ClusterControl Reviews

Ease of use, clear alerting and dashboards.

No update version option from the Web UI. Need to drop onto the console to upgrade.

Running large, multi node clusters can be a full time job. Cluster control takes all of that and makes it easy. Setup and forget (almost)

What I like the best is the central management console for all clusters. Deployment is easy; monitoring and backups also. There are a lot of useful features that are not in other products

Up to now, I've never been deceived by the product and since I use this product, that means 10 years, it has always been improved

The main problems I'm solving with Clustercontrol once I've deployed clusters with the monitoring and alerting features are performances, network issues, failed backups.

Easy to use and reliable.

We use it to manage 10 Postgres clusters and have found it intuitive.

I liked how it installed Postgres software and the setup of the cluster.

We had some issues with backups not working correctly, but we could resolve the problems with support.

pgbackrest support could be improved.

Restores outside of the cloud could also be improved.

We use Cluster Control for the Postgres HA to secure and back up our clusters.

It saves us hours of configuration and management and gives us a dashboard to see the health of our clusters.

Cluster Control configures and deploys new nodes for replication quickly and reliably. Its automated cluster- and node recovery features have been invaluable to our service reliability. Configuring backups is easy enough for a toddler and the ability to automatically restore & verify backups after creation gives us peace of mind.

While CC provides sane defaults, changing certain settings isn't possible via the web ui. In general, the web-ui is dated and a bit messy. Good news though: There is now a preview for their new UI which looks to be a treat!

We are a very small company serving an increasing number of bigger businesses. Expectations for the product are very high, and our resources are constrained. Using Cluster Control helps us be responsible with our Database and its contents without adding complexity. Since Several Nines offers flexible hosting, we have also been able to host CC in our security boundary, reducing the risks and minutiae of adding another subprocessor.

- Management functionalities

- Slave Management

- Easy import of clusters

- pricing. thats all i can say. i think pricing per node is just too expansive for me

- check the pricing first

- Visualized state of database health, notification when somethings go wrong

it is very easy to setup, the documentation is great and the support is fast. Also the software itself, with its automatic repair/reconcile features is very easy to maintain. It is an all in one solution for a database cluster.

There is no information/newsletter or push notification from the software when a new version is available. Also, the pricing is quite high; you pay a 4 digits sum for a single datanode.

You should definitly order the support option; they do a check twice a year and a meetup with their experts to make sure their software can handle your needs; that was very important to us.

Having a cluster managed by clustercontrol makes everything very easy. You dont need to have the specific knowledge of how a certain cluster type works; it is all very click-ready and easy. Our biggest benefit is to have 100% available database; which is great for our customers. we can steer the traffic from one node to another without any downtime an can maintain the other nodes easily. The automatic backup feature and notification integration is also a big benefit for us.

Great support for automation and deep monitoring of a lot of metrics for almost all Opensource Database engines.

Some aspects about integration with backup tools for Postgres may be improved.

Monitoring and advanced management for PostgreSQL Clusters

A single pane of view of entire DB stacks

Supports managing multiple databases.

Automatic cluster recovery functionality.

Automatic cluster creation and database configuration.

Does not support containers and kubernetes-based environment.

No feature to profile different users/groups to grant access to specific databases.

License is based on per node.

Automation of Cluster Provisioning, scheduling backup and performance monitoring.

Seamless configuration of Disaster recovery using automatic replication.

Automatic recovery helps in maintaining the SLA with higher uptime.

Impressive graphs and available for the performance monitor

Sometimes we faced issues with restoring Percona backups

Manage DB clusters and move to DR site in quick passion

ClusterControl helps in easing admin/monitoring tasks. almost all the maintenance activities can be done from CC efficiently.

Without enabling slow-query logging into files, its not able to show full queries being executed in the DB (if the query is of large characters).

Able to identify pain areas easily. Also, automated backup maintenance through CC.