by Corrado Pandiani | Dec 9, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
Whichever way you installed Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM2), using the docker image or an OVF image for your supported virtualized environment, PMM2 enables, by default, two ports for the web connections: 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS. Using HTTPS...
by Steve Hoffman | Dec 1, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
When I was in the interview process here at Percona, I was told I’d be leading the team that delivered Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and so naturally, I wanted to know just what that meant. I started researching the product and I got even more excited about...
by Brandon Fleisher | Nov 23, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
In the first quarter of 2021 (expected late January), Percona is slated to release a version of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v2 that will include all of the critical functionality users of PMM v1 have come to know and love over the years. While PMM v2 has...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Nov 19, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
We would love you to help us spread the word about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to make sure even more people are aware of it and adopting it. And we are not afraid to offer (modest) bribes! If you already use PMM please write an independent review of its...
by Ivan Groenewold | Nov 5, 2020 | MongoDB, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
Normally it is quite easy to deploy Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server as a Docker container as per the official documentation. However, when working in very restrictive environments, it is possible the server doesn’t have access to the public...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 2, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Understanding how MySQL uses memory is key to tuning it for optimal performance as well as troubleshooting cases of unexpected memory usage, i.e. when you have MySQL Server using a lot more than you would expect based on your configuration settings. Early in MySQL...
by Paul Jacobs | Oct 26, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona is making changes in its documentation processes for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to make it easier and more welcoming for community members to contribute to our documentation. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, open-source database...
by Steve Hoffman | Oct 22, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
About the Author – This blog was written as a collaboration with my colleague Jiri Ctvrtka. Jiri is a senior software developer from Brno, Czech Republic, and has been partnering with Percona for almost a year working on various components of our Percona...
by Mike Grayson | Oct 19, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source tool developed by Percona that allows you to monitor and manage your MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases. This blog will give you an overview of troubleshooting your MongoDB deployments with PMM. Let’s...
by Vadim Yalovets | Oct 12, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
From time to time we are asked how to limit users to viewing only some dashboards or servers in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Here are some hints on how to do this. Let’s imagine you want the following: Users user1 and user2 are only allowed to see...
by Rituja Borse | Oct 8, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL databases. In this blog, we will look at troubleshooting MySQL issues and performance bottlenecks with the help of PMM. We can start...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Oct 7, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Visibility is a blessing, and with databases, visibility is a must. That’s true not only for metrics but for the queries themselves. Having info on all the stats around query execution is priceless, and Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) offers that in the form...
by Vasyl Yurkovych | Oct 7, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
Hey Community! This is my first blog post so let me introduce myself. My name is Vasyl Yurkovych. I am a QA Automation Engineer at Percona and I have solid experience in software testing. Software quality is one of the main focuses of Percona so we put a lot of...
by Nicola Lamacchia | Sep 29, 2020 | Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
With version 2.9.1 of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) we delivered some new improvements to its Security Threat Tool (STT). Aside from an updated user interface, you now have the ability to run STT checks manually at any time, instead of waiting for the normal...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 28, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.10 shipped a few days ago and while it is a minor release, it introduces some features which I absolutely love. In this blog post, I will talk about those features – what they are and why they are worth loving. 🙂 1. Query...
by Rituja Borse | Sep 23, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL databases, along with Load Balancing tools like ProxySQL. It is also ‘cloud ready’, meaning it has support for monitoring DBaaS...
by Carlos Salguero | Sep 22, 2020 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
by Avinash Vallarapu | Sep 22, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software, PostgreSQL, Security
I have previously written a blog post on the detailed steps involved in enabling PostgreSQL monitoring using PMM. In that post, you could see me talking about the role: pg_monitor that can be granted to monitoring users. The pg_monitor role restricts a monitoring user...
by Roman Misyurin | Sep 16, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
As you may know, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is based on Grafana, and all our frontend applications are either Grafana plugins or dashboards. We’ve just released PMM version 2.10 and it includes a lot of improvements and new functionality. In this...
by Brandon Fleisher | Sep 16, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Services, Percona Software
Google, Microsoft, and Apple have it. So do open source organizations like MongoDB, Red Hat, and SUSE. What do all these companies provide? A customer portal that enables anyone to create an identity with the company. To date, Percona hasn’t had a customer portal with...
