7 Best Practices for SQL Server Security
According to the 2021 Thales Data Threat Report, 45% of US companies experienced a data breach in 2020. That is a scary statistic, and the truth is the actual number could be even higher as...
Your DBA is Absent: What Do You Do?
If you are running a company, chances are that you already have a lot of things to take care of - you need to hire developers, designers, perhaps a couple of security experts, as well...
What Monitoring Tool Do You Use To Keep An Eye On Your Database Clusters?
Choosing a monitoring tool that helps you keep an eye out on your database clusters might not be a very easy task. At least not until you know what you need out of it and...
What Do You Use To Monitor Query Performance?
If you have found yourself in the shoes of a database administrator or a database-savvy developer or a system administrator, you have most likely already heard about queries. Heck, it’s impossible not to, right? Queries...
Proactive Galera Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors angle)
Monitoring is one of the vital parts for many organizations. In fact, there is a role specifically for monitoring purposes. This proves that with proactive monitoring, a lot of things could be achieved including driving...
ClusterControl Schema Advisors: Why, When, How?
If you’re a database administrator, your database schema is probably one of the primary things you keep a watchful eye on. However, database schema design consists of many different things, and as a database administrator...
Proactive MySQL Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors Angle)
Monitoring your MySQL database proactively is imperative nowadays. It plays a crucial and significant part for managing and controlling your database especially for your production-grade clusters. Missing specific information that would be beneficial for improving...
Proactive PostgreSQL Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors angle)
Monitoring is a way to know if your systems are working properly. Even when using a robust technology like PostgreSQL, it is important to have a good monitoring system that allows you to prevent issues...
Proactive MongoDB Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors angle)
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...
Performance Monitoring of Redis
Just like any database activity, monitoring is a constant practice to make sure an optimal performance of databases is always assured and guaranteed to the limit that it is expected to provide. Redis is not...
ClusterControl Alert Integration Using Webhooks
There is no doubt that monitoring and alerting is one of critical aspects for any application, especially for a mission-critical environment. From those alerts and notifications, one should be able to act or respond in...
How to Configure AppArmor for MongoDB Replica Sets?
There are many sections and layers of security if we are talking about the hardening of databases. It starts from the encryption of the underlying storage disk, database access privileges, authentication, network access control, data...