This week we release Percona Monitoring and Management 2.16 (PMM), which brings some exciting new additions we’d like to highlight!
Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Monitoring
AWS monitoring in PMM now covers PostgreSQL RDS and PostgreSQL Aurora types. PMM will include them in a Discovery UI where they can be added which will result in node-related metrics as well as PostgreSQL database performance metrics. Before this release, this was available only to MySQL-related instances from Amazon RDS.
Security Threat Tool Scheduling
Security Threat Tool users are now able to control the Security Check execution time intervals for groups of checks, move checks between groups, and disable individual checks if necessary, allowing for an even more configurable experience for users.
Microsoft Azure Discovery and Node Metrics Extraction
Percona Monitoring and Management now monitors Azure instances and can collect Azure DB metrics as well as available System metrics. (Please note that only basic metrics are provided by Azure Portal.)
This means that as of today our Technical Preview has PMM providing the same level of support for Microsoft Azure Database as a Service (DBaaS) as we have for AWS’s DBaaS (RDS/Aurora on MySQL or PostgreSQL). Users are able to easily discover and add Azure databases for monitoring by PMM complete with node-level monitoring. This feature is available only if you explicitly activate it on the PMM Settings page. Deactivating it will not remove added services from monitoring, but will just hide the ability to discover and add new Microsoft Azure Services. Read more about Microsoft Azure monitoring within Percona Monitoring and Management.
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Improvements to Integrated Alerting within PMM
The PMM 2.16 release also brings numerous improvements to the Technical Preview of Integrated Alerting within Percona Monitoring and Management. You can read more on the design and implementation details of this work at that link.
Additional PMM 2.16 release highlights include…
Support for pg_stat_monitor v0.8
Technical Preview: Added compatibility with pg_stat_monitor plugin v 0.8.0. This is not exposing the new features for the plugin in PMM yet but ensures Query Analytics metrics are collected to the same degree it was with version 0.6.0 of the plugin.
[DBaaS] Resource planning and prediction (Resource calculator)
The Preview of DBaaS in PMM: While creating a DB cluster a user can see a prediction of the resources this cluster will consume with all components as well as the current total and available resources in the Kubernetes cluster. Users will be warned that if they attempt to create a DB cluster; it may be unsuccessful because of available resources in the Kubernetes cluster.
[DBaaS] Percona Server for MongoDB 1.7.0 Operator Support
The Preview of DBaaS in PMM will be using the recently-released Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB 1.7.0 to create MongoDB clusters.
Conclusion
The release of PMM 2.16 includes many impressive enhancements AND brand new features for our user base. We hope as always that you will continue to let us know your thoughts on these new PMM v2 features as well as any ideas you have for improvement!
Download and try Percona Monitoring and Management today! Read the PMM 2.16 full release notes.
About the Author
Diana MuinaDiana is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Percona with a background in UX design and product strategy among different SaaS industries.
