by Tim Vaillancourt | Feb 22, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In mid-2016, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) added support for RocksDB with MongoDB, also known as “MongoRocks.” In this blog, we will go over the Percona...
by Barrett Chambers | Feb 21, 2017 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. The purpose of this blog post is to demonstrate current best-practices for an in-place Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) upgrade. Following this method allows you to...
by David Murphy | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog post is the first in a series on our Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. This release includes Percona Server for MongoDB, Percona Monitoring and Management, and Percona Toolkit. In this post, we’ll look at the features included in the...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 3.0.1 on February 20, 2017. This is the first general availability (GA) release in the 3.0 series with a focus on padding MongoDB tools: pt-mongodb-summary pt-mongodb-query-digest Downloads are available from...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 20, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software, ProxySQL
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.1 on February 20, 2017. This is the first general availability (GA) release in the PMM 1.1 series with a focus on providing alternative deployment options for PMM Server: OVA image for VirtualBox...
by Dave Avery | Feb 16, 2017 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
UPDATE: Sveta Smirnova will be speaking at M17! Her talk is titled Lessons Learned: Troubleshooting Replication. It covers the similarities and differences between MySQL and MariaDB replication, and how to make the correct configuration choices to avoid problems. In...
by Dave Avery | Feb 14, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Live
The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 will once again host crash courses on MySQL and MongoDB. Read below to get an outstanding discount on either the MySQL or MongoDB crash course (or both). The database community constantly tells us how hard it is to...
by Dave Avery | Feb 14, 2017 | Percona Software
Percona today announced a Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 solution bundle of updated products. This release enables any organization to create a robust, secure database environment that can be adapted to changing business requirements. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4,...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 7, 2017 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.1.0 Beta on February 7, 2017. This is the first beta in the PMM 1.1 series with a focus on providing alternative deployment options for PMM Server: OVA image for VirtualBox is available from the...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 6, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4.1-1.1rc on February 6, 2017. It is the first release candidate in the 3.4 series. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. NOTE: Release candidate...
by Alexey Zhebel | Feb 6, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona announces the availability of Percona Toolkit 3.0.0rc-2 with new MongoDB tools on February 6, 2017. This is a release candidate. Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced command-line tools to perform a variety of MySQL and MongoDB server and system tasks...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 27, 2017 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Services, Percona Software, Webinars
This blog post is a summary of the webinar Percona Software News and Roadmap Update – Q1 2017 given by Peter Zaitsev on January 12, 2017. Over the last few months, I’ve had the opportunity to meet and talk with many of Percona’s customers. I love these meetings,...
by Barrett Chambers | Jan 23, 2017 | MySQL
This blog post contains step-by-step instructions for setting up alerting in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) using Grafana. As a Solutions Engineer at Percona, I get to speak with a lot of the early adopters of Percona’s new PMM software. One of the frequent...
by Dave Avery | Jan 12, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Services
We are proud to announce the new Percona online store! Keeping your database environment tuned, optimized and high-performance is key to achieving business goals. If your database goes down, so does your business. Percona experts have a long history of helping...
by Dave Avery | Jan 10, 2017 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev for a webinar on Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 11 am PST/ 2 pm EST (UTC-8) for a discussion on the Percona Software News and Roadmap Update for Q1 2017. In this webinar, Peter will discuss what’s new in Percona open source...
by Jon Tobin | Jan 9, 2017 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source
This blog post is the second in a series covering MongoDB PIT backups. You can find the first part here. Sharding Makes Everything Fun(ner) The first blog post in this series looked at MongoDB backups in a simple single-replica set environment. In this post,...
by Rick Golba | Jan 6, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL
This post discusses archiving MySQL and MongoDB data and determining what, when and how to archive data. Many people store infrequently used data. This data is taking up storage space and might make your database slower than it could be. Archiving data can be a huge...
by David Murphy | Jan 5, 2017 | MongoDB, Security
In this blog post, we’ll look at some of the concerns recently seen around MongoDB ransomware and security issues. Security blogs and magazines have recently been aflutter with the news that a hacker is stealing data from MongoDB instantiations and demanding...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Jan 4, 2017 | MongoDB
In this blog post, we will discuss some of the Sharding improvements in the recent MongoDB 3.4 GA release. Sharding? Let’s go over what MongoDB Sharding “is” at a simplified, high level. The concept of “sharding” exists to allow MongoDB...
by Adamo Tonete | Dec 19, 2016 | MongoDB
In this blog post we’ll look at how to go about securing MongoDB instances. Authentication is one of the most important features of a database, and MongoDB supports it in different ways. Although it allows you to work without any authentication, the best...
