ClusterControl has many metrics related to the database, replication, and also operating system. You can also monitor the process that runs inside the database through the opscounter in the Overview. If you enable Agent Based...

In any database setup, performance is always a challenge and is most of the time database administrators and developers always deals with especially for a production and large environment. It's worth noting that a simple...

Starting with ClusterControl 1.8.2, we have introduced new user management, permissions as well as access controls. From this version onwards, all of the features we mentioned earlier will be controlled by a set of Access...

Redis is an open-source in-memory datastore used as a database or cache. It has built-in replication and provides high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. In this blog, we will see...

Redis is a well-known in-memory datastore, quite commonly used for caching the data from a website or the database. You may think in such use cases backups of the data is not really relevant, but...

The Importance of Failover Failover is one of the most important database practices for database governance. It’s useful not only when managing large databases in production, but also if you want to be sure that...

This blog post is a continuation of the previous part 1, where we have covered the basics of SNMP integration with ClusterControl. In this blog post, we are going to focus on SNMP traps and...

ClusterControl comes with a number of distinctive alerts (or alarms) which you won't find in other monitoring systems. ClusterControl understands a database cluster topology as a whole - all database nodes and the relation between...

After upgrading to ClusterControl 1.8.2, you should get the following notification banner: What's up with that? It is a depreciation notice of the current user management system in favor of the new user management system...

Monitoring your database schema changes in MySQL/MariaDB provides a huge help as it saves time analyzing your database growth, table definition changes, data size, index size, or row size. For MySQL/MariaDB, running a query referencing...

Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and being left out until some unwanted events occur to...

Auditing is a requirement for many security regulations or standards, like PCI - Payment Card Industry, and even a good way to keep your data as safe as possible knowing what is happening in your...