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April 9, 2020

MyDBA is Sick – Database Monitoring Tips for SysAdmins

Database monitoring is a key function for Database Administrators (DBA). With a proper monitoring platform, you can know immediately if there is something wrong with the system.  Should your DBA be unavailable and you may...

December 13, 2019

Building a Monitoring Pipeline for InfluxDB with Sensu & Grafana

Metrics are at the heart of any good monitoring strategy — including how to collect them, where to send them, and how you visualize that data. In this post, I’ll walk you through building your...

June 25, 2019

A Guide to the MariaDB Columnstore for MySQL Admins

The typical MySQL DBA might be familiar working and managing an OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) database as part of their daily routine. You may be familiar with how it works and how to manage complex...

March 1, 2019

A Review of the New Analytic Window Functions in MySQL 8.0

Data is captured and stored for a variety of reasons. Hours beyond count (and even more budget) invested in collecting, ingesting, structuring, validating, and ultimately storing of data; to say that it is a valuable...

February 20, 2019

Hybrid OLTP/Analytics Database Workloads: Replicating MySQL Data to ClickHouse

How to run Analytics on MySQL? MySQL is a great database for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads. For some companies, it used to be more than enough for a long time. Times have changed and...

January 18, 2019

Analytics with MariaDB AX – tThe Open Source Columnar Datastore

Long gone are the days of the one-database-fits-all approach. With increasing requirements on velocity, performance and agility, numerous datastores emerged, which are intended to solve one particular problem. We have relational databases, document stores, time-series...

September 10, 2018

How to Automate Database Workload Analysis With ClusterControl Performance Advisors

ClusterControl Community Edition gives us the opportunity to install database clusters and get a real-time representation of database status and queries for free. A big chunk of ops management consists of tracking your monitoring systems....

March 14, 2018

Key Things to Monitor in PostgreSQL – Analyzing Your Workload

Key Things to Monitor in PostgreSQL - Analyzing Your Workload In computer systems, monitoring is the process of gathering metrics, analyzing, computing statistics and generating summaries and graphs regarding the performance or the capacity of...

November 9, 2015

Understanding the MySQL Galera Cluster and MariaDB Cluster Diagnostic Logs

In a previous post, we discussed the error log as a source of diagnostic information for MySQL. We’ve shown examples of problems where the error log can help you diagnose issues with MySQL. This post...

March 17, 2015

Monitoring Host Metrics of Your Database Instances – How to Interpret Operating System Data

Monitoring the metrics of the database hosts is critical. By keeping Swap and Physical Memory usage within allowable limits, you’ll ensure that there is enough memory for queries to be executed and connections to be...

June 16, 2014

Big Data Integration & ETL – Moving Live Clickstream Data from MongoDB to Hadoop for Analytics

  MongoDB is great at storing clickstream data, but using it to analyze millions of documents can be challenging. Hadoop provides a way of processing and analyzing data at large scale. Since it is a...

May 16, 2014

Archival and Analytics – Importing MySQL Data Into a Hadoop Cluster Using Sqoop

  We won’t bore you with buzzwords like volume, velocity and variety. This post is for MySQL users who want to get their hands dirty with Hadoop, so roll up your sleeves and prepare for...

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