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...
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...