Using Galera cluster is a great way of building a highly available environment for MySQL or MariaDB. It is a shared-nothing cluster environment which can be scaled even beyond 12-15 nodes. Galera has some limitations,...

Since its inception, there have been an increasing number of migrations to a cloud-based environment. After all, cloud computing can provide many benefits for businesses, especially those working with big data. However, as the demand...

How to Monitor MySQL Databases? Operational visibility is a must in any production environment. It is crucial to be able to identify any issues as soon as possible, otherwise you may end up in serious...

ClusterControl consists of multiple components and one of them is the user interface, a web application running on PHP platform. Some customers had concerns since PHP 5.x was deprecated early this year. This blog post...

With the 1.7 release of our flagship product ClusterControl, we introduced our new agent-based monitoring infrastructure: SCUMM - which this blog discusses in more detail. As a core element of our product, ClusterControl provides a...

ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduces a new feature called Create Cluster from Backup, which allows you to deploy a new MySQL or Postgres-based cluster and restore data on it from a backup. This blog post shows how...

Did you know that apart from the ClusterControl web UI, you can also use a command line interface to manage your PostgreSQL instances? ClusterControl supports PostgreSQL streaming replication (both asynchronous and synchronous replication) as well...

Thanks to everyone who joined our first webinar of 2019! Our colleague Sebastian Insausti walked us through all the ins and outs of how to automate and manage PostgreSQL with ClusterControl! You can now watch...

While MongoDB has spent nearly a decade achieving maturity (initial release Feb 2009), the technology is a bit of a mystery to those experienced in conventional relational database (RDBMS) environments. Integrating NoSQL into an existing...

ClusterControl 1.7.1 introduced a new feature which allows you to backup your ClusterControl server and restore it (together with metadata about your managed databases) onto another server. It backs up the ClusterControl application as well...

Monitoring and management are critical to any production environment because performance matters. Slow user interfaces that lag or do not respond, delayed alerts, and cluster job timeouts when the server is starved of resources are...

Load balancers are an essential component of any highly available database setup. They’re used to increase the capacity and reliability of your critical systems and applications by preventing any one server from becoming overloaded. We...