Familiar with the feeling when a critical system’s backup and recovery time is measured in hours? Operations teams rely heavily on the availability of monitoring data, so scheduling long periods of downtime is simply not an option. We recently faced this exact challenge: we had to schedule a multi-hour downtime because our MariaDB database had…
Read MoreChoosing the right backup solution is critical for system administrators and IT professionals. The upcoming NetEye 4.41 version will bring an update to MariaDB, moving from version 10.3 to 10.11. This makes it especially timely to explore the opportunities offered by the Mariabackup tool in order to be fully prepared for the changes ahead. This…
Read MoreAs technology continually evolves, keeping our software stack up to date is essential for performance, security, and access to new functionalities. In this post, I want to share how we upgraded MariaDB from version 10.3 to 10.11 as part of the NetEye 4.41 release. This upgrade was not only a technical necessity, but a strategic…
Read MoreOur older customers surely know that, in its earliest releases, NetEye 4 had no support for multitenancy. From a data perspective, there’s just one big bin we throw everything into to be used later. Then, a debate about multitenancy began. Here at Würth Phoenix we’ve discussed at length about the best way to segregate data…
Read MoreA frequent request I get is how to view the availability of hosts and/or services within a Grafana dashboard. Here I demonstrate how to do this for host availability. To implement this, we first create a new table in our MariaDB on NetEye. I’ll call this table host_daily_sla and put it in the pre-existing reporting…
Read MoreDuring the NetEye User Group in November 2019, I presented the future vision of a new, completely distributed architecture to allow more flexibility, performance and scalability. In particular, a more flexible and scalable architecture is helpful for large environments such as Managed Service Provider infrastructures or for monitoring solutions as a service (i.e., NetEye 4…
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