Tag: MySQL

If you have a New Relic Infrastructure Pro license, and unmonitored MySQL servers, there’s now an easy solution at your fingertips. With the New Relic MySQL integration you can monitor and graph almost any detailed metric you could possibly want….

After spending four years working with ProxySQL in production, I’ve learned a few interesting lessons about interpreting and processing query rules. I hope to save you some time (and avoid wrong turns) with this summary of ProxySQL query rules. ProxySQL…

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….

Welcome to the July 2020 episode of the Datascape Cloud Update Podcast. This is the podcast where we distill the latest Cloud announcements from the leading public Cloud vendors and help to inform you about what matters and what to…

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…

Recently, we were affected by an ignored configuration option introduced in MySQL 5.6. This incident caused us to perform extended planning of downtime and the rebuilding of the slave. In this post, we’ll discuss our encounter with binlog_error_action and likely…

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…

When you have multiple database servers working together as nodes in a cluster, it’s beneficial to understand how data consistency is established. In this post, we’re going to take a look at the various cluster consistency levels that you can…