Effective Monitoring of MySQL With SCUMM Dashboards: Part 3
We discussed in our previous blogs about the MySQL-related dashboards. We highlighted the things that a DBA can benefit from by studying the graphs, especially when performing their daily routines from diagnostics, metric reporting, and...
How to Create a Single Endpoint for Your PostgreSQL Replication Setup using HAProxy
Managing traffic to the database can get harder and harder as it increases in amount and the database is actually distributed across multiple servers. PostgreSQL clients usually talk to a single endpoint. When a primary...
SQL Firewalling Made Easy with ClusterControl & ProxySQL
Reading the title of this blog post may raise some questions. SQL firewall - what is that? What does it do? Why would I need something like that in the first place? Well, the ability...
How to Cluster Your ProxySQL Load Balancers
A proxy layer between applications and databases would typically consist of multiple proxy nodes for high availability. This is no different for ProxySQL. ProxySQL, just like other modern proxies, can be used to build complex...
Choosing a Database Proxy for MySQL & MariaDB
We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper Choosing a Database Proxy for MySQL and MariaDB is now available to download for free! Load balancing and high availability go hand-in-hand. Without them, you are left...
Effective Monitoring of MySQL Replication With SCUMM Dashboards: Part 2
In our previous blog on SCUMM dashboards, we looked at the MySQL overview dashboard. The new version of ClusterControl (ver. 1.7) offers a number of high resolution graphs of useful metrics, and we went through...
How to Minimize RPO for Your PostgreSQL Databases Using Point in Time Recovery
In a disaster recovery plan, your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is a key recovery parameter that dictates how much data you can afford to lose. RPO is listed in time, from seconds to days. Effectively,...
Effective Monitoring of MySQL With SCUMM Dashboards: Part One
We added a number of new dashboards for MySQL in our latest release of ClusterControl 1.7.0. - and in our previous blog, we showed you How to Monitor Your ProxySQL with Prometheus and ClusterControl. In...
Creating an Advisor to Check for SELinux and Meltdown/Spectre: Part Two
In part 1 of this blog, we showed you how to integrate a basic check with SELinux modes. In this part 2 blog, we’ll discuss and go over with Meltdown/Spectre integration to our Advisors, set...
Using ClusterControl Advisor to Create Checks for SELinux and Meltdown/Spectre: Part One
We previously showed you how to create your first database advisor in ClusterControl. Now let’s see how we can create a security advisor to check for SELinux and Meltdown/Spectre. We will be using the ClusterControl...
How to Monitor Your ProxySQL with Prometheus and ClusterControl
ClusterControl 1.7.0 introduces a bold new feature - integration with Prometheus for agent-based monitoring. We called this SCUMM (Severalnines ClusterControl Unified Management and Monitoring). In the previous versions, the monitoring tasks were solely performed agentlessly....
How to Monitor MySQL or MariaDB Galera Cluster with Prometheus Using SCUMM
ClusterControl version 1.7 introduced a new way to watch your database clusters. The new agent-based approach was designed for demanding high-resolution monitoring. ClusterControl agentless, secure SSH-based remote stats collection has been extended with modern high-frequency...