This is Part I of a multi-part Several9s blog series on how to use Severalnines' ClusterControl REST API client SDK to programmatically control ClusterControl in order to accomplish many facets of database life cycle management...

When you install ClusterControl, it has a default configuration that maybe doesn’t fit your requirements so probably you will need to customize this installation. For this, you can modify the configuration files, but you can...

Managing multiple open source database technologies in any environment can be a daunting task, especially if you have fewer resources. The scenario could be worse if deployment, monitoring, and other database management tasks are done manually....

This blog post is a continuation of the previous part 1, where we have covered the basics of SNMP integration with ClusterControl. In this blog post, we are going to focus on SNMP traps and...

ClusterControl comes with a number of distinctive alerts (or alarms) which you won't find in other monitoring systems. ClusterControl understands a database cluster topology as a whole - all database nodes and the relation between...

One of the biggest concerns when managing a database is the size and complexity of its data. As the size of the database increases, you need to have a plan in place for how to...

After upgrading to ClusterControl 1.8.2, you should get the following notification banner: What's up with that? It is a depreciation notice of the current user management system in favor of the new user management system...

Many system administrators commonly overlook the importance of ongoing database configuration tuning. Configuration options are often being configured or tuned once, during the installation stage, and being left out until some unwanted events occur to...

Database automation helps make complex and time consuming tasks simple and fast. The tasks most commonly and easily identified for automation are those that are time-consuming yet repetitive. These often consume productivity, and can affect...

Technology consumers and users have embraced cloud computing ever since its boom.  It implicates a very beneficial part nowadays to the technology on how humans use and interact with technology, especially the advent of IoT...

MySQL user and privilege management is very critical for authentication, authorization and accounting purposes. Since MySQL 8.0, there are now two types of database user privileges: Static privileges - The common global, schema and administrative...

MySQL configuration management consists of two major components - MySQL configuration files and runtime configuration. Applying configuration changes on the runtime environment can be done through MySQL server clients with no privilege for session variables...