Global Multi-Primary MySQL Cluster Monitoring Using Nagios and NRPE
A robust monitoring setup is essential for cluster health and viability - if your replicator goes offline and you do not know about it, then that Replica becomes effectively useless because it has stale data. This means keeping a close watch on the health of the MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server database nodes from many perspectives, from ensuring sufficient disk space to testing that replication traffic is flowing.
Mastering Tungsten Replicator Series: Tasty THL Tips - unsafe_for_block_commit
The Tungsten Replicator is an extraordinarily powerful and flexible tool capable of moving vast volumes of data from source to target.
In this blog post we will discuss one specific aspect of the THL (Transaction History Log) - the METADATA unsafe_for_block_commit flag.
MySQL / MariaDB Clustering: Seamless Master Switch with Tungsten Clustering
One nice thing about Tungsten Clustering is that you need just a single command to move the master role to another host in your cluster.
MySQL / MariaDB Clustering with Tungsten: Failover Focus
In this blog post, we discuss failover concepts and administration.
Mastering Tungsten Replicator Series: Migration from an Old Database to a New Cluster
The Tungsten Replicator is an extraordinarily powerful and flexible tool capable of moving vast volumes of data from source to target.
Mastering Tungsten Replicator Series: Filtering the Data Fantastic
The Tungsten Replicator is an extraordinarily powerful and flexible tool capable of moving vast volumes of data from source to target.
In this blog post we will discuss the basics of how to implement and use filters in the Tungsten Replicator.
How To Monitor Your Database Clusters Using Tungsten Dashboard
Managing a single cluster takes time and attention, and handling multiple clusters spread out over many sites is even more demanding. Tungsten Clustering offers a graphical administration tool called the Tungsten Dashboard™ to help with your management burden. You are able to view, monitor and maintain all of your clusters all in one place.
Mastering Tungsten Replicator Series: Understanding Pipelines and Stages
The Tungsten Replicator is an extraordinarily powerful and flexible tool capable of moving vast volumes of data from source to target.
In this blog post we will discuss the internals of the Tungsten Replicator from the perspective of data flow processing.
A pipeline (or service) acts upon data.
Pipelines consist of a variable number of stages.
Zero-Downtime Upgrades for MySQL / MariaDB / Percona Server
Achieving software upgrades without downtime is a challenge that few software products can handle, or even try to. Tungsten Clustering is one that can!
Mastering Tungsten Replicator Series: Cluster-Aware Pipelines for Big Data, Reporting and Backups
The Tungsten Replicator is an extraordinarily powerful and flexible tool capable of moving vast volumes of data from source databases to various targets like Vertica, Kafka, Redshift and so on.
Mastering Tungsten Replicator Series: Command Line Superpowers
The Tungsten Replicator is an extraordinarily powerful and flexible tool capable of moving vast volumes of data from source to target. The Tungsten Replicator is embedded into the Tungsten Clustering solution to provide core replication services, replacing native MySQL replication.
In this blog post we will discuss a few of the commands that will make your life easier.
Converting a MySQL standalone cluster to a Composite Primary/DR topology using INI configuration
In this blog post, we demonstrate how to convert a single standalone MySQL cluster into a Composite Primary/DR topology running in two data centers.