ClusterControl CLI Secrets – Things You Can Do That Are Not in the GUI
Everybody has a secret, and ClusterControl is not the exception… ClusterControl has a powerful, easy-to-use, and friendly UI, but using this UI is not the only way to manage your clusters. ClusterControl has a CLI...
Best Practices for Enabling Database Alarms & Notifications
Database Alarms and Notifications are one of the best ways to notify us of what's going on with our monitored database servers. This does not limit alone to the database systems but the whole picture...
Tips for Storing Your MariaDB Backups in the Cloud
Having a good Disaster Recovery Plan is a must in all companies to prevent data loss or reduce downtime in case of failure. For this, backups are a basic point here, and it is essential...
Managing Your ClusterControl Users Privileges and Access
ClusterControl is a management platform for open source databases. It is a feature-rich product which allows users to perform multiple management tasks, including ones that may result in a data loss (rebuilding nodes, restoring backups...
Tips for Performing Database Maintenance with ClusterControl
Database Maintenance is a set of tasks that requires work on your database or set of database servers that involves improvement for its security, performance, optimization, upgrades, or even test such as benchmarking after changes...
How to Monitor Your Databases with ClusterControl and VictorOps
ClusterControl is used for monitoring and managing open source databases, and it does not live on its own island. There are options to integrate with external tools and extend what you can achieve using those...
How to Verify Your MySQL Backups with ClusterControl
Backups are a basic point in all Disaster Recovery Plans, but only having a backup is not enough to guarantee correct data recovery. You must need to make sure that the backup is usable, and...
What is a Query Outlier and How to Fix It
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 are any queries that are...
Performance Testing Using MySQLdump and the MySQL Shell Utility
In my previous post I explained how to take a logical backup using the mysql shell utilities. In this post, we shall compare the speed of the backup and restoration process. MySQL Shell Speed Test ...
How to Monitor Your Databases with ClusterControl and Opsgenie
ClusterControl is a platform for monitoring and managing open source databases. It will provide you with a single pane of glass to understand what is happening in the system, it will let you know via...
How to Deploy MariaDB Cluster 10.5 for High Availability
MariaDB Cluster 10.5 deployment has been supported in ClusterControl since version 1.8.1. MariaDB 10.5 is equipped with: More Granular Privileges InnoDB Performance Improvements Full GTID Support for Galera Cluster More Metadata for Replication and...
MongoDB Backup Management Tips for Sharded Clusters
Making proper backups of the database is a critical task. Besides setting the high availability architecture of your MongoDB for database services, you also need to have backups of your databases to ensure the availability...