Featured

MySQL 5.7
Support

Percona Server for MySQL
Learn More

Compare Percona to Leading Database Solutions

Start

Percona Products

Percona Services

Use Cases

Percona Resources

Software
Downloads

All of Percona’s open source software products, in one place, to download as much or as little as you need.

View Downloads

Valkey Contribution

Learn More

Product Documentation

View Documentation

Resource Hub

A single source for all resources

Webinars

Presentations

Datasheets

Ebooks

Downloads

Solution Briefs

Case Studies

Percona Videos

White Papers

Documentation

View All Resources

Why Percona for MongoDB?

Learn More

Why Percona for PostgreSQL?

Learn More

Percona Blog

Percona Blog

Our popular knowledge center for all Percona products and all related topics.

View The Blog

Community

Percona Community Hub

A place to stay in touch with the open-source community

Forums

Community Blog

PMM Contributions

Explore The Community

Events

Percona Events Hub

See all of Percona’s upcoming events and view materials like webinars and forums from past events

Percona.connect events

Upcoming Events

View Our Events

About

About Percona

Percona is an open source database software, support, and services company that helps make databases and applications run better.

Learn More

Percona in the News

See Percona’s recent news coverage, press releases and industry recognition for our open source software and support.

News coverage
Press Releases

Our Customers

Learn More

Our Partners

Learn More

Careers

Learn More

Contact Us

Let's Talk
Sergei Glushchenko
Sergei joined Percona development team in 2012. Prior to joining Percona he worked as software developer for Linux platform. Sergei's hometown is in Siberia, but currently he lives in Bangkok, Thailand. He likes to travel and to explore.

Database auditing alternatives for MySQL

May 20, 2014 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Security

Database auditing is the monitoring of selected actions of database users. It doesn’t protect the database in case privileges are set incorrectly, but it can help the administrator detect mistakes. Audits are needed for security. You can track data access and be alerted to suspicious activity. Audits are required for data integrity. They are the […]

Introduction to the Percona Server Audit Log feature

May 16, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Software

Percona has developed an Audit Log feature that is now included in Percona Server since the recent 5.5 and 5.6 releases. This implementation is alternative to the MySQL Enterprise Audit Log Plugin: Percona re-implemented the Audit Plugin code as GPL as Oracle’s code was closed source. This post is a quick introduction to this plugin. […]