How to Decode the PostgreSQL Error Logs
PostgreSQL error reporting follows a style guide aimed at providing the database administrator with the information required to efficiently troubleshoot issues. Error messages normally contain a short description, followed by some detailed information, and a...
Free Open Source Database Deployment & Monitoring with ClusterControl Community Edition
The ClusterControl Community Edition is a free-to-use, all-in-one database management system that allows you to easily deploy and monitor the top open source database technologies like MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Galera Cluster and more....
New ClusterControl Template for Zabbix
We’ve had Zabbix templates for ClusterControl available for three years now, so that Zabbix is able to connect to ClusterControl and retrieve monitoring data as well as alerts. We recently rewrote major parts of the...
Monitoring Galera Cluster for MySQL or MariaDB – Understanding Metrics (Updated)
To operate any database efficiently, you need to have insight into database performance. This might not be obvious when everything is going well, but as soon as something goes wrong, access to information can be...
Video: ChatOps, Monitoring, & Orchestration Integrations for ClusterControl
We were very excited to release a new wave of ChatOps and Notification System integrations in the last version of ClusterControl. But these systems are not the only ones that you can integrate with ClusterControl....
DevOps Database Glossary for the MySQL Novice
When you need to work with a database that you are not 100% familiar with, you can be overwhelmed by the hundreds of metrics available. Which ones are the most important? What should I monitor,...
The DevOps Guide to Database Management
We’re happy to announce that our new DevOps Guide to Database Management is now available to download for free! This guide discusses the challenges that DevOps teams face when they are required to deploy, manage...
Video: ClusterControl ChatOps Integrations
The video below details the new ChatOps Integrations available in the latest version of ClusterControl. Included in the video are… Overview of ClusterControl Integrations Installing new integrations Configuring which clusters to monitor Selecting what items...
Introducing the ClusterControl Alerting Integrations
The time to respond to outages is one of the most important metrics to measure, when you have a 24/7 business to run. Incident response applications, like VictorOps and PagerDuty, will report back their effectiveness...
Database Automation: Integrating the ClusterControl CLI With Your ChatBot
Last year we launched a ClusterControl integration with chatrooms. We made a Hubot based chatbot, called CCBot, to make your database tier accessible from your company wide chat! The chatbot integrates our CMON backend API...
Monitoring & Securing MongoDB with ClusterControl Advisors
Database ops management consists of 80% reading and interpreting your monitoring systems. Hundreds of metrics can be interpreted and combined in various ways to give you deep insights into your database systems and how to...
How to use the ClusterControl Query Monitor for MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server
The MySQL database workload is determined by the number of queries that it processes. There are several situations in which MySQL slowness can originate. The first possibility is if there is any queries that are...