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 Jobin Augustine | Dec 1, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
In one of my previous blog posts, Why PostgreSQL WAL Archival is Slow, I tried to explain three of the major design limitations of PostgreSQL’s WAL archiver which is not so great for a database with high WAL generation. In this post, I want to discuss how...
by Marco Tusa | Nov 30, 2020 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software, ProxySQL
How scheduler and script stand in supporting failover (Percona and Marco example) In part one of this series, I had illustrated how simple scenarios may fail or have problems when using Galera native support inside ProxySQL. In this post, I will repeat the same...
by Marco Tusa | Nov 30, 2020 | MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software, ProxySQL
How native ProxySQL stands in failover support (both v2.0.15 and v2.1.0) In recent times I have been designing several solutions focused on High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Some of them using Percona Server for MySQL with group replication, some using Percona...
by David Quilty | Nov 30, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Barrett Chambers, Percona Solutions Engineer, for an engaging webinar on MongoDB vs. Open Source. Many organizations require Enterprise subscriptions for the coverage and features that it provides. However, many are unaware that there is an open source...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 23, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster serves the purpose, but also provides users the flexibility to fine-tune their MySQL and proxy services configuration....
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 David Quilty | Nov 23, 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 David Quilty | Nov 20, 2020 | Percona Software, Webinars
Don’t miss out! Join Peter Zaitsev, Percona CEO, as he discusses Linux Performance measurement. In this webinar, Peter will look at typical mistakes measuring or interpreting Linux Performance. He’ll discuss whether you should use LoadAvg to assess if your...
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 Fernando Laudares Camargos | Nov 17, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
Kubernetes has been a big trend for a while now, particularly well-suited for microservices. Running your main databases on Kubernetes is probably NOT what you are looking for. However, there’s a niche market for them. My colleague Stephen Thorn did a great job...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 13, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Our recent survey showed that many organizations saw unexpected growth around cloud and data. Unexpected bills can become a big problem, especially in such uncertain times. This blog post talks about how Kubernetes scaling capabilities work with Percona Kubernetes...
by Ivan Groenewold | Nov 10, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is our open source tool for backing up MongoDB clusters. Initially, the tool was developed for restoring the backups in the same environment they are taken. In this post, I will show you how to restore a backup to a new environment...
by David Quilty | Nov 9, 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 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 Corrado Pandiani | Nov 5, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
by David Quilty | Nov 5, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
We invite you to join members of the Percona Solution Engineering Team as they walk through the task of migrating a MongoDB database to Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB). By the end of this hands-on workshop you should feel comfortable with: Uninstalling MongoDB...
by Sergey Pronin | Nov 4, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Kata containers are containers that use hardware virtualization technologies for workload isolation almost without performance penalties. Top use cases are untrusted workloads and tenant isolation (for example in a shared Kubernetes cluster). This blog post describes...
by Matthew Boehm | Nov 3, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
So you’ve just added some more memory to your MySQL server; now what? If you’ve been around the MySQL block for a while, you know that nothing is automatically changed to take advantage of this new system RAM. Let’s have a look at a few parameters...
by David Quilty | Nov 3, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
There are many potential benefits to moving to the cloud such as increasing resources on the fly, multi-region infrastructure, and hardware maintenance, to mention only a few. On the other hand, there are critical points such as security (the latest was MEOW attack),...
