Aug 27, 2024 |
Monitoring, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’ve received numerous reports about issues occurring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) when updating to the latest version (currently 2.42.0), or updating to any version from an old version (2.37.1 and before) using the update button on the UI. Symptoms PMM won’t show any notifications on the UI about new available versions if: You’ve […]
Jun 03, 2024 |
Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a powerful tool for keeping your databases healthy, but what about PMM itself? While it comes pre-packaged as an appliance, PMM’s internal workings can be complex. Many users, including our internal teams, frequently ask: “How can I tell if everything inside PMM is functioning properly?” To address this need, […]
May 21, 2024 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Ensuring your monitoring system stays up and running is vital. High availability (HA) minimizes downtime for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) during hardware failures, in times of disaster recovery, or increased usage of the tool. It’s not just about extra storage, RAM, or CPU but rather having redundant systems ready to take over seamlessly, like […]
Aug 24, 2023 |
Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
Welcome to our guide on keeping your Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server and Client up-to-date. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through a method to ensure your PMM solution runs the latest and most secure versions. It’s important to note that this is just one option among many, and we’re eager to hear […]
May 08, 2023 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
We are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.37, which includes a revamped Inventory view, new experimental dashboards for Kubernetes monitoring, as well as many other improvements and new features. See the full list of changes in the release notes. To get started with PMM 2.37, check out the PMM Quickstart guide. […]
Apr 17, 2023 |
Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
So your company is using Datadog on the global level. Still, as DBA, you want to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for better database insights and maintain a common policy of Datadog as a standard alerting or high-level observability tool. Percona Monitoring and Management is not intended to replace Datadog; rather, they work better […]
Dec 19, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
We are excited to announce the latest release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – V2.33. This release includes several new features and improvements that make PMM even more effective and user-friendly. Some of the key highlights of PMM V2.33 include: Offline metric collection during PMM server outages or loss of PMM client-server network connectivity […]
Nov 15, 2022 |
Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Backup Management for MongoDB and other improvements in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v.2.32 that has been released in November 2022. Details are in this blog and also in the PMM 2.32 Release Notes. PMM is now on the scene with a new Home Dashboard […]
Sep 28, 2022 |
Monitoring, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Autumn brought new cool features and improvements to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) in V2.31. Enhanced user experience with the updated main menu, Alerting, and better PostgreSQL autovacuum observability with the new Vacuum dashboard are the major themes that we focused on in this release. Check out our Release Note of 2.31 for the full […]
Sep 02, 2022 |
Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this v2.30 release, we have focused on improving Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for usability, refining the dashboards (effortless root cause analysis), Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality, and seamless onboarding to align with your needs. Your valuable feedback along with your contributions is important to us. Please keep contributing to take PMM to […]
Sep 29, 2021 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
As Technical Product Manager, I get a lot of user feedback, both positive and negative. In recent months many people have complained about the Home dashboard. It went something like this: “Hey, the Home page is useless! We have several hundred services monitored by a single Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), so this list of […]
May 19, 2020 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
As we have just released the new Security Threat Tool (STT) as part of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.6, I wanted to give you a basic overview of this new feature. Its goal is to advise PMM users on common security-related database problems they might have on their databases. In this blog, I’ll show you […]
Feb 11, 2020 |
Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
We recently released Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) version 2.2 and as part of this release, we made it available on the AWS Marketplace. In this blog post, I’ll explain how to find PMM in the AWS marketplace and how to install it. It is important to note that PMM is presented as an AMI […]
May 29, 2018 |
Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
It’s very easy to install Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) on DigitalOcean. If you’ve never used DigitalOcean before, you will find that it is user-friendly and not very expensive. For $5/month you can easily host your PMM on it, letting you monitor your simple infrastructure or try out PMM before implementing it to monitor your […]