Mar 10, 2025 |
MySQL, Percona Software
Percona is excited to announce the community release of our MySQL 5.7 End-of-Life (EOL) source code for both Percona Server for MySQL (PS) version 5.7.44-52 and Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) version 5.7.44-31.65.5. This release is an accumulation of several customer-only releases we’ve done as part of our post-EOL support for MySQL 5.7, and we’re happy […]
Aug 02, 2024 |
Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
We published a blog a few months back about incorporating telemetry into our core database products. My colleague, Bartek, did a great job highlighting the benefits to both Percona and our users, so I won’t re-list them all here, but we did want to let everyone know that our alpha phase is over (a small […]
Jul 03, 2023 |
Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
With Enterprise Linux 7 nearing its end-of-life date, the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team has done a significant update to the base operating system we build our images on top of. For several years now, PMM has been built on an Enterprise Linux 7 (EL7) base, specifically CentOS 7. Even though it provided a […]
Mar 04, 2022 |
Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
My father always used the expression, “sometimes the juice ain’t worth the squeeze”. What he meant by it was, “what you put into something better be worth what you get out of it”. Why do I bring this up? Well…we’ve got this GREAT feature for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) we’ve been banging away on: […]
Dec 01, 2020 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
When I was in the interview process here at Percona, I was told I’d be leading the team that delivered Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and so naturally, I wanted to know just what that meant. I started researching the product and I got even more excited about this opportunity because as I read, PMM […]
Oct 22, 2020 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
About the Author – This blog was written as a collaboration with my colleague Jiri Ctvrtka. Jiri is a senior software developer from Brno, Czech Republic, and has been partnering with Percona for almost a year working on various components of our Percona Platform. He’s been programming in Go since 2015 and Jiri’s got a […]
Jul 22, 2020 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
The Security Threat Tool has been available since Percona Monitoring and Management 2.6.0 (PMM) and starting from that first release it is proving to be a severely-needed feature. If you’re not familiar with the Security Threat Tool (STT), it helps you to ensure compliance as you have the ability to run checks daily, get alerts […]
Jul 07, 2020 |
Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Many years ago I was banned from touching anything of critical importance as far as production infrastructure goes…something about “the leadership curse”, so the multiple layers of monitoring and notifications I once wrestled with were now overkill for my needs. What that means is that even though Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) now integrates with […]
Apr 07, 2020 |
Monitoring, Percona Software
Last month, our new Director of Product wrote a blog about all the cool things she learned about how we track Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) adoption and even went into what conclusions we can draw from that. As you can imagine, I was excited she geeked out on what little data we gather just […]
Feb 21, 2020 |
Monitoring, Percona Software
One of the requests we get most often on the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team is “Do you support alerting?” The answer to that question has always been “Yes” but the feedback on how we offered it natively was that it was, well, not robust enough! We’ve been hard at work to change that […]