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...
How to Deploy Percona XtraDB Cluster 8 for High Availability
Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0 is based on Percona Server for MySQL 8.0 embedded with Galera writeset replication API and Galera replication library, to form a highly available multi-master replication for MySQL-based database server. Percona XtraDB...
An Overview of ProxySQL Clustering in ClusterControl
ProxySQL is a well known load balancer in MySQL world - it comes with a great set of features that allow you to take control over your traffic and shape it however you see it...
Announcing ClusterControl 1.8.1: Improved Security, Backup for MongoDB Sharded Clusters & Galera 4 Support
We’re excited to announce the 1.8.1 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. In addition to several new security enhancements, ClusterControl...