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 Daniil Bazhenov | Mar 9, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
We are so grateful to all users of our software. Thanks to you, some of them have just been recognized as a Winter 2021 category leader by SourceForge! Percona Monitoring And Management is the leader in the Database Monitoring Tools category Percona Server for MongoDB...
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 Sergey Pronin | Feb 12, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes, but after some time they see an unexpected growth around cloud costs. Engineering teams did their part in setting up auto-scalers, but the cloud bill is still growing. Today we are going to see how Percona Monitoring...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 12, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
One piece of feedback I often hear from users of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is that while the Query Analytics feature is great and provides a lot of insights into queries the server handled, it can’t help us to see which queries are running now. Problem...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 9, 2021 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
I have a local Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance at home, which I use to look after my local databases. With the release of PMM 2.14 and its support for monitoring of external “serverless” stuff, I decided to check if I can get some insights into my...
by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 8, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
About two years ago I wrote about installing Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) on Linode using StackScripts. This is a great way to automate the process, and now you can do even better by deploying Percona Monitoring and Management from Linode Marketplace. The...
by Michael Coburn | Feb 3, 2021 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
Hi and thanks to all who attended my webinar on Tuesday, January 26th titled Using PMM to Identify & Troubleshoot Problematic MySQL Queries! Like we do after all our webinars, we compile the list of questions that were answered verbally and also those that were...
by Vadim Yalovets | Jan 29, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In Percona Monitoring and Management 2.12.0 (PMM), we replaced Prometheus with VictoriaMetrics. Metrics data can now be ‘pushed’ to the server as well as being ‘pulled’ by the server. This is useful if you want to keep open ports to a minimum or your monitored system...
by Diana Muina | Jan 12, 2021 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Services, Percona Software
This week we officially kick-off the Preview of Database as a Service (DBaaS) in Percona Monitoring and Management. We are still looking for users to test and provide feedback during this year-long program, and we would love you to participate! Our vision is...
by Puneet Kala | Dec 23, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v2.12.0 comes with a lot of improvements and one of the most talked-about is the usage of VictoriaMetricsDB. The reason we are doing this comparison is that PMM 2.12.0 is a release in which we integrate VictoriaMetricsDB and...
by Matt Yonkovit | Dec 17, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Hello everyone! I wanted to outline a new program we are trying out. We are calling it, Percona Open Source Expert Missions. So, you might be asking… What the heck is that? An Expert Mission is a challenge or a contest of skill. Here at Percona, we are always looking...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 16, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Starting with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.12, we use VictoriaMetrics instead of Prometheus as a metrics store. This blog is written as an FAQ to explain our reasoning for this change as well as to provide answers to various questions on what it may mean...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 15, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
If you’re building custom dashboards for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), chances are you would like to use Prometheus recording rules for better performance. In the nutshell, recording rules act somewhat as materialized views in relational databases,...
