by David Quilty | Feb 2, 2024 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
As a DBA or database architect, you’re well-acquainted with the offerings of MongoDB Community Edition, MongoDB Enterprise, and MongoDB Atlas. Maybe you’re even thinking of jumping ship from your current database over to MongoDB – adventurous, aren’t...
by Corrado Pandiani | Dec 22, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
by Andrew Pogrebnoi | Nov 20, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Although the introduction of physical backups in Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) made it possible to significantly cut the restore time for big datasets, it’s hard to beat snapshots in speed and efficiency. That’s why we introduced external backups (aka...
by David Quilty | Nov 2, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Ready to supercharge your MongoDB experience? MongoDB is a dynamic database system continually evolving to deliver optimized performance, robust security, and limitless scalability. Upgrading to the newest release of MongoDB is the key to unlocking its full potential,...
by Sergey Pronin | Oct 18, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
We are excited to announce the release of Percona Operator for MongoDB v.1.15.0. This release consists of various enhancements and bug fixes. In this blog post, we will look into some of the most interesting features. Reduce Recovery Point Objective (RPO) with...
by Jean da Silva | Oct 17, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Przemysław Malkowski | Oct 12, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Have you ever encountered queries delayed by flow control but found no lagged secondaries? This article shows a possible scenario of why this happens. Replica Sets provide high availability and redundancy to MongoDB clusters. There is always one primary node that can...
by Gautam | Oct 11, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will discuss how we can migrate data from MongoDB Atlas to self-hosted MongoDB. There are a couple of third-party tools in the market to migrate data from Atlas to Pecona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB), like MongoPush, Hummingbird, and MongoShake....
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Oct 10, 2023 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Databases are different from a lot of software. For one, they often favor stability over innovation. This is not a general rule, but as databases are responsible for a core layer of any IT system – data storage and processing — they require reliability. This...
by Mukesh Kumar | Sep 28, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
In this blog post, we will discuss replacing a Mongo node. Consider a scenario when a node is going to be decommissioned for some reason or if a node’s data partition is almost full and not extendable. To avoid the disk getting full or decommissioned, we need to...
by Vinicius Grippa | Aug 1, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
This blog was originally published on August 10, 2020, and was updated on August 1, 2023. “I think most of the time hackers behind the attacks do it just for fun, because they can and because it’s very simple”, — says Diachenko. Source: “Meowing” attack...
by Zelmar Michelini | Jul 26, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Jul 24, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
In the previous minor release, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.1.0 (PBM) introduced a GA version of incremental physical backups, which can greatly impact both the recovery time and the cost of backup (considering storage and data transfer cost). Back then, we already...
by Vinicius Grippa | Jul 10, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a backup utility developed by Percona to address the needs of customers and users who prefer open source tools over proprietary software like MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager. PBM offers comprehensive support and ensures...
by Gautam | Jun 29, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
by Michael Okoko | Jun 27, 2023 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Alerting was introduced in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.31, and it brought a range of custom alerting templates that makes it easier to create Alert rules to monitor your databases. In this article, we will go over how to set up Alerting in PMM...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | May 15, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Enjoy it while it lasts, as everything has its end. It sounded a bit more cryptic than it was planned, but I hope that it gets the attention it needs, as it’s important to know that MongoDB 4.2 in April has reached its End of Life (EOL), and more versions are soon...
by Michal Nosek | May 9, 2023 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Many MongoDB clusters use storage-level snapshots to provide fast and reliable backups. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to restore such a snapshot from a traditional VM-based sharded MongoDB cluster to a freshly deployed Percona Operator for MongoDB cluster on...
by Jan Wieremjewicz | Apr 28, 2023 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Did you notice that Percona Server for MongoDB 6.0.5-4 was released just a few days ago? This time around, it introduced improvements to the way we handle master key rotation for data at rest encryption as well as AWS IAM integration. One key to rule them all —...
by Andrew Pogrebnoi | Apr 26, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
When you do a database restore, you want to have it done as soon as possible. In the case of disaster recovery, the situation is stressful enough on its own. And the database is unusable until the restore is done. So every minute matters. That becomes especially...
