by Roma Novikov | Aug 24, 2023 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
Welcome to our guide on keeping your Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server and Client up-to-date. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through a method to ensure your PMM solution runs the latest and most secure versions. It’s important to note that...
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 Taras Onishchuk | Jul 19, 2023 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
When adding a remote MySQL instance to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), there are a few options you can specify during the setup, but they are not editable once added. For example, a table statistics limit is introduced to avoid querying...
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 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 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 Fernando Laudares Camargos | Apr 14, 2023 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
A shared characteristic in most (if not all) databases, be them traditional relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL or some kind of NoSQL-style database like MongoDB, is the use of a caching mechanism to keep (a copy of) part of the data in memory. The...
by Mario García | Mar 22, 2023 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
One of the installation methods we support for our database software is through Helm. We have a collection of Helm charts, in this repository, for the following Percona software: Percona Operator for MySQL Percona XtraDB Cluster Percona Operator for MongoDB Percona...
by Puneet Kala | Mar 17, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). We’ve added and improved many features, including Alerting and Backup Management. These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as...
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 Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 14, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Recently, we released Percona Monitoring and Management 2.34 (PMM) which includes upgrades for backup and Database as a Service (DBaaS) features, and we are seeking ways to simplify PMM deployment. Previously I wrote about our Terraform provider to deploy Percona...
by Sergey Pronin | Jan 17, 2023 | Percona Platform, Percona Software, Security
by Duygu Aksoy | Dec 19, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
We are excited to announce the latest release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – V2.33. This release includes several new features and improvements that make PMM even more effective and user-friendly. Some of the key highlights of PMM V2.33 include:...
by Peter Sylvester | Nov 29, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Earlier in the year, I was working on an issue where one of my clients had reported a massive influx in connection on their hosts after enabling Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). This was something I had not seen before and after researching for a couple of...
by Duygu Aksoy | Nov 15, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Backup Management for MongoDB and other improvements in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v.2.32 that has been released in November 2022. Details are in this blog and also in the PMM 2.32 Release Notes....
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 Peter Zaitsev | Sep 8, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In my previous blog post, ProcFS UDF: A Different Approach to Agentless Operating System Observability in Your Database, I wrote about the ProcFS UDF MySQL plugin, which allows you to get operating systems stats, through the MySQL database, without having shell access...
by Sergey Pronin | Sep 6, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) comes with Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality that allows you to deploy highly-available databases through a simple user interface and API. PMM DBaaS is sort of unique for various reasons: It is fully open source and...
