by Roma Novikov | Sep 29, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
As Technical Product Manager, I get a lot of user feedback, both positive and negative. In recent months many people have complained about the Home dashboard. It went something like this: “Hey, the Home page is useless! We have several hundred services monitored by a...
by Aleksandra Abramova | Sep 28, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
It’s been a while since Percona started to develop its own software products, but collecting reviews is a new experience for us. We started this activity about a year ago, and the results we got are stunning. Your reviews said more about us than we ever could imagine....
by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 31, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has dashboards that cover a lot of ground, yet PMM Superpowers come from the fact you do not need to stick to dashboards that are included with the product! You also can easily install additional dashboards provided by the...
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Jul 7, 2021 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In the previous posts of this series, I presented how the Percona Support team approaches the analysis and troubleshooting of a MySQL server using a tried-and-tested method supported by specific tools found in the Percona Toolkit: Inspecting MySQL Servers Part 1: The...
by Vadim Yalovets | Jul 6, 2021 | Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM2) Server runs as a Docker container, a Virtual appliance, or as an instance on Amazon or Azure cloud services. Here I’ll show how to move the PMM Server and its data from one type to another. Note, this is only for PMM2 to...
by David Quilty | Jun 3, 2021 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Webinars
Join our expert team for a live demo of the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) platform and witness the power of Percona support! Bring your questions to the table in a live, open forum discussion. Brian Walters, Sr. Director of Solution Engineering, and Iwo...
by Agustín | May 26, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this follow-up blog to Compiling a Percona Monitoring and Management v2 Client in ARM Architecture, we will show what changes are needed to get the latest versions of PMM working on ARM architecture. In this case, we will do it using a Raspberry Pi 3, instead of...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 3, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management has been available for single-click deployment from AWS Marketplace for several years now, and we have hundreds of instances concurrently active and growing rapidly due to unparalleled ease of deployment. Today we’re announcing we are...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 28, 2021 | Monitoring, Percona Software
One way to run Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v2 on Windows is using the Virtual Appliance installation method. It works well but requires you to run extra software to run Virtual Appliances, such as Oracle VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation Player, etc. Or, you...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Apr 27, 2021 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software
We’re leveling up – would you like to join us on Discord? There we chat about databases, open source, and even play together. On May 6th at 11 am EST, the Percona Community is talking about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Our experts are also there to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 22, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
A few years ago, I wrote about how to add information about processes to your Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance as well as some helpful ways you can use this data. Since that time, PMM has released a new major version (PMM v2) and the Process Exporter...
by Artem Gavrilov | Apr 16, 2021 | Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.13 (PMM) introduced the Integrated Alerting feature as a technical preview. It adds a user-friendly way to set up and manage alerts for your databases. You can read more about this feature usage in our announcement blog post, while...
by Vadim Yalovets | Apr 16, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020, according to DB-Engine’s DBMS of the Year award. Also, it’s steadily climbing up in DB-Engines Ranking. The ranking is updated monthly and places database management systems...
by Diana Muina | Apr 16, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
This week we release Percona Monitoring and Management 2.16 (PMM), which brings some exciting new additions we’d like to highlight! Amazon RDS PostgreSQL Monitoring AWS monitoring in PMM now covers PostgreSQL RDS and PostgreSQL Aurora types. PMM will include them in a...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 6, 2021 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
I try to use Open Source when a good solution exists, so for my home firewall, I’m using OPNSense – a very powerful FreeBSD-based firewall appliance with great features along with a powerful GUI. One of the plugins available with OPNSense is node_exporter,...
by David Quilty | Mar 31, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Optimizing MySQL performance and troubleshooting MySQL problems are two of the most critical and challenging tasks for MySQL DBAs. The databases powering applications need to be able to handle changing traffic workloads while remaining responsive and stable in order...
by Vadim Yalovets | Mar 30, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this blog post, I’ll look at how to import custom dashboards into Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.x, and give some tips on how to automate it. The number of dashboards in PMM2 is constantly growing. For example, we recently added a new HAProxy dashboard...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 10, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
by Diana Muina | Mar 2, 2021 | Monitoring, Percona Software
In November of 2020, we announced that in early 2021 Percona was slated to release a version of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v2 that would include all of the critical functionality users of PMM v1 have come to know and love over the years. In our initial...
by Sri Sakthivel | Feb 25, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
MySQL Shell is the advanced MySQL client, which has many excellent features. In this blog, I am going to explain the MySQL shell commands “\show” and “\watch”. Both commands are very useful to monitor the MySQL process. It provides more insights into the foreground...
