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ClusterControl Developer Studio: Creating an Advisor to check for SELinux and...
In part 1 of this blog, we showed you how to integrate a basic check with SELinux modes. In this part 2 blog, we’ll discuss and go over with Meltdown/Spectre integration to our Advisors, set an alarm,...
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Effective Monitoring of MySQL with SCUMM Dashboards Part 1
We added a number of new dashboards for MySQL in our latest release of ClusterControl 1.7.0. - and in our previous blog, we showed you How to Monitor Your ProxySQL with Prometheus and ClusterControl.In...
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How to Minimize RPO for Your PostgreSQL Databases Using Point in Time Recovery
In a disaster recovery plan, your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is a key recovery parameter that dictates how much data you can afford to lose. RPO is listed in time, from seconds to days....
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MySQL on Docker: Running ProxySQL as a Helper Container on Kubernetes
ProxySQL commonly sits between the application and database tiers, in so called reverse-proxy tier. When your application containers are orchestrated and managed by Kubernetes, you might want to use...
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Backup Management for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB with ClusterControl
What if …Traditional, labour-intensive backup and archive practices for your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases were a thing of the past?You could have one backup management solution for...
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Webinar: Backup Management for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL & MongoDB with...
Are you frustrated with traditional, labour-intensive backup and archive practices for your MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases?What if you could have one backup management solution for...
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Choosing a Database Proxy for MySQL and MariaDB
1. IntroductionThese days, high availability is an imperative. Data is distributed across multiple instances, or even multiple datacenters. Clusters can be scaled out on more nodes. Failures can cause...
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Effective Monitoring of MySQL Replication with SCUMM Dashboards - Part 2
In our previous blog on SCUMM dashboards, we looked at the MySQL overview dashboard. The new version of ClusterControl (ver. 1.7) offers a number of high resolution graphs of useful metrics, and we...
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Choosing a Database Proxy for MySQL & MariaDB - New Whitepaper
We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper Choosing a Database Proxy for MySQL and MariaDB is now available to download for free!Load balancing and high availability go hand-in-hand. Without them,...
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How to Cluster Your ProxySQL Load Balancers
A proxy layer between applications and databases would typically consist of multiple proxy nodes for high availability. This is no different for ProxySQL. ProxySQL, just like other modern proxies, can...
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MySQL on Docker: Running ProxySQL as Kubernetes Service
When running distributed database clusters, it is quite common to front them with load balancers. The advantages are clear - load balancing, connection failover and decoupling of the application tier...
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SQL Firewalling Made Easy with ClusterControl & ProxySQL
Reading the title of this blog post may raise some questions. SQL firewall - what is that? What does it do? Why would I need something like that in the first place? Well, the ability to block certain...
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How to Create a Single Endpoint for your PostgreSQL Replication setup using...
Managing traffic to the database can get harder and harder as it increases in amount and the database is actually distributed across multiple servers. PostgreSQL clients usually talk to a single...
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Simple Scheduling of Maintenance Windows across your Database Clusters
Maintenance is something that an operation team can not avoid. Servers have to keep up with the latest software, hardware and technology to ensure systems are stable and running with the lowest risk...
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Effective Monitoring of MySQL With SCUMM Dashboards - Part 3
We discussed in our previous blogs about the MySQL-related dashboards. We highlighted the things that a DBA can benefit from by studying the graphs, especially when performing their daily routines from...
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Migrating from MSSQL to PostgreSQL - What You Should Know
As you may know, Microsoft SQL Server is very popular RDBMS with highly restrictive licencing and high cost of ownership if the database is of significant size, or is used by a significant number of...
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Linking & Creating MongoDB Joins Using SQL - Part 1
SQL is the most preferred way of engaging relational databases as far as querying is concerned. It’s understood that users would have worked with relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL that...
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ClusterControl Tips & Tricks - Best Practices for Database Backups
Backups - one of the most important things to take care of while managing databases. It is said there are two types of people - those who backup their data and those who will backup their data. In this...
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How to Customize your MySQL & MariaDB Backups with ClusterControl
ClusterControl’s centralized backup management feature supports the standard mysqldump, Percona Xtrabackup backup and Mariabackup provided by MariaDB. We believe the chosen command line arguments for...
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Utilizing Encryption to Strengthen PostgreSQL Database Security
Organizations deal with different types of data including very crucial information that needs to be stored in a database. Security is a key aspect of consideration for ensuring sensitive data such as...
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