used as a reproducible way of generating client traffic without having to write\ application-specific traffic generators. -The captured workloads can be used:_to verify that upgrades of MariaDB behave as expected._ to repeatedly measure effects of configuration changes, which is useful for database tuning. - -* investigate why certain scenarios take longer then expected, as a kind of SQL debugging tool. +The captured workloads can be used to: +* Verify that upgrades of MariaDB behave as expected. +* Repeatedly measure effects of configuration changes, which is useful for database tuning. +* Investigate why certain scenarios take longer then expected, as a kind of SQL debugging tool. ### Prerequisites