Zero Downtime Upgrades Made Easy with ClusterControl
“Keep your database upgraded to the latest version - it’s for your safety” is something you may frequently hear as sound advice and best practice when it comes to database management. On the other...
View ArticleHow to use Cluster-to-Cluster Replication in a Galera Cluster
Previously, we announced a new ClusterControl 1.7.4 feature called Cluster-to-Cluster Replication. It automates the entire process of setting up a disaster recovery cluster off your primary cluster,...
View ArticleProactive Galera Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors angle)
Monitoring is one of the vital parts for many organizations. In fact, there is a role specifically for monitoring purposes. This proves that with proactive monitoring, a lot of things could be achieved...
View ArticleClusterControl: Intro to the New Query Monitor
ClusterControl 1.9.0 was released on July 16th 2021 with a lot of new features introduced to the system. Those features include Redis Management and Monitoring, a new agent-based Query Monitoring...
View ArticleWebinar Replay: Top Five Tips to Drive MariaDB Galera Cluster Performance for...
Are you a MariaDB database administrator that is facing problems regarding your Galera Cluster implementations? Perhaps you even tried to make it work in harmony with Nextcloud? If you have answered...
View ArticleProactive MySQL Monitoring (Developer Studio/Advisors Angle)
Monitoring your MySQL database proactively is imperative nowadays. It plays a crucial and significant part for managing and controlling your database especially for your production-grade clusters....
View ArticleClusterControl - Advanced Backup Management - mariabackup Part II
In the previous part we have tested backup time and effectiveness of the compression for different backup compression levels and methods. In this blog we will continue our efforts and we will talk...
View ArticleClusterControl runtime configuration options
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...
View ArticleClusterControl - Advanced Backup Management - mariabackup Part I
ClusterControl can, among others, act as a great tool to help you design and execute the backup schedule. Numerous features are available including backup verification, transparent backup encryption...
View ArticleUsing Sysbench to Generate Test Data for Sharded Table in MySQL
Sysbench is a great tool to generate test data and perform MySQL OLTP benchmarks. Commonly, one would do a prepare-run-cleanup cycle when performing benchmark using Sysbench. By default, the table...
View ArticleHow to configure SELinux for MySQL-based systems (MySQL/MariaDB Replication +...
In the era that we are living in now, anything with a less secure environment is easily a target for an attack and becomes a bounty for the attackers. Compared to the past 20 years, hackers nowadays...
View ArticleManaging Multiple Database Technologies with ClusterControl
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...
View ArticleSix Critical Components of Successful Data Governance
What is Data Governance?For large organizations or companies that are into data management, data governance possesses the key to success in managing, controlling, or governing the data that has been...
View ArticleIntegrating ClusterControl with SNMP : Part Two
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 alerting....
View ArticleIntegrating ClusterControl with SNMP - A Proof of Concept : Part One
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...
View ArticleBest Practices in Scaling Databases: Part Two
In the previous blog post, we have covered the basics of scaling - what it is, what are the types, what is a must-have if we want to scale. This blog post will focus on the challenges and the ways in...
View ArticleLive Webinar: Tips to Drive MariaDB Galera Cluster Performance for Nextcloud
Join us for this webinar on Tips to Drive MariaDB Galera Cluster Performance for Nextcloud. The webinar features Björn Schiessle, Co-Founder and Pre-sales lead at Nextcloud, and Ashraf Sharif, senior...
View ArticleHow to Manage Large Databases Effectively
One of the biggest concerns when dealing with and managing databases is its data and size complexity. Often, organizations get concerned about how to deal with growth and manage growth impact because...
View ArticleBest Practices in Scaling Databases: Part 1
All of you have heard about scaling - your architecture should be scalable, you should be able to scale up to meet the demand, so on and so forth. What does it mean when we talk about databases? How...
View ArticleNew User and LDAP Management in ClusterControl 1.8.2
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...
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