by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Dec 20, 2021 | Monitoring, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
The recent release of Percona Monitoring and Management 2.25.0 (PMM) includes a fix for bug PMM-6937: before that, PMM expected all monitoring connections to PostgreSQL servers to be made using the default postgres database. This worked well for most deployments,... by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 14, 2021 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
A few weeks ago we did a live stream talking about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and showcased some of the fun things we were doing at the OSS Summit. During the live stream, we tried to enable some custom queries to track the number of comments being... by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Jul 7, 2021 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In the previous posts of this series, I presented how the Percona Support team approaches the analysis and troubleshooting of a MySQL server using a tried-and-tested method supported by specific tools found in the Percona Toolkit:Inspecting MySQL Servers Part 1: The... by Ivan Groenewold | Jun 14, 2021 | MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) recently introduced the Integrated Alerting feature as a technical preview. This was a very eagerly awaited feature, as PMM doesn’t need to integrate with an external alerting system anymore. Recently we blogged about the... by Sergey Kuzmichev | Apr 29, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Nothing lasts forever, including hardware running your EC2 instances. You will usually receive an advance warning on hardware degradation and subsequent instance retirement, but sometimes hardware fails unexpectedly. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) currently... by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 28, 2021 | Monitoring, Percona Software
One way to run Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v2 on Windows is using the Virtual Appliance installation method. It works well but requires you to run extra software to run Virtual Appliances, such as Oracle VirtualBox, VMWare Workstation Player, etc. Or, you... by Daniil Bazhenov | Apr 27, 2021 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Events, Percona Software
We’re leveling up – would you like to join us on Discord? There we chat about databases, open source, and even play together.On May 6th at 11 am EST, the Percona Community is talking about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). Our experts are also there... by Artem Gavrilov | Apr 16, 2021 | Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.13 (PMM) introduced the Integrated Alerting feature as a technical preview. It adds a user-friendly way to set up and manage alerts for your databases. You can read more about this feature usage in our announcement blog post, while... by Mike Grayson | Jan 26, 2021 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a great way to monitor your MongoDB deployment for things like memory, CPU, inter-database metrics like wiredTiger cache utilization, read/write ticket utilization, Query Analytics, and many, many more. Did you know... by Puneet Kala | Dec 23, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v2.12.0 comes with a lot of improvements and one of the most talked-about is the usage of VictoriaMetricsDB. The reason we are doing this comparison is that PMM 2.12.0 is a release in which we integrate VictoriaMetricsDB and... by Corrado Pandiani | Dec 9, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
Whichever way you installed Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM2), using the docker image or an OVF image for your supported virtualized environment, PMM2 enables, by default, two ports for the web connections: 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS. Using HTTPS... by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Oct 7, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Visibility is a blessing, and with databases, visibility is a must. That’s true not only for metrics but for the queries themselves. Having info on all the stats around query execution is priceless, and Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) offers that in the... by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | 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 Peter Zaitsev | Jul 15, 2020 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
When I speak about MySQL performance troubleshooting (or frankly any other database), I tend to speak about four primary resources which typically end up being a bottleneck and limiting system performance: CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network.It would be great if when... by Fernando Laudares Camargos | Jun 23, 2020 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
by Carlos Salguero | Jun 10, 2020 | Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Even though Percona Monitoring and Management 2 (PMM) comes with a lot of dashboards and metrics out of the box, sometimes we need to extend the default metrics by running custom MySQL queries.For example, suppose you want to have information about cached indexes from... by Andrii Skomorokhov | Apr 13, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
Django is a fantastic tool to quickly create an admin dashboard for managing entities. But the magic of brevity oftentimes comes at the expense of suboptimal performance. The Django ORM is a coin with two sides. It simplifies work with complex datasets and... by Alexey Palazhchenko | Mar 23, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management 2.4.0 (PMM), released several days ago, added support for custom extensions of the Prometheus configuration file. Before explaining what that is and how to use it, let me tell you a bit of history.PMM 1.4.0, released 2.5 years ago,... by Alexey Palazhchenko | Mar 12, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
My boss asked me if there is a way to wait for the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Server container to be fully ready so his automation script can start adding monitoring instances. I wanted to give him a general solution, not a PMM-specific one. Turned out,... by Terri Schlosser | Feb 26, 2020 | Monitoring, Percona Software
As a new member of the Percona team, one of the first things I was interested in understanding was our software adoption. I decided to take a look at the information we have about adoption (instances running) of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and found...