A proxy layer is an important building block for any highly available database environment. HAProxy has been available for a long time, as a generic TCP load balancer. We later added support for MaxScale, an...

Our latest release of ClusterControl turns some of the most troublesome MongoDB tasks into a mere 15 second job. New features have been added to give you more control over your cluster and perform topology...

ClusterControl reduces complexity of managing your database infrastructure on premise or in the cloud, while adding support for new technologies; enabling you to truly automate mixed environments for next-level applications. Since the launch of ClusterControl...

With the recent release of ClusterControl 1.4.0, we added a bunch of new features to better support MySQL replication users. In this blog post, we’ll give you a quick overview of the new features. Enhanced...

Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases in any environment; on-premise...

The MySQL database workload is determined by the number of queries that it processes. There are several situations in which MySQL slowness can originate. The first possibility is if there is any queries that are...

In this blogpost we look at the recent concerns around MongoDB ransomware and security issues, and how to mitigate this threat to your own MongoDB instance. Recently, various security blogs raised concern that a hacker...

Having too large a (write) workload on a master is dangerous. If the master collapses and a failover happens to one of its slave nodes, the slave node could collapse under the write pressure as...

  This week we’re happy to announce that our new DevOps Guide to Database Backups for MySQL & MariaDB is now available for download (free)! This guide discusses in detail the two most popular backup...

As sysadmins and DBAs, we need to be notified whenever something critical happens to our database.  But would it not be nicer if we were informed upfront, and still have time to perform pre-emptive maintenance...

In the previous blog posts, we gave a brief introduction to the ClusterControl Developer Studio and the ClusterControl Domain Specific Language. We covered some useful examples, e.g., how to extract information from the Performance Schema,...

In a previous blog, we looked at the efficiency gains when automating the deployment of a Galera cluster for MySQL. In this post, we are going to dive into cluster management. Should we manage our...