by David Quilty | Jan 7, 2021 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
Many organizations require an Enterprise subscription of MongoDB for the support coverage and additional features that it provides. However, many are unaware that there is an open source alternative offering all the features and benefits of a MongoDB Enterprise...
by Tomislav Plavcic | Jan 6, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
So far, Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) has supported only managing replica sets, but from version 1.6.0 it is possible to start a sharding cluster, although at the moment only with one shard. This is a step toward supporting full...
by David Quilty | Jan 6, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MariaDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Don’t miss out! Join Peter Zaitsev, Percona CEO, as he discusses MariaDB observability! A broken MariaDB means a broken application, so maintaining insights in MariaDB operational performance is critical. Thankfully MariaDB offers a lot in terms of observability...
by Stephen Thorn | Jan 4, 2021 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
We had great attendance, questions, and feedback from our “Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB” webinar, which was recorded and can be viewed here. You can view another Q&A from a previous webinar on “Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB”...
by Lalit Choudhary | Jan 4, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full-transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in any of the databases that we support. And, in true open-source...
by David Quilty | Jan 4, 2021 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time 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 release...
by Marcelo Altmann | Dec 28, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
A lot of elements take part in a good backup strategy. Two of them are: Where to store your backups – Never on the same server. Preferable not in the same datacenter. Ideally far enough so you can restore in case of a natural disaster (region flood, extended...
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 David Quilty | Dec 21, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time 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 release...
by Brandon Fleisher | Dec 18, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
As strange as it sounds, there are types of software applications that are designed for users to NOT spend each minute of every day within the application (where the goal of so many software applications is to attract as many “eyeballs” for as long as possible to...
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,...
by Evgeniy Patlan | Dec 15, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
How do you install an application? Nowadays a lot of companies want to use the latest technology and more and more of them are moving infrastructure to clouds. And in order to simplify maintenance, they are using Kubernetes. But still, the vast majority use the bare...
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 David Quilty | Dec 8, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time 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 release...
by Peter Zaitsev | Dec 7, 2020 | MySQL, Open Source, Security
As you may know, MySQL 5.6 will reach EOL (“End of Life”) in February 2021. This means in about two months, there will be no more updates, and more importantly, no more security fixes for discovered vulnerabilities. You may be well ahead of the curve...
by Sergey Pronin | Dec 7, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Last year AWS was about to ban the “multi-cloud” term in co-branding guides for Partners, removed the ban after community and partners critique, and now embraces multi-cloud strategy. One of the products that AWS announced during its last re:Invent was Amazon EKS...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Dec 2, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
We continue to give away exclusive Percona swag for your honest reviews about our products. Today we are glad to announce a special winter set that works for the reviews on specific products. Percona is developing three excellent products created for MongoDB database...
by Vinicius Grippa | Dec 2, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
The benefits of jemalloc versus glibc memory allocator for use with MySQL have been widely discussed. With jemalloc (along with Transparent Huge Pages disabled) there is less memory fragmentation, and thus more efficient resource management of the server memory. For...
