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...
by Vinicius Grippa | Apr 17, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
In this blog post, we will discuss the best practices on the MongoDB ecosystem applied at the Operating System (OS) and MongoDB levels. We’ll also go over some best practices for MongoDB security as well as MongoDB data modeling. The main objective of this post is to...
by Kimberly Wilkins | Apr 13, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
MongoDB v4.2 was released in August 2019. And like previous versions, there is a time to go — and that End of Life (EOL) date approaches. MongoDB v4.2 EOL is set for April 30, 2023. Since Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) is a fully compatible replacement for the...
by Santo Leto | Apr 10, 2023 | MongoDB, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is an open source, distributed, and low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets. With PBM v2.0.0, the ability to take physical backups, in addition to logical ones, has been made Generally...
by Ivan Groenewold | Apr 3, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Pete Scott | Mar 30, 2023 | Insight for DBAs
The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. This comprehensive...
