# ClusterControl Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is ClusterControl the right Database solution for you? Explore 66 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/142351/ClusterControl/reviews --- ClusterControl 4.4 (66) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/142351/ClusterControl/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of ClusterControl Ease of use 4.2 Customer Service 4.4 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews CA Cihat Okan A System AdministratorEducation Management, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “Query monitor is also perfect for missing database settings..“ August 28, 2020 JH Jose Eduardo H DevOpsE-Learning, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “The high price of the non-free version, that is too much for a start-up, even with their special plan for small companies.“ September 2, 2020 FS Florin S Senior Business partnerInformation Technology and Services, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “Very good and would have liked to acquire a full license however right now our budget is very restricted.“ September 2, 2020 ZR Zsótér R Solution EngineerTelecommunications, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “I could fix everything but wasn't easy to guess (from error message) what the real problem is.“ September 3, 2020 ZR Zsótér R Solution EngineerTelecommunications, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: I used a free trial. “Really ideal for managing of database.“ September 3, 2020 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 66 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Musa M. Systems Administrator Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "We start using clustercontrol and stopped looking for alternatives" March 1, 2018 5.0 We are now able to scale up to meet user demand as well as administer our databases from a single point. Pros Ease of use is one. We love the features and how it brings some other related services under one administrative control e.g. haproxy. Reports in their various forms and the ability to create custom reports are some of the features we're most in love with as well. Clustercontrols's quick provisioning and decommissioning is a right fit for our scaling needs. Cons Customer support. For some reason I am not able to reach customer support via email and for that reason we're stuck using the community edition with reduced features at this time. Review Source Response from Severalnines March 5, 2018 Thank you for the feedback, I will make sure we get in touch with you to make sure you get the support you need! VR Verified Reviewer senior staff Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "enjoying using this software since it is very helpful and interactive software" March 2, 2018 5.0 Data management Pros i like cluster control due to its ability to centralize the communication from both analog and digital I/O . Monitoring system activities is easy Eg managing data record on a large scale like data for organization which could have been tedious to handle. Cons involves keen and logical thinking and has got limitations in diffrent environments in which the software is working for example When using windows CE. when a control overlaps the cluster shell in a Touch Panel VI, the entire control is still completely visible when you build the VI into an application. If the control is completely outside the cluster shell, the control will not be not visible. Review Source Response from Severalnines March 5, 2018 Thank you for your feedback, I have passed it along to the Product team For reference here is a link of the browsers we support https://severalnines.com/docs/requirements.html#supported-browsers VR Verified Reviewer Unix Linux System Administrator Consumer Goods Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Its good, still not fulfil some functionality which required for big production." June 2, 2018 3.0 Pros Its really did many important tasks efficiently. I liked the auto recovery option, backup verification, Restore option, auto upload to cloud. Migration processes very smooth. Cons 60% ability to handle big production system. The backup operation still has many missing issues which we need to handle big database. Job Schedule functionality is a single thread. Graphs and Optimisation are not perfect for high load environment. Don't have checkup option. I found some major bug like add a new node which is not cloning my my.cnf configuration as like others nodes hand. CC generate a default configuration which had a bug and I was not able to deploy a new node. Without test related this type of updates is very unexpected. Review Source Response from Severalnines June 5, 2018 Thank you for your review and feedback. Regarding adding new nodes, we base the configuration from a template. Not sure if you had updated the template, but we have added better help texts in version 1.6.1. Thanks again, we will pass it along to the product team :) Alexander B. IT Engineer Computer Games Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "very good cross platform tool" March 5, 2018 5.0 maybe this is the best solution, even community version, for DB tuning! Pros very good dashboards, you can find weak places on comparing dashboards values in one place. Maybe the best solution for tuning databases values. Cons 1\. you couldn't skip some alerts. For example, you have alert from category DBHealth about Use wsrep\_sst\_method=xtrabackup-v2 instead. But I don't like to use it and I don't like to skip all the warnings of DBHealth category . 2. It could be better if there was a line, across all dashboards. So for example, you put your mouse point on one place of dashboard and the line shows the statement on other - this would be really good. 3. Not good, that you don't show prices for commercial solutions( But You have made something really cool Review Source Response from Severalnines March 7, 2018 Thanks for the feedback, I will pass it along to the product team Mohammed F. Technology Implementation Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "ClusterControl is an all in one database management platform with a tons of features" August 12, 2019 4.0 Pros We have tested the cluster control tool trial. It's loaded with tons of database management features and it is reliable. Some of the key features of this tool is as follows. Easy to deploy and manage production database systems. Advanced Auto recovery during node failures. Database servers can be scaled and managed easily. Multi node cluster support. Galera support for MySQL. MongoDB replication and Sharding clusters. Scheduled auto backup. Advanced database monitoring with integrated tools to gain insight from metrics. Excellent support team. Cons Need to include features for managing other DBMS and NoSQL database like Hbase etc. Review Source Response from Severalnines August 13, 2019 Thank you for your review, We appreciate the feedback on adding new databases, feel free to reach out directly with your recommendations and we will take a look. Stephen L. Senior Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Not fully tested" August 28, 2018 5.0 Pros I loved the trial I had of cluster control. It provides an aws rds type layer on top of a galera cluster. It also promises cluster recovery in the event of crashed nodes. Cons I didn't get a chance to fully test all of the features so I can't comment as to the reliability of all the promised functionality. Review Source Response from Severalnines August 30, 2018 Thanks for the feedback, hope you get to spend some more time with the product in the future! VR Verified Reviewer Directeur Général Program Development Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A must have for database management" August 30, 2018 5.0 I use ClusterControl to deploy and manage galera cluster of my clients. Saved so much time deploying and monitoring clusters with CC. Pros Easy to use. You can create a cluster and monitor your database with ease ! No need to worry about boring configuration, CC do the work. Cons Price per node is a little bit to expensive but worth it Review Source Response from Severalnines September 4, 2018 Thank you for the review, we are very grateful for your kind words! Kamal R. Development Manager Internet Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "My Experience about cluster control" August 29, 2018 5.0 Pros \- Ease of installation - Good documentation - Ease of cluster recovery - Very good GUI - Very good monitoring features Cons \- Community version don't have essential features like adding new nodes Review Source Response from Severalnines August 30, 2018 Thank you for the feedback, Deployment should have allowed you to add a clustered setup with the community version but feel free to open a support ticket if you are running into issues VR Verified Reviewer Data Warehouse Developer Computer Software Used the software for: ### "Great product, easy to use" March 1, 2018 4.0 None yet Pros It's rich features such as mysql failover, alerts and high availability. Moreover roles of users foynd to be useful too. Cons Price is quite high knowing that it works on open source technologies. Price model could be reviewed. Review Source Response from Severalnines March 5, 2018 Thank you for your feedback, we're glad you are taking advantage of our HA functions. I will pass your pricing feedback to the management team RG Raul G. Cloud solutions team leader Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "My honest review of CC 1.7.1" March 5, 2019 5.0 Gets job done hands down Pros Very simple to operate Intuitive Great support Cons Nothing significant comes to my mind, no cons yet Review Source Response from Severalnines March 11, 2019 Thank you for the feedback, if you run into any issues remember you have Enterprise support during your trial period JP Jeffrey P. Lead Cloud Enginer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great software for managing databases" February 26, 2019 5.0 So far we have only done an initial evaluation of ClusterControl and found it to be very good, but too much is changing with our backend systems right now to move forward with any possible purchase decisions. That being said we definitely see where it can solve some of our biggest problems that we have encountered with our MySQL database. Pros Makes many tasks that are typically very difficult very easy like monitoring, automatically failing over in case of a server problem, building new database servers and managing replication. Cons It would be nice to have tighter integration with MaxScale to have more options for sql aware proxies. Review Source Response from Severalnines February 27, 2019 Thanks for your feedback on increasing Maxscale integration, I will pass it along to our Product team JF Javier F. Software Engineer Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The quickest way to deploy a good Cluster in a few steps." September 21, 2017 4.0 I start to use it without know any about this type of clusters, thanks to this I setted up my first MySQL Cluster and it introduce me to this scope. Pros The ease to set up it and start to use it. If you haven't deploy any Cluster before, this is the better way to do it. Review Source Response from Severalnines September 25, 2017 Thank you for the review! That is exactly what we want to hear as we think ClusterControl is great for the SysAdmin or DevOps folks who aren't familiar with clustering but need to get it done :) JV Juan V. Linux storage administrator Information Technology and Services Used the software for: ### "Amazed." September 14, 2017 5.0 Ease of use. Being able to have my Kubernetes Galera clúster auto discovered. Graphs and insight to my cluster. Pros I love how intuitive the interface is. Also, how easy it is to move around and find the things I need. Love the product. Review Source Response from Severalnines September 17, 2017 Thanks for the great feedback, Juan, it's much appreciated. If you're also using Docker, look out for some future updates, which we'll publish soon. Cheers, JJ - Severalnines Team MM Marcus M. CEO Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great and easy to use software" February 26, 2019 5.0 We're using ClusterControl to manage our Galera Cluster, or better, ClusterConrtol cares about our Galera Cluster so we can focus on our main tasks. Pros ItÄs easy to configure and once setup, you dont need to care about it. Everything will be done automatically without deep knowledege for MySQL / Galera Clusters. Cons The Pricing could be better / support Start-Ups. Review Source Response from Severalnines February 27, 2019 Thank you for your feedback, we are always looking at ways to improve our pricing model so please make sure you talk with our sales reps as there are quantity and other discounts available. YS Yuriy S. DBA Financial Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "ClusterControl 1.6.2 vs MongoDB and MySQL\\PerconaDB\\GaleraCluster" August 30, 2018 4.0 Easy to deploy and use system. Pros ease of use, deployment, configuration and monitoring good support for MongoDB and MySQL\\PerconaDB\\GaleraCluster quite user-friendly web interface Cons 1)lack of ability to import non-standardly deployed instanses of MongoDB 2)Insufficient management capabilities for database, tables, user roles and rights in MySQL Review Source Response from Severalnines September 4, 2018 Thank you for your feedback, I have passed your feature requests along to the product team! :) VR Verified Reviewer CTO Internet Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Lean and clean" April 19, 2019 4.0 Good experience Pros Comprehensive and efficient tool to manage a cluster of Galera servers. Cons a few tuning hints would have been great. Review Source Response from Severalnines April 23, 2019 Thanks for the feedback! VR Verified Reviewer Senior Systems Administrator Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Very reasonable experience, finding information was easy on their site. " March 8, 2018 4.0 I got an easy way to deploy, configure, and monitor a mysql cluster. It was a great help. Pros I liked that the company touched base with me after my initial download. It was just the push I needed to keep going and get the software evaluated. Cons It was somewhat cumbersome to get installed and running. Installtion instructions were detailed, but for me somewhat hard to follow. Review Source Response from Severalnines March 12, 2018 Thanks for the feedback! We are always looking to improve our install experience and will pass along your feedback to the product team. DZ Denis Z. cto Used the software for: ### "hard to install, not working with nginx out of the box." March 1, 2018 1.0 Cons while i have already webstack installed and running, this app is trying to install own webstack packages, like mariadb, httpd php etc... it breaks. no proper nginx configuration, so you have to dig into errors, obviously not working. Review Source Response from Severalnines March 5, 2018 We're sorry you were not able to get ClusterControl up and running on your setup. I checked and did not find any support requests from you, we offer 24/7 support for those in our trial period and wish we had the opportunity to help you get it working GN Gael-Jurin N. Solution Architect Information Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Need more functionnalities to evaluate" January 3, 2020 3.0 Nothing really huge, just a tried native clustering setup with MongoDB 4 and Mysql Community 5. 50% of success. Pros Looks easy for the setup, and full of good features Cons Some errors are really blocking and can demotivate a newbie Reason for choosing ClusterControl RAS Review Source Response from Severalnines June 30, 2020 Sorry you ran into challenges, I'd encourage you to reach out to our team for support. kK kunal K. DBA Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Cluster control is easy to use database system we can easily manage, monitor and autoscale cluster " March 1, 2018 4.0 yes Pros we can repeatedly deploy the database also we can choose technology stack by our self. Complete Lifecycle Management. Automate failovers, recovery and day to day tasks uniformly across polyglot databases and dynamic infrastructures. Cons This software is having highest cost, ClusterControl does the above trick when pulling and parsing the Slow Query log to overcome the problems with offsets. because of that continuous sampling might miss some queries during steps 3 to 5. Review Source Response from Severalnines March 5, 2018 Thank you for your review and feedback, we will pass it along to the product team VH Vincent H. Project Manager Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Amazing! Just the price friendly system we looked for." March 6, 2018 4.0 Pros I like most that you can easily manage your multiple database servers and get a nicd chance to feel like a pro for little money. Cons I don\`t have much bad to say, I just like it like this. Probably its a bit difficult to handle as an beginner but due to the great bandwith of their wiki you are able to learn fast. Review Source Response from Severalnines March 7, 2018 Thanks for your feedback, we appreciate it! bK bala K. database administrator Automotive Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "good tool" September 22, 2017 5.0 Pros This is a very good tool to manage cluster from GUI. deploying nodes and monitoring performance is very good. user flexibility is also very good. Cons Adding some extra hints for every option will help for the users Review Source Response from Severalnines September 25, 2017 Thank you for the feedback, that is some great feedback and I will pass it along to the team! COA Cihat Okan A. System Administrator Education Management Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "King of the Database Clusterization" August 28, 2020 5.0 Installing and configuring steps need some expert administration.. Because wrong settings may occured to lost your databases.. But with some calm, a successful installation can be made with patient and careful work. After installation everything was perfect.. Query monitor is also perfect for missing database settings.. Our database is almost better than single host installation with 3 nodes in ClusterControl.. Pros In the first install, it takes harder than console management for MAriaDB cluster for our 3 database servers. But after using its features, I saw that deploy & install zero configuration was easier than using a database.. Inserting & removing nodes to active cluster is a perfect module.. Tools of clusters are better than ever, haProxy, tuning options and others are very comfortable and reportable with ClusterControl.. Cons Adding nodes and hosts are very easy but I couldn't remove hosts from the active cluster.. There were some errors occured and also I've lost my all databases due to wrong settings.. But as a god mess, I have backups and re-installed it from zero config to fix all.. Reason for choosing ClusterControl It is easy and making easy steps to monitor everything.. Notification mails are also better and show every problem without looking the monitors all the time and outside work.. It is perfect work and manageable everything needed.. Review Source Response from Severalnines September 16, 2020 Thank you for your feedback, I have passed the issues you faced on to the product team. MW Martijn W. Manager Consultancy & Training Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "CLusterControl is a mature and easy to use product for management of database clustering software." September 21, 2017 4.0 I've been following SeveralNines a couple of years and along with that way, I discovered the maturity of their product ClusterControl. All kinds of companies find their way to optimal data, for example, companies which are operating several database types that all need attending to. For such companies, Cluster Control is a very interesting solution to consider as it automates a lot of important tasks. But also at larger companies like VidaXL with a few dozen database nodes, the automatic recovery features for clusters are a great enrichment for their database operations. Pros 1\. Automatic recovery of database (replication) clusters. 2. In my opinion one of the biggest challenges is to have in-depth knowledge about all their different database platforms being used. The builtin intelligence, advisory and health checking features of ClusterControl helps to overcome a big chunk of that gap. 3. Ease of deployment, in less then 15 minutes we are able to get a MariaDB or Percona cluster running. Cons Faster and further development of features for other database platforms besides MySQL and MongoDB would be encouraged by me. For example PostgreSQL features and maturity could be improved. Review Source Response from Severalnines September 25, 2017 Thank you for the feedback! We are working to add more features and more database technologies with each release! PostgreSQL is definitely a priority for us :) MB Michel B. IT Applications Manager Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Very easy to deploy a cluster, also it facilitates administration and monitoring." September 23, 2017 5.0 Pros The numerous templates that facilitates the deployment of servers, the configuration of cluster, proxies, keepalive service and also the planning of backups. It is the little brother of Oracle Enterprise Manager software that I did used before for oracle databases Cons I have no cons on the technical side. I find only the price per node a little high, it should be great to have a better price for qualification and development servers ans also standalone ones. Review Source Response from Severalnines September 25, 2017 Thank you for your review and feedback! We deeply value you as a customer and hope to continue to work with you in the future! We are always evaluating our pricing structures and will continue to try to find the balance between our clients value and our pricing. Similar Products Featured