Percona Platform

You’ll gain access to a larger set of more advanced Advisor insights. Advisors provide automated insights and recommendations within PMM. These proactive insights help you uncover problems before they become larger issues.

To start using Percona Platform, you need to:

• install the latest version of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Outgoing internet access is required for PMM.
• enable the telemetry to access intelligence features, like Percona Advisors

The complete list of prerequisites and getting started instructions for PMM can be found here.

Percona Platform consists of three main components:

• Open source software and tools:  Distributions + Kubernetes Operators + PMM (includes DBaaS) + Portal
• Access to Percona Experts – Support tickets, Managed Services, and Professional Services to ensure your databases run better. 
• Automated Insights – Customized, targeted alerts and advice for a customer’s specific database needs.

To have a holistic experience with Percona Platform and have access to all available features in your subscription tier, the optimal requirements are:

• have the latest version of PMM installed
• have a registered Percona Account

The use of Percona database distributions or Percona Operators is not mandatory as you begin adopting the Percona Platform. You will increase your value, however, with each additional component you adopt. Paying customers must use Percona distributions as well as PMM to provide a consistent, robust experience with the best possible support.

No, Percona Platform is a freemium offering. The software we distribute to customers and users is open source and does not require registration or even a subscription. Certain value-added features require a registration, while some advanced ones like security audits or advanced Percona Advisors will need a subscription.

Subscriptions can be canceled at any time. Software features will continue to work without any downtime or software change — no vendor lock-in.

Create a Percona Account to instantly access all Percona Platform benefits at no cost: unified access to open source Percona Platform software (database servers, backup extensions, and observability and management tools for MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and other popular technologies), Percona Advisors, Private DBaaS, K8s operators, knowledge base and self-paced training. To unlock additional features and services, such as advanced Percona Advisors, 24/7 support and fully managed services for production and mission-critical environments, consider subscribing to one of the Percona Platform plans:

Self-Managed Subscription

• Standard – Software and services plan for production database environments, managed by your team with assistance from Percona. Includes a 30-minute support SLA guarantee, consultative support via multiple channels, and an assigned Customer Success Manager.
• Premium – Software and services package for mission-critical database workloads. Includes a 15-minute SLA guarantee, and exclusive rates for on-demand project work.

Percona-Managed Subscription

• Standard – A fully managed software and services plan for production database environments that require 24/7 hands-on care from Percona experts.
• Premium – A fully managed enterprise-grade software and services plan for mission-critical database environments featuring more frequent proactive assessments and performance tuning tailored to your business needs.

Advisors provide automated insights and recommendations within Percona Monitoring and Management. These proactive insights help you uncover database and application problems before they become larger issues.

Percona Advisors are constantly evolving with technology and user feedback. Currently, checks are performed for the following risks and optimization opportunities:

• Availability at risk
• Replication inconsistencies
• Durability at risk
• Passwordless users
• Unsecure connections
• Unstable OS configuration
• Available performance improvements

New Percona Advisors are released more often than PMM, which is why Percona Advisors are not shipped in the default PMM repository.

To start using Percona Advisors, you need to enable the feature in PMM Settings (Settings -> Advanced -> Advisor Checks -> enabled).

Even though Percona Advisors are stored on Percona servers, you are free to create your own Advisors using our instructions.

Security and privacy are top priorities across Percona Platform, which includes our open source software, database distributions, services, and support. You can read our policies here.