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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Introduction MongoDB has great support for high availability through ReplicaSets. However, deploying a ReplicaSet is not enough for a production-ready system. The latter requires a bit of planning. Deployment is just the initial step, we...

Any type of database faces performance issues when data grows. Simple steps like rewriting problematic queries or analyzing/optimizing the database schema can drastically improve the performance of the database. MongoDB provides some excellent features which...

MongoDB often involves working with a large set of data including embedded arrays and array objects. Therefore, it is always important to ensure your database processing rate is as fast as possible to enhance read...

With the growing complexity of database setups, many SysAdmins and DBAs are turning to an agentless approach to help ease the burden of database monitoring challenges. ClusterControl's agentless monitoring allows you to monitor databases without...

We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper MongoDB Aggregation Framework Stages and Pipelinings is now available to download for free! In this whitepaper, we deep-dive into MongoDB’s Aggregation Framework and look into the different...

Database backup is nothing but a way to protect or restore data. It is the process of storing the operational state, architecture, and data of your database. It can be very useful in situations of...

MongoDB Zones To understand MongoDB Zones, we must first understand what a Zone is: a group of shards based on a specific set of tags. MongoDB Zones help in the distribution of chunks based on...