Percona Monitoring and Management 2.4.0 (PMM), released several days ago, added support for custom extensions of the Prometheus configuration file. Before explaining what that is and how to use it, let me tell you a bit of history.
PMM 1.4.0, released 2.5 years ago, added support for hooking external Prometheus exporters into PMM’s Prometheus configuration […]
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My boss asked me if there is a way to wait for the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server container to be fully ready so his automation script can start adding monitoring instances. I wanted to give him a general solution, not a PMM-specific one. Turned out, it is not so simple.
The root of […]
This blog post is about how you can gain detailed information in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM2) of PostgreSQL disk usage. We take a look at using a catalog called pg_class, which catalogs tables and most everything else that has columns or is otherwise similar to a table. This includes indexes, sequences, views, materialized views, […]
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There are a lot of things I love about Prometheus; its data model is fantastic for monitoring applications and PromQL language is often more expressive than SQL for data retrieval needs you have in the observability space. One thing, though, I hate about Prometheus with a deep passion is the behavior of its rate() […]
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