Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.6 is now available

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.6 on November 15, 2016.

• PMM Server is distributed through Docker Hub
• PMM Client packages are available on the download page

The instructions for installing or upgrading Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.6 are available in the documentation. Detailed release notes are available here.

New in PMM Server:

• Prometheus 1.2.2
• External static files are now local for PMM home page
• Metrics Monitor improvements:
  • Added Amazon RDS OS Metrics dashboard and CloudWatch data source.
  • Added the PMM Server host to metrics monitoring.
  • Refactored MongoDB dashboards.
  • Added File Descriptors graph to System Overview dashboard.
  • Added Mountpoint Usage graph to Disk Space dashboard.
• Query Analytics improvements:
  • QAN data is now purged correctly.
  • QAN data retention is made configurable with QUERIES_RETENTION option. The default is eight days.
  • Various small fixes to Query Analytics.

New in PMM Client:

• Fixes for mysql:queries service using Performance Schema as query source:
  • Fixed crash when DIGEST_TEXT is NULL.
  • Removed iteration over all query digests on startup.
  • Added sending of query examples to QAN if available (depends on the workload).
• Added query source information for mysql:queries service in pmm-admin list output.
• Added purge command to purge metrics data on the server.
• Updated mongodb_exporter with RocksDB support and various fixes.
• Removed --nodetype and --replset flags for mongodb:metrics. The --cluster flag is now optional.
  It is recommended to re-add mongodb:metrics service and purge existing MongoDB metrics using the purgecommand.
• Enabled monitoring of file descriptors (requires re-adding linux:metrics service).
• Improved full uninstallation when PMM Server is unreachable.
• Added time drift check between server and client to pmm-admin check-network output.

Live demo of PMM is available at pmmdemo.percona.com.

We welcome your feedback and questions on our PMM forum.

About Percona Monitoring and Management
Percona Monitoring and Management is an open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL and MongoDB performance. It is developed by Percona in collaboration with experts in the field of managed database services, support and consulting.

PMM is a free and open-source solution that you can run in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

About the Author

Alexey Zhebel
Alexey works for Percona as a Technical Writer responsible for open source software documentation. He joined the company in March 2015 with almost 8 years of prior experience in writing and managing technical documentation. Before joining Percona, Alexey worked for Oracle on Java SE and Java ME documentation. And before that his writing experience revolved around virtualization and information security software. Alexey has a degree in Electrical Engineering and a supplementary qualification in translation theory (Russian-English). He lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia with his wife and son. He spends his free time practicing and playing ultimate frisbee in a local team.