by Akira Kurogane | Jun 7, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) has provided a ‘hot’ backup of its underlying data db directory files using WiredTiger library methods since v3.4. When you use the { createBackup: … } command it will copy them to whichever other filesystem...
by Vinicius Grippa | Jun 3, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source
by Jean da Silva | Jun 2, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
One of the main topics we have today is surely about security. On a daily routine, this can pass unnoticed, but sooner or later, we have to implement or work on some security guidelines. And today, we are going to discuss one of them, which is Field Encryption. ...
by David Quilty | May 27, 2021 | MongoDB, Webinars
Do You Know How to Choose the Right MongoDB Shard Key for Your Business? In our upcoming panel, Percona MongoDB experts Mike Grayson, Kimberly Wilkins, and Vinicius Grippa will discuss the complex issue of MongoDB shard key selection and offer advice on the measures...
by Corrado Pandiani | May 24, 2021 | Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
It’s your busiest day of the year and the website has crawled to a halt and finally crashed… and it was all because you did not understand how MongoDB uses memory and left your system open to cluster instability, poor performance, and unpredictable...
by Denys Kondratenko | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a managed database that doesn’t need to be installed and maintained but is instead provided as a service to the user. The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) DBaaS component allows users to CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)...
by Rafael Galinari | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This is a very straightforward article written with the intention to show you how easy it is to refresh your Test/Dev environments with PROD data, using Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM). This article will cover all the steps from the PBM configuration until the...
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Our recent releases of Percona Operator for MySQL based on Percona XtraDB Cluster 1.8 and Percona Operator for MongoDB 1.7 come with a new interesting feature: Support of custom sidecars. What is special about this? There is often a need to customize the default...
by Akira Kurogane | May 18, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Storage Engine
by Akira Kurogane | May 18, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Storage Engine
Most of the files in a data directory of a MongoDB server are made by the WiredTiger storage engine. If you want to look at the content inside them you can use the tool “wt” from the WiredTiger library: https://github.com/wiredtiger/wiredtiger/...
by Akira Kurogane | May 13, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) has reached a new step with the release of version 1.5.0 today, May 13th, 2021. Azure Blob Storage Support Now you can use Azure Blob Storage as well as S3-compatible object stores. Configuration example: storage: type: azure...
by Sergey Pronin | May 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Running MongoDB in Kubernetes with Percona Operator is not only simple but also by design provides a highly available MongoDB cluster suitable for mission-critical applications. In the latest 1.8.0 version, we add a feature that implements Point-in-time recovery...
by Michael Patrick | Apr 9, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Recently, I needed to set up a Proof of Concept (POC) and wanted to do it on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). After documenting the process, it seemed it might be helpful for others looking for the most basic guide possible to get a Mongo server up and running on GCP. ...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 7, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Kubernetes Operators allow users to simplify deployment and management of MongoDB and MySQL databases on Kubernetes. Both operators allow users to store backups on S3-compatible storage and leverage Percona XtraBackup and Percona Backup for MongoDB to deliver...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Mar 30, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 22, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
More and more companies are adopting GitOps as the way of implementing Continuous Deployment. Its elegant approach built upon a well-known tool wins the hearts of engineers. But even if your git repository is private, it’s strongly discouraged to store keys and...
by David Quilty | Mar 11, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Webinars
Join Percona Technical Expert Corrado Pandiani as he presents a quick yet robust comparison of the different backup solutions that can be used with MongoDB. This webinar will highlight: – Terminology – Elements of MongoDB Backups – Backup &...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
by Daniil Bazhenov | Mar 9, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
We are so grateful to all users of our software. Thanks to you, some of them have just been recognized as a Winter 2021 category leader by SourceForge! Percona Monitoring And Management is the leader in the Database Monitoring Tools category Percona Server for MongoDB...
by Mukesh Kumar | Feb 15, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
MongoDB is one of the most admired and effortless NoSQL databases to set up. Developers want to spend time building the features for their application, and with MongoDB, developers can build the application quickly while utilizing well-supported infrastructure and...
