Monitoring Galera Cluster – Understanding and Optimizing CPU-Related InnoDB Metrics
The performance of a Galera cluster is strongly connected to the performance of MySQL. Galera only supports the InnoDB storage engine, it is therefore important to have an insight into how InnoDB operates – what metrics...
Chef Cookbooks for ClusterControl – Management and Monitoring for Your Database Clusters
If you are automating your infrastructure deployments with Chef, then read on. We are glad to announce the availability of a Chef cookbook for ClusterControl. This cookbook replaces previous cookbooks we released for ClusterControl and...
MongoDB Tutorial – On-Premises Cluster Management and Monitoring of MongoDB Replica Sets
Replica Sets in MongoDB are very useful. They provide multiple copies of data, automated failover and read scalability. A Replica Set can consist of up to 12 nodes, with only one primary node (or...
Nagios Plugin for ClusterControl
Nagios is a very popular open source IT infrastructure monitoring tool, used by sysadmins to watch out for problems in their systems. If you use Nagios and would like to utilize it to monitor your...
MongoDB Sharding – On-Premises Deployment and Monitoring of MongoDB Sharded Clusters
Last year, we did a survey asking our users about any other databases they were using alongside MySQL. A clear majority were interested in using other databases alongside MySQL, these included (in order of popularity)...