by David Quilty | Mar 16, 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 Matt Yonkovit | Mar 16, 2020 | Database Trends, Percona Services, Percona Software
The full impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the world is yet to be seen, but it certainly has taken an immediate and drastic toll. Although not as important as the human toll, one that will have a broad effect is a downturn in what was a booming economy. During...
by Alexey Palazhchenko | Mar 12, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
My boss asked me if there is a way to wait for the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server container to be fully ready so his automation script can start adding monitoring instances. I wanted to give him a general solution, not a PMM-specific one. Turned out,...
by Vadim Yalovets | Mar 12, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
This blog post is about how you can gain detailed information in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM2) of PostgreSQL disk usage. We take a look at using a catalog called pg_class, which catalogs tables and most everything else that has columns or is otherwise...
by David Quilty | Mar 4, 2020 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
As a MySQL DBA, the databases powering your applications need to handle changing traffic workloads while remaining responsive and stable so you can deliver an excellent user experience. Optimizing MySQL performance and troubleshooting MySQL problems cost-efficiently...
by David Quilty | Mar 2, 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 | Feb 28, 2020 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
There are a lot of things I love about Prometheus; its data model is fantastic for monitoring applications and PromQL language is often more expressive than SQL for data retrieval needs you have in the observability space. One thing, though, I hate about Prometheus...
by Terri Schlosser | Feb 26, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
As a new member of the Percona team, one of the first things I was interested in understanding was our software adoption. I decided to take a look at the information we have about adoption (instances running) of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and found some...
by Rachel Pescador | Feb 25, 2020 | Cloud, Database Trends, Percona Services, Percona Software
The race to the cloud continues gaining pace, and many businesses have already enthusiastically embraced the new opportunities and efficiencies the cloud can bring. But, for those companies with more traditional technology structures and a lack of cloud knowledge...
by Steve Hoffman | Feb 21, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
One of the requests we get most often on the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team is “Do you support alerting?” The answer to that question has always been “Yes” but the feedback on how we offered it natively was that it was, well, not...
by Robert Golebiowski | Feb 19, 2020 | MySQL, Percona Software, Security
In the last blog post of this series, we discussed in detail how Master Key encryption works. In this post, based on what we already know about Master Key encryption, we look into how Master Key rotation works. The idea behind Master Key rotation is that we want to...
by David Quilty | Feb 19, 2020 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
This talk covers some of the challenges we sought to address by creating a Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster, as well as a look into the current state of the Operator, a brief demonstration of its capabilities, and a preview of the roadmap for the...
by David Quilty | Feb 17, 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 Corrado Pandiani | Feb 13, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
This is the second part of a two-articles series. In the first part, we introduced the Common Table Expression (CTE), a new feature available on MySQL 8.0 as well as Percona Server for MySQL 8.0. In this article, we’ll present the Recursive Common Table...
by Roma Novikov | Feb 11, 2020 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
We recently released Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) version 2.2 and as part of this release, we made it available on the AWS Marketplace. In this blog post, I’ll explain how to find PMM in the AWS marketplace and how to install it. It is important to...
by Corrado Pandiani | Feb 10, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
This blog is the first part of a two-articles series. In this article, I’m going to introduce the Common Table Expression (CTE), a new feature available on MySQL 8.0, as well as Percona Server for MySQL 8. What is a Common Table Expression? We can define a CTE...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Feb 7, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software
As our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster gains in popularity, I am getting questions about its performance and how to measure it properly. Sysbench is the most popular tool for database performance evaluation, so let’s review how we can use it...
by David Quilty | Feb 3, 2020 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Every few weeks we put together a Release Roundup which showcases the latest in software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software, with highlights and critical information, as well as...
by Rick Golba | Jan 29, 2020 | MongoDB, Percona Software
As noted on our Software and Platform Lifecycle page, Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 reached end of life on January 31, 2020. According to the Percona Services Lifecycle Policy, customers with an active support contract with Percona will continue receiving support;...
by Rachel Pescador | Jan 27, 2020 | Database Trends, Open Source, Percona Services, Percona Software
What is Vendor Lock-In? When a company becomes too reliant upon a single vendor or solution, they can find themselves victims of vendor lock-in. Vendor lock-in is a common problem for companies that use proprietary software, databases, or platforms. Issues arise when...
