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erics, December 7th, 2022
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 `s…
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erics, November 8th, 2022
We are pleased to announce that Tungsten Dashboard v1.0.11 is now available. Tungsten Dashboard is a web-based UI for monitoring and managing Tungsten Clustering deployments of MySQL databases, freely included for Tungsten Clustering customers. We prov…
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erics, October 11th, 2022
Tungsten Clustering contains many tools to monitor your cluster, and today we will look at a new one – the `tungsten_get_status` command, included with Tungsten versions 6.1.19+ and 7.0.2+. This tool was created in response to a customer request for a …
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erics, September 15th, 2022
Tungsten Replicator is a powerful tool with many great features, and today we will look at a new one – the ability to Pause and Resume a replication service. Until now, the only way to stop a replication stream was to take the service offline, and put …
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erics, August 25th, 2022
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+ and the new Tungste…
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erics, June 30th, 2022
Tungsten Clustering is a powerful tool with many moving parts, including the Tungsten Connectors which may be installed on any application server. During a troubleshooting event, it is helpful to understand what to look for and where, in addition to un…
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erics, June 28th, 2022
Tungsten Clustering allows for many types of maintenance to happen with no downtime at all. This blog post will explore how to upgrade the actual MySQL Server on all cluster nodes with zero downtime.
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erics, June 22nd, 2022
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 …
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erics, June 17th, 2022
Transaction History Log (THL) files are the core of Tungsten Replication, containing the actual MySQL write events that are replicated to the replicas. These files can take up considerable amounts of disk space, making them of interest for housekeeping…
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erics, June 10th, 2022
Performance tuning any system provides more speed for the same hardware spend, gives the end-user a better, faster experience and typically reduces the stress on staff all around. Security tuning locks down critical data to prevent unauthorized access….
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