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Motivation

Users need a practical way to choose a cluster size before they know the hydration memory requirements of their workload. The improved hydration visibility project provides historical replica and object-level observations that make a large-first sizing workflow possible.

Project context: https://app.notion.com/p/materialize/Improved-hydration-visibility-3a513f48d37b806cb3a5e7f5b5a9c1e6

Description

  • Expand the cluster sizing guidance with a staged, full-workload hydration workflow that starts at a large size and iteratively sizes down.
  • Show how to monitor replica lifecycle events and query replica and object hydration history.
  • Explain history scope, object-count semantics, sizing headroom, and autoscaling considerations.
  • Clarify restart durability in the system catalog reference and link the history relations to the sizing workflow.

User impact

Users can use persisted hydration history to select a cluster size with sufficient memory and hydration headroom, reducing repeated failures caused by starting with an undersized cluster.

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The documented SQL was validated against Materialize Emulator v26.41.0-dev. Both HTML and agent-readable Markdown documentation rendered successfully, and the system catalog reference checks passed.

Document a large-first sizing workflow using replica and object hydration history, and connect the workflow to the system catalog reference.
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Closing in favor of #38726

@maheshwarip maheshwarip closed this Sep 9, 2026
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