Grafana Labs has released an important security update, and as you’re aware PMM uses Grafana internally. You’re probably curious whether this issue affects you. CVE-2018-19039 “File Exfiltration vulnerability Security fix” covers a recently discovered security flaw that allows any Grafana user with Editor or Admin permissions to have read access to the filesystem, performed with the […]
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Percona Monitoring and Management 1.17.0 (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. You can run Percona Monitoring and Management 1.17.0 in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL® servers to ensure that your data works as […]
Read morePMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL® and MongoDB® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.
While much of the team is working on longer-term projects, […]
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Recently we had a customer that had issues with a filled disk on the server hosting their Docker pmm-server environment. They were not able to access the web UI, or even stop the pmm-server container because they had filled the /var/ mount point.
Setting correct expectations
The best way to avoid these kinds of issues in […]
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 for MySQL® and MongoDB® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.
This release offers two new features for both the MySQL Community and Percona Customers:
MySQL […]
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This is the last post in our series on building an enterprise-grade PostgreSQL set up using open source tools, and we’ll be covering monitoring.
The previous posts in this series discussed aspects such as security, backup strategy, high availability, connection pooling and load balancing, extensions, and detailed logging in PostgreSQL. Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 10 at 10AM EST, […]
Starting with PMM 1.13, PMM uses Prometheus 2 for metrics storage, which tends to be heaviest resource consumer of CPU and RAM. With Prometheus 2 Performance Improvements, PMM can scale to more than 1000 monitored nodes per instance in default configuration. In this blog post we will look into PMM scaling and capacity planning—how […]
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Prometheus 2 time series database (TSDB) is an amazing piece of engineering, offering a dramatic improvement compared to “v2” storage in Prometheus 1 in terms of ingest performance, query performance and resource use efficiency. As we’ve been adopting Prometheus 2 in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), I had a chance to look into the […]
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Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place November 5–7, 2018 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices. Be sure to buy your tickets soon as tickets prices will only head up, not down! Sponsorship opportunities for the […]
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A few months ago I wrote a blog post on How to Capture Per Process Metrics in PMM. Since that time, Nick Cabatoff has made a lot of improvements to Process Exporter and I’ve improved the Grafana Dashboard to match.
I will not go through installation instructions, they are well covered in original blog post. This […]
