How to Customize your MySQL & MariaDB Backups with ClusterControl
ClusterControl’s centralized backup management feature supports the standard mysqldump, Percona Xtrabackup backup and Mariabackup provided by MariaDB. We believe the chosen command line arguments for the respective methods are optimal for most database workloads, and...
Best Practices for Database Backups
Backups - one of the most important things to take care of while managing databases. It is said there are two types of people - those who backup their data and those who will backup...
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...