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 Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 23, 2022 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
We currently provide multiple ways to install Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server, with the primary way to use a docker: Install Percona Monitoring and Management or Podman: Podman – Percona Monitoring and Management We implemented it this way to...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jul 13, 2022 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, I will demonstrate how to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to find out the reason why the MySQL server is stalling. I will use only one typical situation for the MySQL server stall in this example, but the same dashboards, graphs, and...
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 David Stokes | Mar 25, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a multi-faceted tool that includes the Security Threat Tool which provides the ability to check your databases for potential configuration or performance problems. And boy was I shocked to find I had problems when I...
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 Sergey Pronin | Nov 5, 2021 | Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
TL;DR The table below summarizes the message in this blog post. For more details and reasoning, please continue reading. What What is happening and when Percona Monitoring and Management v1 End of Life – May 2022 Percona Server for MongoDB v4.0 Percona...
by Todd Harris | Oct 14, 2021 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Percona has been named a finalist in the Computing Technology Product Awards for Best Use of Open Source Technologies. If you’re a customer, partner, or just a fan of Percona and what we stand for, we’d love your vote. With Great Power… You know the phrase....
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,...
by Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Oct 5, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
As a DBA, it is important to monitor a database to help us troubleshoot or to understand the health of an instance. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM v2) is open-source and does a great job in monitoring the databases like MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc. In this...
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 David Quilty | Sep 9, 2021 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Thanks to everyone who attended last week’s webinar on Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment; hopefully you’ve found the time we spent in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) useful. We had a record-breaking number of...
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 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 Michael Coburn | Jul 1, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Some of you may use MySQL’s asynchronous replication feature called Semisynchronous Replication (aka semi-sync), and now with the MySQL Semi-Sync Summary Dashboard + Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), you can see the most important metrics! Refer to the...
by Denys Kondratenko | May 19, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) is a managed database that doesn’t need to be installed and maintained but is instead provided as a service to the user. The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) DBaaS component allows users to CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)...
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 Sergey Kuzmichev | Apr 29, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Nothing lasts forever, including hardware running your EC2 instances. You will usually receive an advance warning on hardware degradation and subsequent instance retirement, but sometimes hardware fails unexpectedly. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) currently...
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...
