How to monitor a MySQL NDB cluster with Grafana
Jason Mallory is a senior MySQL/SQL server database administrator who develops monitoring and alerting solutions for operations departments in the aerospace industry. Jason is also a Grafana Champion. MySQL Network Database — or NDB, for short — is an in-memory, sharded database platform. Consisting of several moving parts, NDB can be one of the most challenging database platforms to monitor. However, monitoring NDB cluster health is crucial to ensure reliability and performance.