Manage and Monitor Your Existing MySQL NDB Cluster
Of the different types of clustered MySQL environments, NDB Cluster is among the ones that involves most effort and resources to administer. And unless you are a command line guru, you would want to use...
How to Deploy a MySQL NDB Cluster Using ClusterControl
MySQL NDB Cluster is one of the best solutions to implement shared-nothing databases, which are durable and scale well. NDB cluster consists of several elements: there are management servers, data nodes and SQL nodes. Each...
A New Way to Personalize Your PostgreSQL Monitoring with Prometheus
Monitoring is one of the fundamental tasks in any system. It can help us to detect problems and take action, or simply to know the current state of our systems. Using visual displays can make...
State-of-the-Art Database Management: ClusterControl – The Guide
Today we’re happy to announce the availability of our first white paper on ClusterControl, the only management system you’ll ever need to automate and manage your open source database infrastructure! Download ClusterControl - The Guide!...
Introducing Agent-Based Database Monitoring with ClusterControl 1.7
We are excited to announce the 1.7 release of ClusterControl - the only management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure! ClusterControl 1.7 introduces new exciting agent-based monitoring features...
Webinar Replay: Monitoring on Steroids for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB
Thanks for joining us this week for our webinar on monitoring MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and MongoDB with freely available community tools and more specifically one: ClusterControl Community Edition. The replay and slides are now available...
Write Your First Advisor
Did you ever wonder what triggers the advice in ClusterControl that your disk is filling up? Or the advice to create primary keys on InnoDB tables if they don’t exist? These advisors are mini scripts...
Operational Reports for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB
The majority of DBA’s perform health checks on their databases every now and then. Usually, it would happen on a daily or weekly basis. We previously discussed why such checks are important and what they...
How to Monitor Multiple MySQL Instances Running on the Same Machine – ClusterControl Tips & Tricks
Requires ClusterControl 1.6 or later. Applies to MySQL based instances/clusters. On some occasions, you might want to run multiple instances of MySQL on a single machine. You might want to give different users access to...
Custom Graphs to Monitor Your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL Systems – ClusterControl Tips & Tricks
Graphs are important, as they are your window onto your monitored systems. ClusterControl comes with a predefined set of graphs for you to analyze, these are built on top of the metric sampling done by...
ClusterControl Performance and Health Monitoring
In the previous two blog posts we covered both deploying the four types of clustering/replication (MySQL/Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL) and managing/monitoring your existing databases and clusters. So, after reading these two first blog...
How to Deploy PostgreSQL for High Availability
Introduction Nowadays, high availability is a requirement for many systems, no matter what technology you’re using. This is especially important for databases, as they store data that critical applications and systems rely on. The most...