Levitate - Last9's managed TSDB is available on AWS Marketplace.

As a database administrator, ensuring the smooth running of your MySQL database is paramount. Keeping an eye on vital statistics such as uptime, query performance, and resource utilization is a crucial aspect of maintaining database health. Fortunately, several monitoring tools are available in the market to help you keep track of these metrics. These tools provide you with insights that enable you to optimize database performance and prevent any potential threats.

The SPACE framework is an acronym for an approach to measuring, understanding, and optimizing engineering productivity. Outlined by researchers from GitHub, Microsoft, and the University of Victoria, it encourages leaders to look at productivity holistically, placing leading metrics in context with each other and linking them to output, often team goals, rather than individual effort. The SPACE framework breaks productivity into five metrics.

Cybersecurity threats are increasing in volume, complexity and impact. Yet, organisations struggle to counter these growing threats. Cyber attacks often intend to steal, damage, hijack or alter value-generating data. In this article around database security, we use the NIST framework to lay out the common controls that you can implement to secure your databases. Let’s start by discussing the potential impact of unsecured databases.

In our extensive guide of best ci/cd practices we included a dedicated section for database migrations and why they should be completely automated and given the same attention as application deployments. We explained the theory behind automatic database migrations, but never had the opportunity to talk about the actual tools and give some examples on how database migrations should be handled by a well disciplined software team.

Over the last decade, I’ve rarely met a data professional whose organization wasn’t experiencing data growth and making more demands of their data. We build and deploy new applications faster than we retire old ones, and new data is accumulating dramatically faster on our existing systems than our ability to decide to delete older information. Additionally, the ever-growing number of users and devices interacting with that data increases the strain on the infrastructure underpinning it.

A deep dive comparison between Thanos and VictoriaMetrics: Performance and Differences.

In a series of blog posts about AI, I’ve been looking at how intelligent ChatGPT is, how good ChatGPT and Bing are when you employ them as a technology writer, and how the engineering team at Redgate is using GitHub Copilot to aid with writing code. Now it’s time to take a look at image creation tools, and where better to start than Andy Warhol? I like Andy Warhol.

This article will outline what Redis database monitoring is and how to set up a Redis database monitoring system with MetricFire. Then we’ll show what the final graphs and dashboards look like when displayed on Grafana. We will be using Prometheus and Grafana to power the monitoring, and we'll use a simulated Redis DB to generate the data for the Grafana dashboards. ‍ ‍

The rise in popularity of open-source RBDMs has encouraged many organizations to adopt PostgreSQL, but as a DBA or Developer, it can be challenging when exploring new database platforms, no matter how experienced you are. When looking at SQL Server, it has many similarities to PostgreSQL, but there are several big differences too.