by Anil Joshi | Dec 19, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Setting up Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) alerts for multiple channels can significantly enhance your monitoring strategy. In this blog post, we will talk about the steps to configure alerts for some well-known communication platforms like Telegram, Slack,...
by Peter Sylvester | Aug 8, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
As businesses grow and develop, the requirements that they have for their data platform grow along with it. As such, one of the more common questions I get from my clients is whether or not their system will be able to endure an anticipated load increase. Or worse...
by Yves Trudeau | Aug 4, 2023 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona has bundled together some great open source pieces of software to create Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), a very flexible and powerful monitoring solution. The goal of this post is not to introduce you to the existing PMM dashboards but to show you how...
by Brijesh Chauhan | Aug 2, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
Restoring a MySQL database backup is a crucial task that can sometimes be time-consuming, especially for large databases. Monitoring the progress of the restore process is essential to estimate completion time and ensure everything is proceeding smoothly. In this blog...
by Steve Hoffman | Jul 3, 2023 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
With Enterprise Linux 7 nearing its end-of-life date, the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team has done a significant update to the base operating system we build our images on top of. For several years now, PMM has been built on an Enterprise Linux 7 (EL7)...
by Agustín | Jun 9, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, PostgreSQL
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) boasts many functionalities that support its extension, be it by using Custom Queries, Custom Scripts, or by collecting data from already available External Exporters. In this short blog post, we will see how to quickly (and...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 10, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
I have seen many Linux Performance engineers looking at the “IOWait” portion of CPU usage as something to indicate whenever the system is I/O-bound. In this blog post, I will explain why this approach is unreliable and what better indicators you can use. Let’s start...
by Roma Novikov | May 8, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
We are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.37, which includes a revamped Inventory view, new experimental dashboards for Kubernetes monitoring, as well as many other improvements and new features. See the full list of changes...
by Agustín | Apr 6, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
In this blog post, we’ll check how to integrate Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) with Loki to be able to get not only metrics and queries from our database servers but also text-based information like logs. Loki is a log aggregation tool developed by...
by Duygu Aksoy | Feb 24, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Why you might need granular Access Controls As companies grow from startups to larger organizations, they establish a hierarchical structure of roles and responsibilities that changes year to year. As a result, it becomes increasingly important to protect the...
by Duygu Aksoy | Feb 24, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Today, we are excited to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) V2.35, including a tech preview of label-based access control, the general availability of Helm Chart, and a range of enhancements to our Database as a Service (DBaaS) offerings,...
by Duygu Aksoy | Sep 28, 2022 | Monitoring, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Autumn brought new cool features and improvements to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) in V2.31. Enhanced user experience with the updated main menu, Alerting, and better PostgreSQL autovacuum observability with the new Vacuum dashboard are the major themes that...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Sep 14, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
The all-new Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Home dashboard is the answer to some of the main concerns of our users: A clear entry point (where do I start?) Context (is everything okay?) How did we achieve this? By coming up with a redesign of the Home...
by Duygu Aksoy | Sep 2, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this v2.30 release, we have focused on improving Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for usability, refining the dashboards (effortless root cause analysis), Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality, and seamless onboarding to align with your needs. Your...
by Alexander Demidoff | Jul 7, 2022 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
We highly value security here at Percona, and in this blog post, we will show how to protect your Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server with an SSL certificate and automate its lifecycle by leveraging a proxy server. Introduction As you may know, PMM Server...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 22, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Over the course of the years, we see the growing interest in running databases and stateful workloads in Kubernetes. With Container Storage Interfaces (CSI) maturing and more and more Operators appearing, running stateful workloads in your favorite platform is not...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 8, 2022 | Monitoring, Percona Software
Just the other day, one of my Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instances failed to update and ended up in a funny state: No matter how many times I clicked the “check for updates” button in the lower right, PMM still showed “no updates available”....
by Ivan Groenewold | Feb 16, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
by Pep Pla | Dec 30, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM2) is the database monitoring suite assembled and developed by Percona. It is based on standard open source components and custom-made software integrations. PMM2 helps you reduce complexity, optimize performance, and improve...
by Agustín | Oct 6, 2021 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In this short blog post, we are going to review how to avoid using credentials in the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) client command line when adding new exporters. We will use an example with the MySQL exporter, but it is extensible to others (PostgreSQL,...
