Useful commands

Show status  
 show table status; 
 Purging MySQL Binlog files 
   
 To show binary logs 
 mysql> SHOW BINARY LOGS; 
 To Purge binary logs manually until some point 
 mysql> PURGE BINARY LOGS TO 'binlog.000776'; 
 To show binary logs 
 mysql> SET GLOBAL binlog_expire_logs_seconds = 259200;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> SET PERSIST binlog_expire_logs_seconds = 259200;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) 
   
 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1322041/how-to-solve-increasing-size-of-mysql-binlog-files-problem 
 https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/replication-options-binary-log.html