by Tim Vaillancourt | Feb 27, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog, we’ll go over some useful metrics WiredTiger outputs and how we visualize them in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). WiredTiger is the default...
by Jon Tobin | Feb 24, 2017 | Monitoring, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. This post is meant to walk a prospective user through the benefits of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), how it’s architected and the simple install process. By the end...
by Przemysław Malkowski | Feb 24, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL
UPDATE: Some of the language in the original post was considered overly-critical of Oracle by some community members. This was not my intent, and I’ve modified the language to be less so. I’ve also changed the term “synchronous” (which the use of is...
by David Murphy | Feb 23, 2017 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. This release includes Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Monitoring and Management, and Percona Toolkit. In this post, we’ll look at the features included in Percona...
by Dave Avery | Feb 22, 2017 | MySQL, Security, Webinars
Please join Sveta Smirnova, Percona’s Principal Technical Services Engineer, as she presents Troubleshooting MySQL Access Privileges Issues on February 23, 2017 at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Do you have registered users who can’t connect to the MySQL...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Feb 22, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In mid-2016, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) added support for RocksDB with MongoDB, also known as “MongoRocks.” In this blog, we will go over the Percona...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 22, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the GA release of Percona XtraBackup 2.4.6 on February 22, 2017. You can download it from our download site and apt and yum repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large...
by Hrvoje Matijakovic | Feb 22, 2017 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.3.7 on February 22, 2017. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories. Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with...
by Barrett Chambers | Feb 21, 2017 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. The purpose of this blog post is to demonstrate current best-practices for an in-place Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) upgrade. Following this method allows you to...
by Dave Avery | Feb 21, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona’s MongoDB Practice Manager David Murphy on Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 10:00 am PST / 1:00 pm EST (UTC-8) as he reviews and discusses the Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and Percona Toolkit product bundle release....
by David Murphy | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is the first in a series on our Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. This release includes Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Monitoring and Management, and Percona Toolkit. In this post, we’ll look at the features included in the...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 3.0.1 on February 20, 2017. This is the first general availability (GA) release in the 3.0 series with a focus on padding MongoDB tools: pt-mongodb-summary pt-mongodb-query-digest Downloads are available from...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.1 on February 20, 2017. This is the first general availability (GA) release in the PMM 1.1 series with a focus on providing alternative deployment options for PMM Server: OVA image for VirtualBox...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.2-1.2 on February 20, 2017. It is the first general availability (GA) release in the 3.4 series. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server...
by Sveta Smirnova | Feb 16, 2017 | MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll look at a workaround for MySQL bug 72804. Recently I worked on a ticket where a customer performed a point-in-time recovery PITR using a large set of binary logs. Normally we handle this by applying the last backup, then re-applying all...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 16, 2017 | MySQL
In this blog we’ll look at the results from Percona’s blog poll on what programming languages you’re using for backend development. Late last year we started a poll on what backend programming languages are being used by the open source community. The three...
by Dave Avery | Feb 16, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
UPDATE: Sveta Smirnova will be speaking at M17! Her talk is titled Lessons Learned: Troubleshooting Replication. It covers the similarities and differences between MySQL and MariaDB replication, and how to make the correct configuration choices to avoid problems. In...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 15, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post is my overview of Group Replication technology. With Oracle clearly entering the “open source high availability solutions” arena with the release of their brand new Group Replication solution, I believe it is time to review the quality of the first GA...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 15, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll point to a new Docker image for Percona Server for MySQL Group Replication. Our most recent release of Percona Server for MySQL (Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.17) comes with Group Replication plugins. Unfortunately, since this technology...
by Dave Avery | Feb 14, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 will once again host crash courses on MySQL and MongoDB. Read below to get an outstanding discount on either the MySQL or MongoDB crash course (or both). The database community constantly tells us how hard it is to...
