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 Daniil Bazhenov | Oct 5, 2020 | Open Source, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
Would you like to get the latest in Percona gear 100% free, shipped to you anywhere in the world? Maybe that sounds too good to be true, but it’s true! It’s easy and takes as little as 20 minutes to earn your swag. Here are some examples of the swag items you can...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 1, 2020 | Hardware and Storage, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Network volumes in Kubernetes provide great flexibility, but still, nothing beats local volumes from direct-attached storage in the sense of database performance. I want to explore ways to deploy both Percona Kubernetes Operators (Percona Kubernetes Operator for...
by David Quilty | Oct 1, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
This webinar will be delivered in Italian. MongoDB is the most used document-oriented database but some of the more requested features are available only in the Enterprise version. Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) is an alternative to MongoDB with its open source,...
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 David Quilty | Sep 28, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
by Taras Onishchuk | Sep 25, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
We all like when error messages are descriptive and give a clear idea about what is happening; however, there are some cases when a few possible reasons lay behind one error message. “MySQL server has gone away” is one of them. Most of the cases when the...
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 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...
by David Quilty | Sep 15, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
In this webinar, we will explore the Percona Kubernetes Operator for the Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) database. Kubernetes is a widely-deployed orchestration platform for container management. Recently, more and more companies are moving towards containerized...
by Stephen Thorn | Sep 14, 2020 | MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
We really enjoyed presenting Percona Server for MongoDB’s data-at-rest encryption functionality. The webinar Percona Server for MongoDB Data-at-Rest Encryption was recorded and can be viewed here at any time. We had several great questions, which we would like...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Sep 14, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Services, Percona Software
MySQL 8.0 General Availability release was launched in April 2018, and since then there have been ten versions of MySQL 8 and Percona Server for MySQL released. The MySQL Community expressed a high opinion of the MySQL 8.0 advantages, so a lot of databases have been...
by David Quilty | Sep 14, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 11, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
One of the questions you often will be faced with operating a Linux-based system is managing memory budget. If a program uses more memory than available you may get swapping to happen, oftentimes with a terrible performance impact, or have Out of Memory (OOM) Killer...
by David Quilty | Aug 31, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as links to the full release notes and direct...
by Lalit Choudhary | Aug 31, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Percona Software
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 form,...
by Ivan Groenewold | Aug 20, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software
Have you ever had to provision a large number of instances from a single backup? The most common use case is having to move to new hardware, but there are other scenarios as well. This kind of procedure can involve multiple backup/restore operations which can easily...
