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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 various options for performance tuning MySQL server for better replica replication performance.

Cloud-based managed MySQL data services have become popular choices for businesses. While these services offer advantages, they also come with a host of drawbacks that can impact performance, control, and costs. This post explores these key drawbacks in detail and compares those to Tungsten Clustering running in the cloud, also multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud and on-premises.

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

Learn why Aurora Global Database from Amazon may not be a truly global solution for multi-region deployment, and how Tungsten Cluster can help achieve seamless failover in the event of regional outages, without affecting unaffected regions, keeping applications online, and with failback capability.

It may seem arduous, but there are ways to build a database stack where you have full control of your data and data operations. For mission-critical applications that must perform continuously 24/7/365, it might make a lot of sense to consider, as there are many benefits to taking control of your mission-critical data and operations. Below are a couple important points to consider when doing an analysis of what’s best for your application and end users.

In this blog, Continuent’s CEO and Founder, Eero Teerikorpi, was prompted by a headline in the Finnish News to write about the MySQL and MariaDB business and ecosystem.

Running highly-available WordPress is especially challenging, because WordPress is not by nature Active/Active-aware, and will refuse to run in an environment where database writes are active-active. In this blog post Part 1, we will explore the design considerations for making WordPress highly-available at the database layer. We also cover some other WordPress HA architecture needs, like the need for a shared filesystem.

Tungsten Clustering depends on a number of prerequisites and best practices to function optimally. In this blog post, we explore a critical, yet easily-overlooked step when installing a Tungsten Cluster node - setting up start at boot, ideally under `systemd` control.

Continuent is the leading provider of database clustering for MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona MySQL, enabling mission-critical apps to run on these open source databases globally. Having worked with several Fortune 100 customers and been around these database “farms,” I feel comfortable discussing what clustering is, and some of the benefits of clustering your database servers.

You already know that you need to back up your database, but it takes so long and requires a lot of compute resources. With a few tricks, we can make the backup process quick!

Migrating to the cloud with zero downtime is a problem that companies running mission-critical applications have to solve, but not on their own. If you’re running a MySQL or MariaDB database it can be easy. Many of our customers have done this successfully, simplifying their overall Cloud migration process by making the database layer easy to move. It’s one less thing to worry about.