by Vadim Tkachenko | Aug 23, 2022 | Cloud, Monitoring, Percona Software
We currently provide multiple ways to install Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server, with the primary way to use a docker: Install Percona Monitoring and Management or Podman: Podman – Percona Monitoring and Management We implemented it this way to...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jul 13, 2022 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, I will demonstrate how to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) to find out the reason why the MySQL server is stalling. I will use only one typical situation for the MySQL server stall in this example, but the same dashboards, graphs, and...
by Alexander Demidoff | Jul 7, 2022 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
We highly value security here at Percona, and in this blog post, we will show how to protect your Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server with an SSL certificate and automate its lifecycle by leveraging a proxy server. Introduction As you may know, PMM Server...
by Sergey Pronin | Jun 22, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Over the course of the years, we see the growing interest in running databases and stateful workloads in Kubernetes. With Container Storage Interfaces (CSI) maturing and more and more Operators appearing, running stateful workloads in your favorite platform is not...
by Ivan Groenewold | Feb 16, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Dec 20, 2021 | Monitoring, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
The recent release of Percona Monitoring and Management 2.25.0 (PMM) includes a fix for bug PMM-6937: before that, PMM expected all monitoring connections to PostgreSQL servers to be made using the default postgres database. This worked well for most deployments,...
by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 14, 2021 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
A few weeks ago we did a live stream talking about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and showcased some of the fun things we were doing at the OSS Summit. During the live stream, we tried to enable some custom queries to track the number of comments being added...
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Jul 7, 2021 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In the previous posts of this series, I presented how the Percona Support team approaches the analysis and troubleshooting of a MySQL server using a tried-and-tested method supported by specific tools found in the Percona Toolkit: Inspecting MySQL Servers Part 1: The...
by Ivan Groenewold | Jun 14, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) recently introduced the Integrated Alerting feature as a technical preview. This was a very eagerly awaited feature, as PMM doesn’t need to integrate with an external alerting system anymore. Recently we blogged about the...
by Sergey Kuzmichev | Apr 29, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Nothing lasts forever, including hardware running your EC2 instances. You will usually receive an advance warning on hardware degradation and subsequent instance retirement, but sometimes hardware fails unexpectedly. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) currently...
by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 28, 2021 | Monitoring, Percona Software
One way to run Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v2 on Windows is using the Virtual Appliance installation method. It works well but requires you to run extra software to run Virtual Appliances, such as Oracle VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation Player, etc. Or, you...
by Daniil Bazhenov | Apr 27, 2021 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software
We’re leveling up – would you like to join us on Discord? There we chat about databases, open source, and even play together. On May 6th at 11 am EST, the Percona Community is talking about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Our experts are also there to...
by Artem Gavrilov | Apr 16, 2021 | Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.13 (PMM) introduced the Integrated Alerting feature as a technical preview. It adds a user-friendly way to set up and manage alerts for your databases. You can read more about this feature usage in our announcement blog post, while...
by Mike Grayson | Jan 26, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a great way to monitor your MongoDB deployment for things like memory, CPU, inter-database metrics like wiredTiger cache utilization, read/write ticket utilization, Query Analytics, and many, many more. Did you know that in...
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 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 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 Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Jul 22, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
The Security Threat Tool has been available since Percona Monitoring and Management 2.6.0 (PMM) and starting from that first release it is proving to be a severely-needed feature. If you’re not familiar with the Security Threat Tool (STT), it helps you to ensure...
by Peter Zaitsev | Jul 15, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
When I speak about MySQL performance troubleshooting (or frankly any other database), I tend to speak about four primary resources which typically end up being a bottleneck and limiting system performance: CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network. It would be great if when...
by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Jun 23, 2020 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
