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Prometheus and Grafana are open source tools that can be used for monitoring MySQL clusters. Prometheus can be used to collect metrics from MySQL clusters, and Grafana can be used to visualize the metrics. Starting with Tungsten v7, using the new Tungsten Prometheus Exporter feature, it’s become easy to leverage the best these powerful monitoring tools have to offer.

In this blog post, we explore the 10 basic steps for doing a secure Tungsten Clustering deployment. A fresh Tungsten version 7 installation is secure by default. We also cover the various tungsten.ini options that impact an install.

This article will explain how to use rsync to quickly provision a database.

In this blog, we cover Continuents plans on the support model for the new MySQL “Innovation” releases.

If you are upgrading from MySQL 5.x to MySQL 8, using Tungsten Clustering or Tungsten Replicator, then you may need to prepare yourself for a little gotcha.

VMware chose to migrate key MySQL database from Galera (MariaDB Cluster) to Tungsten. In this blog we will look at the key reasons for why VMware ultimately decided that Tungsten Cluster would better fit their multi-site MySQL clusters.

This blog post will walk you through configuring HA Proxy for the Tungsten Dashboard, along with the new command `tpm generate-haproxy-for-api` which helps automate the process by translating existing INI files into haproxy.cfg config file format. The Tungsten Dashboard is a browser-based GUI, designed to make using a Tungsten Cluster as easy as possible.

This post shares the links to three short demo videos, each an easy-to-follow walk-through of how to launch 3-node single, active/passive or active/active Tungsten MySQL clusters using AWS CloudFormation.

Read this blog to get a more in-depth understanding of what the Tungsten Cluster AMI is, how it works and how to use it in order to easily deploy MySQL database clusters and more.

Read this blog to get a high-level introduction to AWS CloudFormation Templates, and a walkthrough on how to launch our CloudFormation template for the Tungsten Cluster AMI to run highly available MySQL database clusters in the AWS cloud.

We’ve just recently brought our Tungsten Cluster (AMI) up to the current release level of our flagship product, Tungsten Cluster, and would like to invite users to give it a test drive!

We’ve just recently brought our Continuent Tungsten AMIs up to the current release level of our flagship products, Tungsten Cluster and Tungsten Replicator, and would like to invite users to give them a test drive!