by Sergey Pronin | Jul 14, 2025 | Cloud, Insight for Developers, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This blog was originally published in 2021 and updated in 2025. Running PostgreSQL in production means balancing high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability without adding unnecessary complexity. Kubernetes helps by providing a consistent way to orchestrate...
by Sergey Pronin | Jul 1, 2025 | Cloud, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This post was originally published in 2021 and was updated in 2025. Kubernetes adoption keeps climbing, and databases are often one of the last workloads teams try to move. The reasons are clear: PostgreSQL is critical, downtime isn’t an option, and migration can feel...
by Divyanshu Soni | Apr 2, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in September 2020 and was updated in April 2025. As a MongoDB user, ensuring your data is safe and secure in the event of a disaster or system failure is crucial. That’s why it’s essential to implement effective MongoDB...
by Satya Bodapati | Mar 24, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
When performing backups, reducing the amount of time your server is locked can significantly improve performance and minimize disruptions. Percona XtraBackup 8.4 Pro introduces improvements in how DDL (Data Definition Language) locks (aka Backup Locks) are managed,...
by David Quilty | Mar 14, 2025 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Database disasters come with a hefty price tag. According to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting’s 2024 Hourly Cost of Downtime Report, 41% of enterprises face downtime costs ranging from $1 million to over $5 million per hour of outage. How can...
by Aleksandra Mitroshkina | Mar 11, 2025 | Percona Services, Percona Software
The latest releases from Percona bring targeted improvements that help organizations streamline deployments, strengthen security, and optimize performance in demanding enterprise environments. From Kubernetes-native database management to security-hardened monitoring,...
by Konstantin Trushin | Jan 10, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Security
When setting up data-at-rest encryption (also known as transparent data encryption) in Percona Server for MongoDB, one has three options for storing a master encryption key: Encryption key file on a filesystem, KMIP server, HashiCorp’s Vault. An encryption key...
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 21, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by Ivan Groenewold | Oct 15, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) supports snapshot-based physical backups. This is made possible by the backup cursor functionality present in Percona Server for MongoDB. In a previous post, we discussed Percona Backup for MongoDB and Disk Snapshots in Google Cloud...
by Bartek Gatz | Sep 4, 2024 | Database Trends, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This article is, in fact, two topics merged into one publication. Both are related to anonymous statistical data collection within Percona releases of database engines: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. In the first part of this article, I will share some of our...
by Roma Novikov | Aug 27, 2024 | Monitoring, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
We’ve received numerous reports about issues occurring with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) when updating to the latest version (currently 2.42.0), or updating to any version from an old version (2.37.1 and before) using the update button on the UI. Symptoms...
by Steve Hoffman | Aug 2, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
We published a blog a few months back about incorporating telemetry into our core database products. My colleague, Bartek, did a great job highlighting the benefits to both Percona and our users, so I won’t re-list them all here, but we did want to let everyone know...
by Evgeniy Patlan | Jul 8, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
As announced in Percona’s Important Update, effective July 1st, the percona/original and tools repositories will no longer be updated. This means that users need to check their systems and ensure that the necessary repositories are enabled to maintain the...
by Roma Novikov | Jun 3, 2024 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a powerful tool for keeping your databases healthy, but what about PMM itself? While it comes pre-packaged as an appliance, PMM’s internal workings can be complex. Many users, including our internal teams, frequently...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Feb 5, 2024 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
Percona Everest is a cloud-native database platform to deploy and manage enterprise-grade PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and MySQL database clusters. Percona Everest 0.7.0 (Alpha) was released on January 31, 2024. The new version contains significant changes on the backend....
by David Quilty | Feb 5, 2024 | Percona Services, Percona Software
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is...
by David Quilty | Jan 22, 2024 | Percona Services, Percona Software
Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Percona software is...
by David Quilty | Jan 8, 2024 | Percona Services, Percona Software
Welcome to the first release roundup of 2024… and we’ve been busy! Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize...
by Michael Villegas | Jan 2, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Managing database servers involves different aspects, among which security is critical. We know that we should always grant the minimal required permissions to the different user accounts in the database, as having a user with high-level permission can lead to...
