Author: Matthias Crauwels

Recently one of our colleagues was struggling with the default self-signed SSL certificate that ships with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). He needed an older version of PMM to run in a test environment for a particular project. He was…

Oracle MySQL Community Edition comes with a native, virtually synchronous, clustering solution called InnoDB Cluster. This clustering solution uses a technology under the hood called Group Replication. This technology is very similar to Galera Cluster, although where Galera relies on…

We were recently paged by a client because one node of their Orchestrator setup had crashed. The Orchestrator cluster was set up using the Orchestrator/raft consensus cluster and using a SQLite backend. When looking in the log files this is…

Here at Pythian we like to pay attention to what brings people to our site, and one of the main queries we’ve been seeing is “How can I allow a remote MySQL database connection?” Since our mission is to help…

PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a great community tool for monitoring your OSDB (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) fleet. It’s feature rich, and it’s built and distributed as open-source based on several de-facto industry standard tools such as Grafana and Prometheus….

So, I admit the title for this post is a bit ambiguous. Not only is it the second post I’ve written in a short period of time, but it’s also focused on ProxySQL 2.0. As promised in the previous post,…

MySQL Workbench is a popular tool for many developers working with a MySQL backend database. In a simple environment where you can connect directly to the database it works very intuitively, but in more complex environments it might be a…

While testing in an orchestrator lab I saw that none of my Orchestrator on-raft nodes were coming online after a reboot. This is the status report from SystemD. $ sudo systemctl status orchestrator * orchestrator.service – orchestrator: MySQL replication management…

Today is World Backup Day, reminding us of the importance of backups. Here at Pythian we LOVE YOUR DATA and as database consultants we are therefore very much focussed on making sure that our client’s data is always secure and…

On October 3rd ProxySQL will have it’s very first technology day. They have chosen the lovely city of Ghent, Belgium, my home town, as the place to be. For those attending Percona Live Europe in Amsterdam, this is a great…