by Jaime Sicam | Apr 21, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Security
Since the release of Percona Server MongoDB 3.6.13 (PSMDB), you have been able to use Vault to store the encryption keys for data at rest encryption. Here’s how to set it up. First, you need to have a Vault server up and running. My colleague, Jericho, has an...
by Akira Kurogane | Apr 20, 2020 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
“Get big fast” was a mantra in the second eCommerce boom. MongoDB’s success during its startup years was due in large part to being the best database to support that. But maybe, after your growth years, the data’s rent bill has become a little...
by Lalit Choudhary | Apr 17, 2020 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona provides the mongodb_exporter for monitoring MongoDB. It can feed a Prometheus time-series database by exporting sharding, replication, and storage engine metrics. So basically, it’s the way we monitor MongoDB through Percona Monitoring and Management....
by Vadim Tkachenko | Apr 3, 2020 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
We recently released an experimental version of percona-dbaas command-line tool with the goal of significantly simplifying the deployment of database instances in Kubernetes. We have Kubernetes Operators for Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Server for MongoDB, which...
by Tyler Duzan | Mar 18, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona has been investing in building and releasing Operators for Kubernetes to run traditional databases in a cloud-native fashion. The first two Kubernetes operators were for Percona Server for MongoDB and Percona XtraDB Cluster, chosen because they both feature...
by David Quilty | Feb 7, 2020 | Insight for Developers, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Webinars
Most applications use databases, yet many fail to follow even the most basic best practices, resulting in poor performance, downtime, and security incidents. In this presentation, we will look into the foundational best practices you as a Developer should know about...
by Rick Golba | Jan 29, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software
As noted on our Software and Platform Lifecycle page, Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 reached end of life on January 31, 2020. According to the Percona Services Lifecycle Policy, customers with an active support contract with Percona will continue receiving support;...
by Andrew Pogrebnoi | Jan 14, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Prior to version 1.0, Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) had a separate coordinator daemon as a key part of its architecture. The coordinator was handling all communications with backup agents and the control program. It held a PBM configuration and backups list, made a...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Jan 9, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software
In Linux distributions, installing MongoDB for the first time using rpm/dpkg will create a conf file, dbPath, logPath and the init scripts on default paths. This includes the creation of a mongod user/group and provides mongod permissions to both the default dbPath...
by David Quilty | Jan 7, 2020 | MongoDB, Webinars
This webinar will walk you through the performance improvements for the MongoDB 4.0 and 4.2 versions: – No more blocking secondary reads for the replica set. – Improved Index builds with foreground but non-blocking behavior! – Wild card index for the...
by David Quilty | Jan 5, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Rick Vasquez, Chief of Staff to the CXO, for an engaging webinar on MongoDB Atlas vs Managed Community Edition! In this webinar, we discuss at length the implications that MongoDB’s decision to change licensing from AGPL to SSPL had on the broader landscape...
by Akira Kurogane | Dec 20, 2019 | MongoDB
Recently I noticed the site Jan 2019 results download link) are a subset of the mongo javascript shell five dbaas_*.yml test suites used are sensible-for-DBAAS subsets of the same aggregation, decimal, and competition-comparison page at mongodb.com. But the scripts...
by Corrado Pandiani | Dec 17, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
We recently released Percona Backup for MongoDB(PBM) as GA. It’s our open source tool for taking a consistent backup of a running standalone mongod instance, a Replica Set, or a Sharded Cluster as well. The following articles can give you an overview of the...
by Akira Kurogane | Nov 15, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
TLDR: It is not profile level 1 that is the problem; it’s a gotcha with the optional ‘slowms’ argument that causes users to accidentally set verbose logging and fill their disk with log files. In MongoDB, there are two ways to see, with individual...
by Adamo Tonete | Oct 28, 2019 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Hi everyone! This is one of the most requested subjects to our support team and I’d like to share the steps as a tutorial blog post. Today, we will set up internal authentication using x.509 certificates as well as enabling TSL/SSL. If using authentication in...
by Borys Belinsky | Oct 10, 2019 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.14-3.4 on October 10, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona website or the Percona software repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable database...
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Oct 9, 2019 | Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring your database performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL®,...
by Rachel Pescador | Sep 30, 2019 | Database Trends, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB v1 is the first GA version of our new MongoDB backup tool. This has been custom-built to assist those users who don’t want to pay for MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager but do want a fully-supported community backup tool that can perform...
by Borys Belinsky | Sep 23, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona is happy to announce the GA release of our latest software product Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.0.0 on September 23, 2019. Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets....
by Dmitriy Kostiuk | Sep 20, 2019 | MongoDB, Percona Software
We are glad to announce the 1.2.0 release of the Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB. The Operator simplifies the deployment and management of the Percona Server for MongoDB in Kubernetes-based environments. It extends the Kubernetes API with a...
