Data protection is one of the most significant aspects of administering a database. Depending on the organizational structure, whether you are a developer, sysadmin or DBA, if you are managing the production database, you must...

How would you like to merge "top" process for all your 5 database nodes and sort by CPU usage with just a one-liner command? Yeah, you read it right! How about interactive graphs display in...

Operational Reporting provides support to the day-to-day enterprise activity monitoring and control. The purpose of this blog article is to get you more familiar with the operational reports available in ClusterControl. ClusterControl operational reports arm...

Data observability is a critical piece of the database operations puzzle – Data allows you visibility into the state and health of your critical systems. Ideally, this data should be available in one single location....

Dealing with MySQL replication? Chances are that you chose that setup to achieve high availability. After all, it is the most popular HA solution for MySQL. But guess what absolutely does not qualify as ‘being...

Failover might sound like a buzzword for anyone within the IT industry, but what’s behind it? What is a failover? What can I use it for? Is it important to have it? How can I...

In a previous post, we discussed how you can take control of the failover process in ClusterControl by utilizing whitelists and blacklists. In this post, we are going to discuss a similar concept. But this...

We are excited to announce the 1.6.2 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily automate and manage highly available open source databases in any environment: on-premise or in the...

Automated failover is pretty much a must have for many applications - uptime is taken for granted. It’s quite hard to accept that an application is down for 20 or 30 minutes because someone has...

Before you attempt to perform any schema changes on your production databases, you should make sure that you have a rock solid rollback plan; and that your change procedure has been successfully tested and validated...

Introduction When running Galera Cluster, it is a common practice to add one or more asynchronous slaves in the same or in a different datacenter. This provides us with a contingency plan with low RTO,...

We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper Disaster Recovery Planning for MySQL & MariaDB is now available to download for free! Database outages are almost inevitable and understanding the timeline of an outage can...