Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:58:45 +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 32 32 76301791 https://www.percona.com/blog/postgresql-monitoring-with-percona-monitoring-and-management-a-redefined-summary/ https://www.percona.com/blog/postgresql-monitoring-with-percona-monitoring-and-management-a-redefined-summary/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:58:45 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=95168 When checking for how good (or bad) a PostgreSQL instance is behaving, one just wants to see everything that matters on a single-ish page. That’s what the new summary dashboard in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is achieving: So, what is “everything that matters”? It goes like this: Is my database ALIVE (in other words: […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/postgresql-monitoring-with-percona-monitoring-and-management-a-redefined-summary/feed/ 0 95168 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-database-overview-dashboard-simplified/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-database-overview-dashboard-simplified/#respond Tue, 19 Mar 2024 14:42:59 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=95155 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) overview dashboards were always meant to be a starting point for DBAs to check the overall health of the databases. Current overview dashboards can be a little overwhelming, based on an approach of “full visibility.” Now, we present a redesigned dashboard focused on simplicity:Where is the simplicity coming from? At first, […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-database-overview-dashboard-simplified/feed/ 0 95155 https://www.percona.com/blog/simplify-use-of-env-variables-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-ami/ https://www.percona.com/blog/simplify-use-of-env-variables-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-ami/#respond Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:26:41 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=93723 The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) currently lacks native support for ENV variables. In this guide, we’ll walk through a straightforward workaround that simplifies the process of using ENV variables in PMM AMI and reapplying them after an upgrade.Step one: Adding ENV variables to /srv/.envBegin by consolidating your ENV variables in […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/simplify-use-of-env-variables-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-ami/feed/ 0 93723 https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-dump-gui-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-2-41-0/ https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-dump-gui-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-2-41-0/#respond Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:57:29 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=93082 A couple of weeks ago, we announced the first GA release of the PMM Dump: a new support tool that dumps Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) metrics and Query Analytics (QAN) data to transfer to the expert engineer for review and performance suggestions. That blog introduced a command-line interface. A week later, PMM 2.0.41.0 was […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-dump-gui-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-2-41-0/feed/ 0 93082 https://www.percona.com/blog/how-to-filter-or-customize-alert-notifications-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-subject-and-body/ https://www.percona.com/blog/how-to-filter-or-customize-alert-notifications-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-subject-and-body/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:31:19 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=92233 In many scenarios, the standard alert notification template in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), while comprehensive, may not align perfectly with specific operational needs. This often leads to an excess of details in the notification’s “Subject” and “Body”, cluttering your inbox with information that may not be immediately relevant. The focus today is on tailoring […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/how-to-filter-or-customize-alert-notifications-in-percona-monitoring-and-management-subject-and-body/feed/ 0 92233 https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-capacity-planning/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-capacity-planning/#comments Tue, 08 Aug 2023 12:02:15 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=90004 As businesses grow and develop, the requirements that they have for their data platform grow along with it. As such, one of the more common questions I get from my clients is whether or not their system will be able to endure an anticipated load increase. Or worse yet, sometimes I get questions about regaining […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mysql-capacity-planning/feed/ 2 90004 https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-fixed-in-2-37-1/ https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-fixed-in-2-37-1/#respond Mon, 05 Jun 2023 17:59:49 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=88305 On May 30, Percona was notified of a possible vulnerability in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). After researching the report, we agreed with the reporter and began working on a fix to address the issue. Today we’re releasing PMM 2.37.1 with a fix that addresses the PMM authentication bypass vulnerability. This release contains no other […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-fixed-in-2-37-1/feed/ 0 88305 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-and-datadog-integration/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-and-datadog-integration/#respond Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:32:05 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=87126 So your company is using Datadog on the global level. Still, as DBA, you want to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for better database insights and maintain a common policy of Datadog as a standard alerting or high-level observability tool.Percona Monitoring and Management is not intended to replace Datadog; rather, they work better together. […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-and-datadog-integration/feed/ 0 87126 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-2-scaling-and-capacity-planning/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-2-scaling-and-capacity-planning/#respond Fri, 17 Mar 2023 12:22:24 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=86173 2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). We’ve added and improved many features, including Alerting and Backup Management. These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as companies grow and see more demand for their databases, we need to ensure that PMM also […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-2-scaling-and-capacity-planning/feed/ 0 86173 https://www.percona.com/blog/latest-release-of-percona-monitoring-and-management-2.33 https://www.percona.com/blog/latest-release-of-percona-monitoring-and-management-2.33#respond Mon, 19 Dec 2022 13:03:11 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=84217 We are excited to announce the latest release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – V2.33. This release includes several new features and improvements that make PMM even more effective and user-friendly. Some of the key highlights of PMM V2.33 include: Offline metric collection during PMM server outages or loss of PMM client-server network connectivity […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/latest-release-of-percona-monitoring-and-management-2.33/feed/ 0 84217 https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-32-backup-management-for-mongodb-in-ga-new-home-dashboard-and-more/ https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-32-backup-management-for-mongodb-in-ga-new-home-dashboard-and-more/#respond Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:03:53 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=83595 We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Backup Management for MongoDB and other improvements in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v.2.32 that has been released in November 2022. Details are in this blog and also in the PMM 2.32 Release Notes.PMM is now on the scene with a new Home Dashboard where […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-32-backup-management-for-mongodb-in-ga-new-home-dashboard-and-more/feed/ 0 83595 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-home-dashboard-whats-new/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-home-dashboard-whats-new/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2022 12:01:04 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82658 The all-new Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Home dashboard is the answer to some of the main concerns of our users: A clear entry point (where do I start?) Context (is everything okay?) How did we achieve this? By coming up with a redesign of the Home dashboard so we can tackle the known performance […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-home-dashboard-whats-new/feed/ 1 82658 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-private-dbaas-api-in-action/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-private-dbaas-api-in-action/#respond Tue, 06 Sep 2022 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82469 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) comes with Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality that allows you to deploy highly-available databases through a simple user interface and API. PMM DBaaS is sort of unique for various reasons: It is fully open source and free It runs on your premises – your data center or public cloud […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-private-dbaas-api-in-action/feed/ 0 82469 https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-30-new-dashboards-improved-dbaas-experience-free-k8s-cluster-for-testing-and-more/ https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-30-new-dashboards-improved-dbaas-experience-free-k8s-cluster-for-testing-and-more/#respond Fri, 02 Sep 2022 13:04:28 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82454 In this v2.30 release, we have focused on improving Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for usability, refining the dashboards (effortless root cause analysis), Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality, and seamless onboarding to align with your needs. Your valuable feedback along with your contributions is important to us. Please keep contributing to take PMM to […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-v2-30-new-dashboards-improved-dbaas-experience-free-k8s-cluster-for-testing-and-more/feed/ 0 82454 https://www.percona.com/blog/installing-pmm-server-from-rhel-repositories/ https://www.percona.com/blog/installing-pmm-server-from-rhel-repositories/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2022 11:15:12 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=82281 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 Managementor Podman:Podman – Percona Monitoring and ManagementWe implemented it this way to simplify deployments, as the PMM server uses multiple components like Nginx, Grafana, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, etc. So we want […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/installing-pmm-server-from-rhel-repositories/feed/ 2 82281 https://www.percona.com/blog/how-percona-monitoring-and-management-helps-you-find-out-why-your-mysql-server-is-stalling/ https://www.percona.com/blog/how-percona-monitoring-and-management-helps-you-find-out-why-your-mysql-server-is-stalling/#respond Wed, 13 Jul 2022 13:45:26 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=81760 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 principles will help you in all other cases.Nobody wants […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/how-percona-monitoring-and-management-helps-you-find-out-why-your-mysql-server-is-stalling/feed/ 0 81760 https://www.percona.com/blog/automate-the-ssl-certificate-lifecycle-percona-monitoring-and-management-server/ https://www.percona.com/blog/automate-the-ssl-certificate-lifecycle-percona-monitoring-and-management-server/#respond Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:08:36 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=81480 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.IntroductionAs you may know, PMM Server provides a self-signed SSL certificate out-of-the-box to encrypt traffic between the client […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/automate-the-ssl-certificate-lifecycle-percona-monitoring-and-management-server/feed/ 0 81480 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-in-kubernetes-is-now-in-tech-preview/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-in-kubernetes-is-now-in-tech-preview/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2022 12:25:12 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=81308 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 that scary anymore. Our Kubernetes story at Percona started with Operators for MySQL and MongoDB, […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-monitoring-and-management-in-kubernetes-is-now-in-tech-preview/feed/ 1 81308 https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-platform-and-percona-account-benefits/ https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-platform-and-percona-account-benefits/#respond Mon, 06 Jun 2022 11:37:24 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=81169 On the 15th of April, Percona introduced the general availability of Percona Platform, and with that step, our company started a new, interesting period.Popular questions we have received after this date include:  What is Percona Platform, and how does it differ from Pecona Account?  What is the difference between Percona Platform and Percona Portal?  Why […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/percona-platform-and-percona-account-benefits/feed/ 0 81169 https://www.percona.com/blog/monitoring-mongodb-collection-stats-with-percona-monitoring-and-management/ https://www.percona.com/blog/monitoring-mongodb-collection-stats-with-percona-monitoring-and-management/#respond Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:51:03 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=80156 One approach to get to know a MongoDB system we are not familiar with is to start by checking the busiest collections. MongoDB provides the top administrative command for this purpose.From the mongo shell, we can run db.adminCommand(“top”) to get a snapshot of all the collections at a specific point in time: [crayon-664cb573af5b9781498769/] In the […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/monitoring-mongodb-collection-stats-with-percona-monitoring-and-management/feed/ 0 80156