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Companies Rely on PagerDuty. PagerDuty Relies on Percona.

Since starting work with Percona in 2020, the PagerDuty team has relied on Percona for MySQL unmeasured support around its MySQL instances. This has enabled the teams at PagerDuty and Percona to collaborate and deliver on projects more efficiently and maintain availability for the company’s services.

Customer

PagerDuty

Industry

Software

Company Size

1000+

Support and Services

Percona Support for MySQL
MySQL 5.7 End of Life Migration Support

Technology

MySQL

The Problem

PagerDuty supports IT operations staff to do what they do best – keep critical applications running, business operations flowing smoothly, and value transactions taking place. For the company’s customers, PagerDuty connects Incident Management, AIOps, Automation and Customer Service Operations in one place so that IT, DevOps, security, and business teams can work more efficiently.

Behind this, PagerDuty relies on its Operations Cloud to run those services and processes that power its customers’ own procedures. Any issue in the company’s own IT infrastructure could affect the availability of services that clients rely on. With brand value interlinked with reliability and timely delivery, any and all potential issues need to be planned for.

Databases are no exception. With data at the heart of the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, the company’s Database Reliability Engineers have to be fully confident that their databases are performing at maximum efficiency and reliability.

The Solution

PagerDuty works with Percona on support for its low-level database instances.

Using Percona Support for MySQL includes everything from specific asks around performance issues to critical support if and when something goes wrong. Russ Smith, Database Reliability Engineer at PagerDuty leads the relationship with Percona for PagerDuty, and his team can call on Percona’s expertise whenever required.

Key Takeaways

 

As an example, PagerDuty had a server that was misconfigured and a scheduled migration that should have taken hours ran for several days. As a result, the PagerDuty DBRE team reached out to Percona for support. Within a few hours, Percona was able to identify the problem and put into action fix recommendations.

Resolving this technical issue meant that a critical customer-facing project was completed on time, which was absolutely vital for PagerDuty’s business operations. The partnership between PagerDuty and Percona ensures that when it comes to data, no problem is insurmountable.

PagerDuty has recently worked with Percona around its migration projects for MySQL 5.7, which came to end of life status in October 2023. Working together, Percona and PagerDuty built migration plans and completed moves for critical applications, while PagerDuty used the Percona team for support around further applications and services that would be moved over time.

PagerDuty relies on Percona support for MySQL server implementations across the business. These database instances support applications that are critical to PagerDuty’s customers, so they have to be reliable, available and perform well at all times. Alongside support for MySQL in general, PagerDuty’s DBRE team also availed themselves of end of life migration and extended support around MySQL 5.7.

PagerDuty benefits from:

  • Access to support and experience around MySQL performance and availability around the clock
  • Proactive and reactive support to improve system and database performance for applications
  • End of life support for applications that rely on MySQL 5.7, complete with long-term extended support options and migration planning assistance

“Percona are the MySQL experts and the support their team can provide is invaluable during times of crisis. Having someone to ask low-level database questions to is an enormous weight off our shoulders. We’ve used Percona for everything from finding a bad configuration to validating and submitting MySQL bug reports, and ensuring that mission-critical projects around data come off without a hitch.”

Russ Smith
Database Reliability Engineer

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud revolutionizes how critical work gets done, and powers the agility that drives digital transformation. Customers rely on the PagerDuty Operations Cloud to compress costs, accelerate productivity, win revenue, sustain seamless digital experiences, and earn customer trust. More than half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 trust PagerDuty including Cisco, Cox Automotive, DoorDash, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Shopify, Zoom and more.

 

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