by Corrado Pandiani | Dec 17, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
We recently released Percona Backup for MongoDB(PBM) as GA. It’s our open source tool for taking a consistent backup of a running standalone mongod instance, a Replica Set, or a Sharded Cluster as well. The following articles can give you an overview of the...
by David Quilty | Dec 17, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software, Webinars
MySQL has been ranked as the second most popular database since 2012 according to DB-Engines. Three features help it retain its top position: replication, storage engines, and NoSQL support. During this webinar, we’ll discuss the MySQL architecture surrounding...
by David Quilty | Dec 2, 2019 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Today’s release post encompasses Percona releases from November 19, 2019 – December 2, 2019. Every few weeks, each roundup showcases the latest in software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and...
by Vadim Yalovets | Nov 27, 2019 | Monitoring, Percona Services, Percona Software
Want to try out Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM 2) but you’re not ready to turn off your PMM 1 environment? This blog is for you! Keep in mind that the methods described are not intended to be a long-term migration strategy, but rather, simply a way to...
by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 22, 2019 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
As Grafana powers our star product – Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – we have developed a lot of experience creating Grafana Dashboards over the last few years. In this article, I will share some of the considerations for designing Grafana...
by Agustín | Nov 20, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will see how to use perf (a.k.a.: perf_events) together with Flame Graphs. They are used to generate a graphical representation of what functions are being called within our software of choice. Percona Server for MySQL is used here, but it can be...
by David Quilty | Nov 18, 2019 | Percona Services, Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! As mentioned a few weeks ago, we are now publishing release roundups comprising all the details and information you need on the previous week (or two)’s releases from Percona. This post will encompass releases...
by David Quilty | Nov 4, 2019 | Percona Software
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! We publish quite a few updates to our software and services every week, so we wanted to make it a little easier for you to keep track of our latest releases. So, starting today we will publish release roundups...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 31, 2019 | Percona Services, Percona Software
One of the great things about Percona, and a Percona Support contract, is that we not only guarantee application performance but we also provide bug fixes for covered software—and not just advice on how to use it. This is most likely missing from most customer’s...
by Avinash Vallarapu | Oct 29, 2019 | Percona Software, PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is a widely-used Open Source database and has been the DBMS of the year for the past 2 years in DB-Engine rankings. As such, there is always a need for reliable and robust monitoring solutions. While there are some commercial monitoring tools, there is an...
by Corrado Pandiani | Oct 29, 2019 | Insight for Developers, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software
by Adamo Tonete | Oct 28, 2019 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Hi everyone! This is one of the most requested subjects to our support team and I’d like to share the steps as a tutorial blog post. Today, we will set up internal authentication using x.509 certificates as well as enabling TSL/SSL. If using authentication in...
by Ramesh Sivaraman | Oct 15, 2019 | MySQL, Percona Software
This blog post will help you configure a 3-node Percona XtraDB Cluster using a binary tarball on your local machine. Configuration files are auto-generated with mostly default configurations except for port/IP address details. The tool has the handy script to create...
by Borys Belinsky | Oct 10, 2019 | MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6.14-3.4 on October 10, 2019. Download the latest version from the Percona website or the Percona software repositories. Percona Server for MongoDB is an enhanced, open source, and highly-scalable database...
by Michael Patrick | Oct 7, 2019 | Percona Software
One thing that comes up often from working with a variety of clients at Percona is “How can I achieve a Disaster Recovery (DR) solution with Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)?” Unfortunately, decisions are sometimes made with far-reaching consequences by...
by Kenn Takara | Oct 3, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software, ProxySQL
The problem In PXC 5.6 and 5.7, when using xtrabackup-v2 as the SST method, the DBA must create a user with the appropriate privileges for use by Percona XtraBackup (PXB). The username and password of this backup user are specified in the wsrep_sst_auth variable. This...
by Rachel Pescador | Sep 30, 2019 | Database Trends, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona Backup for MongoDB v1 is the first GA version of our new MongoDB backup tool. This has been custom-built to assist those users who don’t want to pay for MongoDB Enterprise and Ops Manager but do want a fully-supported community backup tool that can perform...
by Walter Garcia | Sep 26, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
In a previous post, I showed you how to compile Percona Mysql 5.7 on Raspberry PI 3. Now, I’ll show you how to compile and run the latest version of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7.26. We will need at least 3 RaspberryPi 3 boards, and I recommend you use an external...
by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 25, 2019 | Monitoring, Percona Software
As the saying goes, a picture is worth 1000 words – and this is why we don’t just talk about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) but also have a demo which allows you to explore many PMM features without having to install it. Though there is only so...
by Borys Belinsky | Sep 23, 2019 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
Percona is happy to announce the GA release of our latest software product Percona Backup for MongoDB 1.0.0 on September 23, 2019. Percona Backup for MongoDB is a distributed, low-impact solution for consistent backups of MongoDB sharded clusters and replica sets....
