Steve Hoffman, Author at Percona Database Performance Blog Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:22:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.percona.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-percona-favicon-32x32.png Steve Hoffman, Author at Percona Database Performance Blog 32 32 76301791 PMM Is Getting a Modernized Enterprise-Grade Foundation https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-modernized-enterprise-grade-foundation https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-modernized-enterprise-grade-foundation#respond Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:56:08 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=89009 With Enterprise Linux 7 nearing its end-of-life date, the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) team has done a significant update to the base operating system we build our images on top of.  For several years now, PMM has been built on an Enterprise Linux 7 (EL7) base, specifically CentOS 7.  Even though it provided a […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-modernized-enterprise-grade-foundation/feed/ 0 89009 DBaaS in Under 20 Min! https://www.percona.com/blog/dbaas-kubernetes-in-under-20-min/ https://www.percona.com/blog/dbaas-kubernetes-in-under-20-min/#respond Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:04:58 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=80260 My father always used the expression, “sometimes the juice ain’t worth the squeeze”. What he meant by it was, “what you put into something better be worth what you get out of it”. Why do I bring this up?  Well…we’ve got this GREAT feature for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) we’ve been banging away on: […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/dbaas-kubernetes-in-under-20-min/feed/ 0 80260 Foiled by the Firewall: A Tale of Transition From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics https://www.percona.com/blog/foiled-by-the-firewall-a-tale-of-transition-from-prometheus-to-victoriametrics/ https://www.percona.com/blog/foiled-by-the-firewall-a-tale-of-transition-from-prometheus-to-victoriametrics/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2020 16:00:07 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=72881 When I was in the interview process here at Percona, I was told I’d be leading the team that delivered Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and so naturally, I wanted to know just what that meant.  I started researching the product and I got even more excited about this opportunity because as I read, PMM […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/foiled-by-the-firewall-a-tale-of-transition-from-prometheus-to-victoriametrics/feed/ 2 72881 Annotations Provide Context to Timelines in Percona Monitoring and Management https://www.percona.com/blog/annotations-provide-context-to-timelines-in-percona-monitoring-and-management/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:02:19 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=71772 About the Author – This blog was written as a collaboration with my colleague Jiri Ctvrtka.  Jiri is a senior software developer from Brno, Czech Republic, and has been partnering with Percona for almost a year working on various components of our Percona Platform. He’s been programming in Go since 2015 and Jiri’s got a […]]]> 71772 Percona Audit Log Plugin and the Percona Monitoring and Management Security Threat Tool https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-audit-log-plugin-and-the-percona-monitoring-and-management-security-threat-tool/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:59:45 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=69858 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 compliance as you have the ability to run checks daily, get alerts […]]]> 69858 Enable Email Sending in Percona Monitoring and Management 2 https://www.percona.com/blog/enable-email-sending-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-2/ https://www.percona.com/blog/enable-email-sending-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-2/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:10:44 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=69632 Many years ago I was banned from touching anything of critical importance as far as production infrastructure goes…something about “the leadership curse”, so the multiple layers of monitoring and notifications I once wrestled with were now overkill for my needs. What that means is that even though Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) now integrates with […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/enable-email-sending-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-2/feed/ 1 69632 Percona Monitoring and Management: Data Collection Practices https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-data-collection-practices/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:56:00 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=65957 Last month, our new Director of Product wrote a blog about all the cool things she learned about how we track Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) adoption and even went into what conclusions we can draw from that.  As you can imagine, I was excited she geeked out on what little data we gather just […]]]> 65957 Percona Monitoring and Management, Meet Prometheus Alertmanager https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-meet-prometheus-alertmanger/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-meet-prometheus-alertmanger/#comments Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:48:45 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=65447 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 robust enough!  We’ve been hard at work to change that […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-meet-prometheus-alertmanger/feed/ 9 65447