by Anil Joshi | Jun 20, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Storage Engine
Managing farms of MySQL servers under a replication environment is very efficient with the help of a MySQL orchestrator tool. This ensures a smooth transition happens when there is any ad hoc failover or a planned/graceful switchover comes into action. Several...
by Agustín | Jun 1, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source
In a previous post, Using DBdeployer to manage MySQL, Percona Server, and MariaDB sandboxes, we covered how we use DBdeployer within the Support Team to easily create MySQL environments for testing purposes. Here, I will expand on what Peter wrote in Installing MySQL...
by Ceri Williams | Mar 6, 2020 | MySQL, Open Source, ProxySQL
In the MySQL ecosystem, orchestrator is the most popular and well-respected high availability and topology management tool, integrating well with other solutions such as ProxySQL. It facilitates automatic (or manual) discovery, refactoring and recovery of a replicated...
by Colin Charles | Jun 8, 2018 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Storage Engine
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Some big news out from Microsoft about their acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion. GitHub hosts many projects, including...
by Dave Avery | Aug 31, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Live, ProxySQL
Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter....
by Alexey Zhebel | May 29, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.4 on May 29, 2017. For installation instructions, see the Deployment Guide. This release includes experimental support for MongoDB in Query Analytics, including updated QAN interface. Query...
by Tibor Korocz | Nov 9, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, ProxySQL
In this blog post, I am going to show you how can you use Orchestrator and ProxySQL together. In my previous blog post, I showed how to use bash scripts and move virtual IPs with Orchestrator. As in that post, I assume you already have Orchestrator working. If not,...
by Tibor Korocz | Nov 3, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this post, I’ll discuss how to moving VIPs during a failover using Orchestrator. In our previous post, we showed you how Orchestrator works. In this post, I am going to give you a proof-of-concept on how Orchestrator can move VIPs in case of failover. For...
by Tibor Korocz | Apr 13, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In our previous post, we showed how Orchestrator can handle complex replication topologies. Today we will discuss how the Orchestrator-agent complements Orchestrator by monitoring our servers, and provides us a snapshot and recovery abilities if there are problems....
by Tibor Korocz | Mar 8, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
This blog post discusses Orchestrator: MySQL Replication Topology Manager. What is Orchestrator? Orchestrator is a replication topology manager for MySQL. It has many great features: The topology and status of the replication tree is automatically detected and...
