Server Monitoring Best Practices: Keeping Your Shopify App and MySQL Clusters Alive on Google Cloud
Proactive MySQL Cluster Health Checks with `pt-heartbeat` Maintaining the health and replication lag of MySQL clusters, especially those powering critical Shopify applications, demands more than just basic CPU/memory monitoring. For high-availability setups, particularly with replication, understanding replication lag is paramount. The Percona Toolkit’s `pt-heartbeat` is an indispensable tool for this. It writes a timestamp to […]