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July 22, 2020
Percona Audit Log Plugin and the Percona Monitoring and Management Security Threat Tool
The Security Threat Tool has been available since Percona Monitoring and Management 2.6.0 (PMM) and starting from that first release [...]
July 21, 2020
Updates to Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster
On July 21, 2020, Percona delivered an updated version of our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) focused [...]
July 21, 2020
New MySQL 8.0.21 and Percona XtraBackup 8.0.13 Issues
On Monday, July 13, 2020, Oracle released MySQL 8.0.21. This release contained a few new changes that cause issues with [...]
July 20, 2020
Backing Up Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster Databases to Google Cloud Storage
The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster can send backups to Amazon S3 or S3-compatible storage. And every now [...]
July 20, 2020
Backup and Restore of MongoDB Deployment on Kubernetes
Every database environment should require a robust backup strategy as its a fundamental requirement to running a successful and robust [...]
July 20, 2020
Rework of QAN for Percona Monitoring and Management, Update to Percona Distribution for MongoDB: Release Roundup July 20, 2020
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help [...]
July 16, 2020
Improvements to Query Analytics (QAN) Component of Percona Monitoring and Management
We’ve been improving the Query Analytics component of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Here’s a summary of what we’ve done, [...]
July 16, 2020
Percona Monitoring Plugins End of Life Notification
Effective August 1, 2020, Percona is moving the Percona Monitoring Plugins to end of life status. This means that no [...]
July 15, 2020
MySQL Query Performance Troubleshooting: Resource-Based Approach
When I speak about MySQL performance troubleshooting (or frankly any other database), I tend to speak about four primary resources [...]
July 9, 2020
Scaling the Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster
You got yourself a Kubernetes cluster and are now testing our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster. Everything is [...]
July 7, 2020
Enable Email Sending in Percona Monitoring and Management 2
Many years ago I was banned from touching anything of critical importance as far as production infrastructure goes…something about “the [...]
July 6, 2020
Adding eBPF-Based Metrics to Percona Monitoring and Management
I wanted to start this post with the words “eBPF is the hot new thing”, but I think it’s already [...]
July 6, 2020
New Percona Distribution for MySQL, Improvements to Percona Monitoring and Management: Release Roundup July 6, 2020
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help [...]
July 3, 2020
ProxySQL Behavior in the Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster
The Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster(PXC) comes with ProxySQL as part of the deal. And to be honest, [...]
July 1, 2020
Webinar July 14: How Percona Monitoring and Management Improves Database Security
Data breaches seem to be a daily occurrence, so much so that seeing an article about the latest company to [...]
July 1, 2020
Achieving Consistent Read and High Availability with Percona XtraDB Cluster 8.0
In real life, there are frequent cases where getting a running application to work correctly is strongly dependent on consistent [...]
June 29, 2020
Percona Server for MySQL Highlights – Extended Slow Query Logging
Last year, I made the first post in a small series, which aimed to highlight unique features of Percona Server [...]
June 29, 2020
Security Threat Tool Design in Percona Monitoring and Management
Security Threat Tool (STT) is the new Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) feature. It provides the ability to run automated [...]
June 29, 2020
Are You The Next Great Percona TAM?
In 2006, a small company formed, specializing in MySQL database consulting at a time when very few companies had fully [...]
June 25, 2020
MongoDB Checkpointing Woes
In my recent post Evaluating MongoDB Under Python TPCC 1000W Workload with MongoDB benchmarks, I showed an average throughput for [...]