Evolution of ClusterControl for MySQL & MongoDB
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...
How to Secure MongoDB From Ransomware – Ten Tips
Following the flurry of blogs, articles and social postings that have been published in recent weeks in response to the attacks on MongoDB systems and related ransomware, we thought we’d clear through the fog and...
Secure MongoDB and Protect Yourself From the Ransom Hack
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...
MongoDB Sharding Ins & Outs: Part Two
In previous posts of our “Become a MongoDB DBA” series, we covered Deployment, Configuration, Monitoring (part 1), Monitoring (part 2), backup, restore, read scaling and sharding (part 1). In the previous post we did a...
Deploying and Monitoring MySQL and MongoDB clusters in the cloud with NinesControl
NinesControl is a new service from Severalnines which helps you deploy MySQL, Galera, and MongoDB clusters in the cloud. In this blog post we will show you how you can easily deploy and monitor your...
Keeping the Tills Ringing at eCommerce Platform vidaXL
ClusterControl helps vidaXL compete with the world's largest e-commerce platforms by managing its MongoDB & MySQL databases. Press Release: everywhere around the world, November 9th 2016 - today we announced vidaXL, an international eCommerce platform where...
Custom Database Alerts by Combining Metrics with MongoDB
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,...
MongoDB: How to Scale Reads
In previous posts of our “Become a MongoDB DBA” series, we covered Deployment, Configuration, Monitoring (part 1), Monitoring (part 2), backup and restore. From this blog post onwards, we shift our focus to the scaling...
Database Sharding: How Does it Work?
Database systems with large data sets or high throughput applications can challenge the capacity of a single database server. High query rates can exhaust CPU capacity, I/O resources, RAM or even network bandwidth. Horizontal scaling...
New ClusterControl Subscriptions for Managing MySQL, MongoDB and PostgreSQL
We’ve got your databases covered: check out our new pricing plans for ClusterControl, the single console to deploy, monitor and manage your entire database infrastructure. Whether you’re looking to manage standalone instances, need high availability...
Recovering your MongoDB Data
In previous posts of our MongoDB DBA series, we have covered Deployment, Configuration, Monitoring (part 1), Monitoring (part 2) and backup. Now it is time to recover MongoDB using a backup we made in the...
A Guide to MongoDB Backups
In previous posts of our MongoDB DBA series, we have covered Deployment, Configuration, Monitoring (part 1) and Monitoring (part 2). The next step is ensuring your data gets backed up safely. Backups in MongoDB aren’t...