Michael Coburn, Author at Percona Database Performance Blog Fri, 16 Feb 2024 21:32:54 +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 Michael Coburn, Author at Percona Database Performance Blog 32 32 76301791 Conquering Mt. Elbert After Percona Live 2023 in Denver https://www.percona.com/blog/conquering-mt-elbert-after-percona-live-2023-in-denver/ https://www.percona.com/blog/conquering-mt-elbert-after-percona-live-2023-in-denver/#respond Wed, 07 Jun 2023 12:02:53 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=88334 If you’re going to take on the second-highest peak in the lower 48 states, you might as well do it in great company. That’s precisely what we — Matthew Boehm, Michael Coburn, Péter Farkas, Jean-François Gagné, Marcin Gwóźdź, Kenny Gryp, Nando Laudares, and Alexander Rubin — decided to do. Fresh from attending Percona Live in […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/conquering-mt-elbert-after-percona-live-2023-in-denver/feed/ 0 88334 Horizontal Scaling in MySQL – Sharding Followup https://www.percona.com/blog/horizontal-scaling-in-mysql-sharding-followup/ https://www.percona.com/blog/horizontal-scaling-in-mysql-sharding-followup/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:51:58 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=78204 In a previous post, A Horizontal Scalability Mindset for MySQL, I discussed the concerns around growing individual MySQL instances too large and some basic strategies: Optimizing/minimizing size with proper data types Removing unused/duplicate indexes Keeping your Primary Keys small Pruning data Finally, if those methods have been exhausted, I touched on horizontal sharding as the […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/horizontal-scaling-in-mysql-sharding-followup/feed/ 3 78204 Percona Monitoring and Management – MySQL Semi-Sync Summary Dashboard https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-mysql-semi-sync-summary-dashboard/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-mysql-semi-sync-summary-dashboard/#respond Thu, 01 Jul 2021 12:15:21 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=77091 Some of you may use MySQL’s asynchronous replication feature called Semisynchronous Replication (aka semi-sync), and now with the MySQL Semi-Sync Summary Dashboard + Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), you can see the most important metrics! Refer to the Install & Usage steps for deployment details (note you need Replication Set defined!).What is Semisynchronous ReplicationWhen enabled, […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-mysql-semi-sync-summary-dashboard/feed/ 0 77091 Q&A on Webinar “Using PMM to Identify and Troubleshoot Problematic MySQL Queries” https://www.percona.com/blog/qa-on-webinar-using-pmm-to-identify-and-troubleshoot-problematic-mysql-queries/ Wed, 03 Feb 2021 20:25:13 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74258 Hi and thanks to all who attended my webinar on Tuesday, January 26th titled Using PMM to Identify & Troubleshoot Problematic MySQL Queries!Like we do after all our webinars, we compile the list of questions that were answered verbally and also those that were posed yet remained unanswered since we ran out of time during […]]]> 74258 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.0.1 Is Now Available https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-0-1-is-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-0-1-is-now-available/#comments Wed, 09 Oct 2019 19:07:42 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=62660 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring your database performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL®, MariaDB®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible. In this release, […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-0-1-is-now-available/feed/ 2 62660 A Guide to Installing Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)2 For the First Time https://www.percona.com/blog/installing-percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-for-the-first-time/ https://www.percona.com/blog/installing-percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-for-the-first-time/#comments Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:01:38 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=62279 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL®, MongoDB®, and PostgreSQL® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.Please see […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/installing-percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-for-the-first-time/feed/ 22 62279 Manage Your Complex Database Environments with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)2 GA https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-ga-is-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-ga-is-now-available/#comments Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:00:07 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=62267 We are pleased to announce the General Availability of PMM2, our latest software release!Created specifically to support open source software users, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a leading, free, open-source platform that allows you to actively manage and monitor the performance of your MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL database environments.A recent Percona survey revealed that […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-ga-is-now-available/feed/ 4 62267 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2 Beta 7 Is Now Available https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-7-is-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-7-is-now-available/#comments Mon, 09 Sep 2019 20:43:27 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=62064 We are pleased to announce our 7th Beta release of PMM 2! Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. This release includes the following improvements: Query Analytics Filtering panel improvements – now hide unused labels Query details section now shows the percentage […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-7-is-now-available/feed/ 1 62064 Which Indexes are Cached? Discover with PMM. https://www.percona.com/blog/which-indexes-are-cached-discover-with-pmm/ https://www.percona.com/blog/which-indexes-are-cached-discover-with-pmm/#comments Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:52:46 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=61880 One of the great things about working at Percona is the constant innovation that occurs as a result of a deep level of technical expertise. A more recent conversation about the Information Schema table: innodb_cached_indexes led to the desire to produce this information in an easy to digest and useful format. Enter PMM.Our goal with […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/which-indexes-are-cached-discover-with-pmm/feed/ 4 61880 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2 Beta 4 Is Now Available https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-4-is-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-4-is-now-available/#comments Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:33:17 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=59136 We are pleased to announce our 4th Beta release of PMM 2! PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. With this release we’ve made the following improvements since our last public Beta at the end of May: Query Analytics PostgreSQL – Aggregate […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-4-is-now-available/feed/ 3 59136 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2 Beta Is Now Available https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-is-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-is-now-available/#comments Thu, 30 May 2019 13:21:19 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=57365 We are pleased to announce the release of PMM 2 Beta!  PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL performance. Query Analytics: MySQL and MongoDB – Slow log, PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, and Profiler data sources Support for large environments – default view all queries from all instances Filtering – display […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-beta-is-now-available/feed/ 3 57365 Upcoming Webinar 5/16: Monitoring MongoDB with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) https://www.percona.com/blog/monitoring-mongodb-with-percona/ Tue, 14 May 2019 14:18:36 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=57162 Please join Percona’s Product Manager Michael Coburn as he presents his talk Monitoring MongoDB with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) on May 16th, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).View the RecordingLearn how to monitor MongoDB using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) that will allow you to: Gain greater visibility of database […]]]> 57162 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.0.0-alpha2 Is Now Available https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-0-0-alpha2-is-now-available/ Fri, 03 May 2019 21:16:01 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=56932 We are pleased to announce the launch of PMM 2.0.0-alpha2, Percona’s second Alpha release of our long-awaited PMM 2 project! In this release, you’ll find support for MongoDB Metrics and Query Analytics – watch for sharp edges as we expect to find a lot of bugs!  We’ve also expanded our existing support of MySQL from our […]]]> 56932 Watch Webinar: Speaking the same language as Developers and DBAs https://www.percona.com/blog/watch-webinar-speaking-the-same-language-as-developers-and-dbas/ Wed, 01 May 2019 14:00:15 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=56643 Please join, Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn as he presents his talk Speaking the same language as Developers and DBAs.Watch the Recorded WebinarIn this talk, we’ll go over some of the high-level monitoring concepts that PMM enables for you, the CEO, to leverage in order to speak the same language as your technical team. For […]]]> 56643 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.0.0-alpha1 Is Now Available https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-0-0-alpha1-is-now-available/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-0-0-alpha1-is-now-available/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2019 17:19:23 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=56277 We are pleased to announce the launch of PMM 2.0.0-alpha1, Percona’s first Alpha release of our long-awaited PMM 2 project! We focused exclusively on MySQL support in our first Alpha (because we wanted to show progress sooner rather than later), and you’ll find updated MySQL dashboards along with enhancements to Query Analytics. We’ve also added […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-2-0-0-alpha1-is-now-available/feed/ 9 56277 End of Life Announcement for Query Analyzer and MySQL Configuration Generator https://www.percona.com/blog/end-of-life-query-analyzer-and-mysql-configuration-generator/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:52:57 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=56500 Percona will no longer be offering the free services of Query Analyzer and MySQL Configuration Generator hosted at tools.percona.com.  We made this decision based on observed low usage numbers, outdated technology, and lack of support for MySQL 5.7+, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.Although there isn’t a like-for-like replacement available, you might wish to consider the following options, […]]]> 56500 Upcoming Webinar Wed 4/10: Extending and Customizing Percona Monitoring and Management https://www.percona.com/blog/customizing-percona-monitoring-management/ Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:50:41 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=56313 Please join Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn, as he presents his talk Extending and Customizing Percona Monitoring and Management on April 10th, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).View the RecordingDo you already run stock PMM in your environment and want to learn how you extend the PMM platform? If so, […]]]> 56313 Upcoming Webinar Wed 3/27: Monitoring PostgreSQL with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) https://www.percona.com/blog/postgresql-percona-monitoring-management/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:58:00 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=56094 Please join Percona’s Product Manager, Michael Coburn, as he presents his talk Monitoring PostgreSQL with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) on March 27th, 2019 at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).View the RecordingIn this webinar, learn how to monitor PostgreSQL using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) so that you can:Gain greater visibility of […]]]> 56094 Upcoming Webinar Thurs 2/7: Top Trends in Modern Data Architecture for 2019 https://www.percona.com/blog/top-trends-modern-data-architecture-2019/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:36:29 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=55200 Please join Percona’s PMM Product Manager, Michael Coburn for a webinar on The Top Trends in Modern Data Architecture for 2019 hosted by DBTA on Thursday, February 7th at 11:00 AM PST (UTC-8) / 2:00 PM EST (UTC-5).Register NowA strong data architecture strategy is critical to supporting your organization’s data-driven goals. AI and machine learning, data […]]]> 55200 Monitor and Optimize Slow Queries with PMM and EverSQL – Part 2 https://www.percona.com/blog/monitor-and-optimize-slow-queries-with-pmm-and-eversql-part-2/ https://www.percona.com/blog/monitor-and-optimize-slow-queries-with-pmm-and-eversql-part-2/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:17:15 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=55026 EverSQL (use code PERCONA-EVERSQL-10OFF for a 10% discount on the first billing cycle) is a platform that intelligently tunes your SQL queries by providing query optimization recommendations, and feedback on missing indexes. This is the second post of our EverSQL series, if you missed our introductory post take a look there first and then come […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/monitor-and-optimize-slow-queries-with-pmm-and-eversql-part-2/feed/ 2 55026