Monitor Cassandra Clusters with Percona PMM - JMX Grafana and Prometheus
While reading this title you may think about what this guy is going to do? Its all about JMX exporter from prometheus and Grafana. Yes, its already implemented by many companies and Grafana has some cool dashboards. But as a DBA, in Searce we are managing many customers and all of them are using many types of databases. So from a DBA’s perspective to monitor all databases in one place is always a great thing right. If you are a MySQL DBA, then you must have heard about PMM. Its an awesome monitoring tool and its open source. Also it has Dashboards for Linux metrics, MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
MySQL PITR The Fastest Way With DevOps
Point In Time Recovery - is a nightmare for DBAs if the MySQL clusters are self managed. It was 10PM, after had my dinner I was simply watching some shows in YouTube. And my phone was ringing, the customer on other side. Due to some bad queries, one of the main table get updated without where clause. Then suddenly everyone joined the call and asking me to bring the data back. That day it took 6 to 8 Hours to bring the data. Yes, every DBAs will do one or two biggest mistakes. In my carrier I would say this was that day. So here is my MySQL PITR the fastest way with DevOps.
