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...
by Jon Tobin | Dec 16, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
In this blog is an in-depth discussion of MongoDB PIT backups. Note: INTIMIDATION FREE ZONE!! This post is meant to give the reader most of the knowledge that is needed to understand the material. This includes basic MongoDB knowledge and other core concepts. I have...
by Dave Avery | Dec 16, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Live
We are excited to announce that the sneak peek schedule for the Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference is up! The Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017 is April 24th – 27th, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara Convention...
by Rick Golba | Dec 14, 2016 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, MySQL
In this blog post, we’ll discuss the differences between row store and column store databases. Clients often ask us if they should or could be using columnar databases. For some applications, a columnar database is a great choice; for others, you should stick...
by Dave Avery | Dec 13, 2016 | MongoDB, Webinars
Please join Percona Senior Technical Operations Architect Tim Vaillancourt on Wednesday December 14, at 10:00 am PST/ 1:00pm EST (UTC-8) as he presents MongoDB System Tuning Best Practices. People give much love to optimizing document design, provisioning, and even...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Dec 13, 2016 | MongoDB
This blog discusses MongoDB 3.4 GA facet aggregation features and the SERVER-27395 mongod crash bug. As you may have heard, in late November MongoDB 3.4 GA was released. One feature that stuck out for me, a Lucene enthusiast, was the addition of powerful grouping and...
by Roman Vynar | Dec 12, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.7. The Percona Monitoring and Management Server (PMM) is distributed through Docker Hub, PMM Client – through tarball or system packages. The instructions for installing or upgrading PMM are...
by Roman Vynar | Dec 9, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.7. Changelog New Nagios script pmp-check-mongo.py for MongoDB. Added MySQL socket and flag options to Cacti PHP script. Added disk volume check on “Mounted on” in addition to...
by Tim Vaillancourt | Dec 8, 2016 | MongoDB
In a previous blog post: “Tuning Linux for MongoDB,” I covered several tunings for an efficient MongoDB deployment on Linux in Production. This post expands on that one. While I felt the tuning Linux for MongoDB was a very useful blog post that results in...
by Adamo Tonete | Dec 7, 2016 | MongoDB
by Alexey Zhebel | Dec 7, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.11-3.1 on December 7, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.2.11-3.1 is an enhanced, open-source, fully compatible,...
by Kortney Runyan | Dec 5, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Live
We are excited to announce that the tutorial schedule for the Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference is up! The Percona Live 2017 Open Source Database Conference 2017 is April 24th – 27th, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara & The Santa Clara...
by Alexey Zhebel | Nov 28, 2016 | MongoDB, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.14-1.9 on November 28, 2016. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or the Percona Software Repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB 3.0.14-1.9 is an enhanced, open source, fully...
