by Adamo Tonete | Sep 17, 2018 | Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete, as he presents Percona Server for MongoDB vs MongoDB Enterprise on Wednesday, September 19th, 2018, at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) / 3:30 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now In this webinar we will evaluate MongoDB...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Sep 17, 2018 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Live, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.7-1.5 on September 17, 2018. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable...
by Jericho Rivera | Sep 17, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Software, Security
This is the first of a two-part series on using the keyring_vault plugin with Percona Server for MySQL 5.7. The second part, Backing up Percona Server for MySQL with keyring_vault plugin enabled, walks through how to use Percona Xtrabackup to backup from this instance...
by Colin Charles | Sep 14, 2018 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live, PostgreSQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. This week wraps up the London MySQL meetup, where there were four presentations, for the intimate yet diverse crowd. We saw...
by Avinash Vallarapu | Sep 14, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, PostgreSQL, Webinars
Please join Percona’s PostgreSQL Support Technical Lead, Avinash Vallarapu; Senior Support Engineer, Fernando Laudares; and Senior Support Engineer, Jobin Augustine, on Wednesday, October 10th, 2018 at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4), as they demonstrate...
by Ceri Williams | Sep 14, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Software, Security
In my last post I compared data at-rest encryption features available for MySQL and MariaDB. As noted at the time, some of the features available for Percona Server for MySQL were in development, and the latest version (5.7.23) sees two of them released as ALPHA...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Sep 13, 2018 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.12 on September 13, 2018. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL®, MongoDB®...
by Abbas Ahmed | Sep 13, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post we shall discuss how you can analyze slow query logs from Amazon Aurora for MySQL, (referred to as Amazon Aurora in the remaining blog). The tools and techniques explained here apply to the other MySQL compatible services available under Amazon...
by Borys Belinsky | Sep 12, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.23-23 on September 12, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.7.23, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for...
by David Bennett | Sep 12, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Experimental Build of Percona XtraBackup 8.0 released An experimental alpha version of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.1 is now available in the Percona experimental software repositories. A few things to note about this release: We removed the deprecated innobackupex in this...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 11, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
In my previous blog post, I showed how to deploy Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) on Linode manually. It is pretty simple, but with a little coding it can be done even more easily using StackScripts Here’s how: 1. Click on the “Add a Linode” and pick a...
by James Lawrie | Sep 10, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL, Security
It’s 2018. Maybe now is the time to start migrating your network to IPv6, and your database infrastructure is a great place to start. Unfortunately, many legacy applications don’t offer the option to connect to MySQL directly over IPv6 (sometimes even if...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Sep 8, 2018 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL® and MongoDB® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis...
by Jervin Real | Sep 7, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Senior Consultant, Jervin Real, as he presents Migrating to AWS Aurora: A Checklist for Success. The event will take place on Tuesday, September 11th, 2018, at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now In the last few weeks,...
by Bronwyn Campbell | Sep 7, 2018 | Cloud, Percona Events
From time to time, Percona hosts and co-hosts events around the world, often at no cost for attendees. The common focus for these events is, of course, open source databases. On October 3 2018, we team up with Taboola for an evening of talks suitable for all levels of...
by Corrado Pandiani | Sep 6, 2018 | Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
by Laurie Coffin | Sep 6, 2018 | MariaDB, Percona Events, Percona Live
We are excited to announce we have joined the MariaDB Foundation as a Bronze Sponsor! Percona’s mission is to be an unbiased champion of open source databases. We pride ourselves on helping customers avoid vendor lock-in by supporting them across a range of database...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Sep 5, 2018 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL® and MongoDB® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis...
by Agustín | Sep 5, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Software
Do you need to modify the metrics collected from Linux by Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)? In this blog post we will see how to enable, disable, and update collected metrics on PMM’s linux:metrics exporter. We will assume that the PMM client packages...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Sep 4, 2018 | MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Chief Technology Officer, Vadim Tkachenko, as he presents Running MySQL in Kubernetes on Thursday, September 6th, 2018, at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now Without question, Kubernetes is the most popular container...