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December 22, 2023
What’s New in Percona Toolkit 3.5.6
Percona Toolkit 3.5.6 was released on December 21, 2023. This blog post covers the main changes in this release. New [...]
December 21, 2023
Percona Monitoring and Management High Availability – A Proof of Concept
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a state-of-the-art piece of software that exists in part thanks to great open source [...]
December 20, 2023
Using Huge Pages with PostgreSQL Running Inside Kubernetes
Huge pages make PostgreSQL faster; can we implement it in Kubernetes? Modern servers operate with terabytes of RAM, and by [...]
December 19, 2023
Using the Transparent Data Encryption Extension PG_TDE With PostgreSQL
PG_TDE (PostgreSQL Transparent Data Encryption) is an experimental transparent data encryption access method for PostgreSQL 16, available on GitHub as [...]
December 19, 2023
Setting Up Percona Monitoring and Management Alerts for External Channels (Telegram, Slack, WebHook)
Setting up Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) alerts for multiple channels can significantly enhance your monitoring strategy. In this blog [...]
December 18, 2023
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.10, and More: Release Roundup December 18, 2023
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably [...]
December 12, 2023
How to Use Percona Toolkit’s pt-table-sync for Replica Tables With Triggers in MySQL
In Percona Managed Services, we manage Percona for MySQL, Community MySQL, and MariaDB. Sometimes, the replica server might have replication [...]
December 8, 2023
Keepalived for Source Failover: Percona XtraDB Cluster to Percona Server for MySQL
In this article, we will demonstrate how to achieve asynchronous replication automatic source failover when our replica is a Percona [...]
December 7, 2023
Backup Mastery: Running Percona XtraBackup in Docker Containers
Ensuring the security and resilience of your data hinges on having a robust backup strategy, and Percona XtraBackup (PXB), our [...]
December 7, 2023
How to Filter or Customize Alert Notifications in Percona Monitoring and Management (Subject and Body)
In many scenarios, the standard alert notification template in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), while comprehensive, may not align perfectly [...]
December 6, 2023
PMM Dump: A New Tool to Support Percona Customers
In this post, I will present a new Percona tool: PMM Dump. The PMM Dump performs a logical backup of [...]
December 4, 2023
Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1, Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.1.0: Release Roundup December 4, 2023
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably [...]
November 20, 2023
Introducing Percona’s API for Faster Snapshot-Based Backup and Restore for Your MongoDB Environments
Although the introduction of physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) made it possible to significantly cut the restore [...]
November 13, 2023
Innovation Release of Percona XtraBackup, Updated Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Release Roundup November 13, 2023
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably [...]
November 9, 2023
PostgreSQL Checkpoints, Buffers, and WAL Usage with Percona Monitoring and Management
In this blog post, we will discuss how to extend Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to get PostgreSQL metrics on [...]
November 8, 2023
Percona XtraBackup 8.0.34 Removes the Server Version Check
With the release of Percona XtraBackup 8.0.34-39, Percona XtraBackup (PXB) allows a backup on server version 8.0.35 and higher. We [...]
November 6, 2023
Percona Operators Custom Resource Monitoring With Kube-state-metrics
There are more than 300 Operators in operatorhub, and the number is growing. Percona Operators allow users to easily manage [...]
November 2, 2023
Top 3 Questions From Percona k8s Squad Ask-Me-Anything Session
On October 24th, the Percona Kubernetes Squad held the first Ask-me-Anything (AMA) session to address inquiries regarding the utilization of [...]
November 1, 2023
Percona Operators Deployment Explained: Delving Into Cluster-Wide vs. Namespace-Scoped
Namespaces in Kubernetes provide a way to isolate groups of resources within a single cluster. They are useful in multi-tenant environments [...]
November 1, 2023
Is ANALYZE TABLE Safe on a Busy MySQL Database Server?
Sometimes, there is a need to update the table and index statistics manually using the ANALYZE TABLE command. Without going [...]