Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.0. This release introduces the support of external Prometheus exporters so that you can create dashboards in the Metrics monitor even for the monitoring services other than those provided with PMM client packages. To attach an existing external Prometheus exporter, run pmm-admin add external:metrics NAME_OF_EXPORTER URL:PORT. The list of […]
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Percona latest blog poll asks how you currently host applications and databases. Select an option below, or leave a comment to clarify your deployment! With the increased need for environments that respond more quickly to changing business demands, many enterprises are moving to the cloud and hosted deployments for applications and software in order to […]
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In this blog post, I’ll provide some guidance on how to choose the MySQL innodb_log_file_size. Like many database management systems, MySQL uses logs to achieve data durability (when using the default InnoDB storage engine). This ensures that when a transaction is committed, data is not lost in the event of crash or power loss. MySQL’s […]
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Join Percona’s Senior Architect, Matthew Boehm, as he presents What You Need to Get the Most Out of Indexes – Part 2 webinar on Thursday, October 19, 2017, at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now Proper indexing is key to database performance. Finely tune your query writing and database performance with […]
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Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Adamo Tonete as he presents How To Scale with MongoDB on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register Now In this webinar, we will talk about how to scale with MongoDB, up to thousands of writes and reads per second. What are […]
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In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). Note: I will cover this subject in my webinar How To Scale with MongoDB on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT […]
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Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. Beyond spending time getting ready for Velocity and Open Source Summit Europe this week, there was some feature testing this week that compared MySQL and MariaDB. Naturally, a long report/blog is coming soon. Stay tuned. […]
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In this blog, we’ll look at a mystery around setting the open_file_limit variable in MySQL and Percona Server for MySQL. MySQL Server needs file descriptors to run. It uses them to open new connections, store tables in the cache, create temporary tables to resolve complicated queries and access persistent ones. If mysqld is not able […]
Read MorePercona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.2. This release only contains bug fixes related to usability. For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management. Bug fixes PMM-1529: When the user selected “Today”, “This week”, “This month” or “This year” range in Metrics Monitor and clicked the Query Analytics button, the QAN […]
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Join Percona’s MongoDB Practice Manager David Murphy on Thursday, October 12, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7) as he discusses MongoDB Readiness from an SRE and Ops Viewpoint. Register Now Operations teams (SRE, PE, DevOps, etc.) are being asked to take a more active role in database provisioning and scaling. Much […]
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