by Sergey Pronin | Apr 20, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Kubernetes Operators support various options for storage: Persistent Volume (PV), hostPath, ephemeral storage, etc. In most of the cases, PVs are used, which are provisioned by the Operator through Storage Classes and Persistent Volume Claims. Storage Classes...
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 Marco Tusa | Apr 15, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
While I was working on my grFailOver POC, I have also done some additional parallel testing. One of them was to see how online DDL is executed inside a Group Replication cluster. The online DDL feature provides support for instant and in-place table alterations and...
by Tom Basil | Apr 14, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
You can earn Percona swag by writing a short technical review about Percona software by May 30, 2021! The keyword here is technical. Percona is seeking reviews that describe Percona software use in particular environments or in solving particular issues, and why!...
by Marco Tusa | Apr 14, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Where x is >= 22 😉 The Problem There are few things your data does not like. One is water and another is fire. Well, guess what: If you think that everything will be fine after all, take a look: Given my ISP had part of its management infrastructure on OVH, they...
by Marco Tusa | Apr 14, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
This blog provides high availability (HA) guidelines using group replication architecture and deployment recommendations in MySQL, based on our best practices. Every architecture and deployment depends on the customer requirements and application demands for high...
by David Quilty | Apr 12, 2021 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full...
by Michael Patrick | Apr 9, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Software
Recently, I needed to set up a Proof of Concept (POC) and wanted to do it on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). After documenting the process, it seemed it might be helpful for others looking for the most basic guide possible to get a Mongo server up and running on GCP. ...
by Michael Patrick | Apr 7, 2021 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Services, Percona Software
So your MySQL server has crashed. What do you do now? When a server is down, in my opinion, there are two steps that are essential and both are extremely important and neither should be neglected: Save diagnostic information for determining the root cause analysis...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 7, 2021 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Kubernetes Operators allow users to simplify deployment and management of MongoDB and MySQL databases on Kubernetes. Both operators allow users to store backups on S3-compatible storage and leverage Percona XtraBackup and Percona Backup for MongoDB to deliver...
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 Mike Benshoof | Apr 1, 2021 | MySQL, Percona Software, Storage Engine
Percona Technical Account Managers get the privilege of working with some of our largest enterprise clients day in and day out. As such, we get to really focus on how to best leverage our technology to generate measurable benefits for our users. While it is fun to...
by Sergey Pronin | Apr 1, 2021 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
It is no secret that compute and storage costs are the main drivers of cloud bills. Migration of data from the legacy data center to the cloud looks appealing at first as it significantly reduces capital expense (CapEx) and keeps operational expenses (OpEx) under...
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 Vinodh Krishnaswamy | Mar 30, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
by David Quilty | Mar 29, 2021 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time again here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full...
by Kathy Williamson | Mar 25, 2021 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
Have you ever wondered what it takes to complete Percona Server for MySQL (PS), Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and Percona XtraBackup (PXB) releases? Let’s step back just a minute and talk about what Percona stands for. We believe we “stand on the shoulders of...
