by Steve Hoffman | Jul 3, 2023 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
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... by Steve Hoffman | Mar 4, 2022 | Cloud, Database Trends, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
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... by Steve Hoffman | Dec 1, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
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... by Steve Hoffman | Oct 22, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
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... by Steve Hoffman | 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 Steve Hoffman | Jul 7, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
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... by Steve Hoffman | Apr 7, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
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... by Steve Hoffman | Feb 21, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
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,...