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# 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._

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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

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