by Liz Warner | Jul 31, 2025 | Monitoring, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
A vulnerability has been discovered in all versions of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). There is no evidence this vulnerability has been exploited in the wild, and no customer data has been exposed. Vulnerability details This vulnerability stems from the way...
by Edith Puclla | May 15, 2025 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
Monitoring your databases is critical, especially in Kubernetes environments where visibility and automation are key. That’s why, in Percona Everest 1.6.0, we introduced a highly requested feature: the ability to automatically deploy Percona Monitoring and Management...
by Alexander Demidoff | Apr 16, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
Evolution is one of the inherent traits of modern software. Many people reach out to product teams daily, asking to add more functionality to the software products they use and love. This is understandable: there will always be ways to make a product better by adding...
by David Quilty | Mar 14, 2025 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Database disasters come with a hefty price tag. According to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting’s 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Report, 41% of enterprises face downtime costs ranging from $1 million to over $5 million per hour of outage. How can...
by Mike Benshoof | Mar 3, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in March 2025. One of the most common support tickets we get at Percona is the infamous “database is running slower” ticket. While this can be caused by a multitude of factors, it is more often than not...
by Yunus Shaikh | Jan 8, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
This article will be helpful if you use the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance and alert notifications, as it is nice to capture the image of the graph when you receive the alert. We will see how to capture and attach the image of the graph when...
by Roma Novikov | Aug 27, 2024 | Monitoring, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’ve received numerous reports about issues occurring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) when updating to the latest version (currently 2.42.0), or updating to any version from an old version (2.37.1 and before) using the update button on the UI. Symptoms...
by Tibor Korocz | Jul 19, 2024 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Valkey
In this blog post, we will show you how to add external exporters to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and monitor various services. Our focus will be on Valkey/Redis, but the principles apply to other technologies as well. PMM uses VictoriaMetrics, which is...
by Roma Novikov | May 21, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Ensuring your monitoring system stays up and running is vital. High availability (HA) minimizes downtime for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) during hardware failures, in times of disaster recovery, or increased usage of the tool. It’s not just about...
by Nurlan Moldomurov | May 8, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has become a valuable tool for database professionals, providing comprehensive insights into database health and performance. A recent update (version 2.41.0) introduced a significant enhancement: the ability to run PMM in high...
by Juan Arruti | Apr 10, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
It’s a common scenario to have a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) server running on Kubernetes and also desire to monitor databases that are running outside the Kubernetes cluster. The Ingress NGINX Controller is one of the most popular choices for...
by Kedar Vaijanapurkar | Apr 2, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in June of 2023 and updated in April of 2024. As a MySQL database administrator, keeping a close eye on the performance of your MySQL server is crucial to ensure optimal database operations. A monitoring tool like Percona Monitoring...
by Anil Joshi | Mar 26, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Since Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.40.0, Grafana uses PostgreSQL instead of SQLite database to store users, dashboards, and other persistent data. This aids in getting some useful information related to [configured alerts] directly via querying from the...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Mar 19, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) overview dashboards were always meant to be a starting point for DBAs to check the overall health of the databases. Current overview dashboards can be a little overwhelming, based on an approach of “full visibility.” Now, we...
by Nurlan Moldomurov | Feb 1, 2024 | Monitoring, Percona Software
The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) currently lacks native support for ENV variables. In this guide, we’ll walk through a straightforward workaround that simplifies the process of using ENV variables in PMM AMI and reapplying...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Dec 21, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a state-of-the-art piece of software that exists in part thanks to great open source projects like VictoriaMetrics, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse. The integration of those projects, plus the years of Percona expertise in the...
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 Anil Joshi | Dec 7, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In many scenarios, the standard alert notification template in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), while comprehensive, may not align perfectly with specific operational needs. This often leads to an excess of details in the notification’s...
by Sveta Smirnova | Dec 6, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this post, I will present a new Percona tool: PMM Dump. The PMM Dump performs a logical backup of the performance metrics collected by the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server and imports them into a different PMM Server instance. PMM Dump allows you to...
by Agustín | Nov 9, 2023 | Monitoring, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
In this blog post, we will discuss how to extend Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to get PostgreSQL metrics on checkpointing activity, internal buffers, and WAL usage. With this data, we’ll be able to better understand and tune our Postgres servers....
