by Roman Vynar | Dec 12, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.7.The Percona Monitoring and Management Server (PMM) is distributed through Docker Hub, PMM Client – through tarball or system packages. The instructions for installing or upgrading PMM are... by Roman Vynar | Dec 9, 2016 | MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.7.Changelog New Nagios script pmp-check-mongo.py for MongoDB. Added MySQL socket and flag options to Cacti PHP script. Added disk volume check on “Mounted on” in addition to... by Roman Vynar | Oct 25, 2016 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Percona Software
This article describes how to visualize and monitor OS metrics for Amazon RDS instances using Grafana. We use CloudWatch as a data source, and Grafana to query CloudWatch API in real-time to get data. The setup instructions include just four quick steps (assuming... by Roman Vynar | Oct 14, 2016 | Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.5.PMM Server is distributed through Docker Hub, PMM Client – through tarball or system packages. The instructions for installing or upgrading PMM are available in the... by Roman Vynar | Sep 23, 2016 | MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Identifying and Solving Database Performance Issues with PMM webinar.First, I want to thank everybody for attending the September 15 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here.... by Roman Vynar | Sep 7, 2016 | MySQL, Security
This post will tell you how to get MySQL passwords in plain text using the .mylogin.cnf file.Since MySQL 5.6.6, it became possible to store MySQL credentials in an encrypted login path file named .mylogin.cnf, using the by Roman Vynar | May 26, 2016 | Monitoring
Percona has released a new Percona App for Grafana!Are you using Grafana 3.x with Prometheus’ time-series database? Now there is a “Percona App” available on Grafana.net! The app provides a set of dashboards for MySQL performance and system... by Roman Vynar | Feb 29, 2016 | Monitoring, MySQL
This post explains how you can quickly start using such trending tools as Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring and graphing of MySQL and system performance.Update, February 20, 2017: Since this blog post was published, we have released Percona Monitoring and... by Roman Vynar | Jan 12, 2016 | Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.6.Changelog: Added new RDS instance classes to RDS scripts. Added boto profile support to RDS scripts. Added AWS region support and ability to specify all regions to RDS scripts. Added ability... by Roman Vynar | Jun 22, 2015 | Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.5.Changelog:Added more DB instance classes to pmp-check-aws-rds.py (issue 1398911) Added configurable query period and average time to pmp-check-aws-rds.py (issue 1436943) Added region support... by Roman Vynar | Jan 7, 2015 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
This is yet another story of Django web-framework with time zone support and pain dealing with python datetimes and MySQL on the backend. In other words, offset-naive vs offset-aware datetimes.Shortly, more about the problem. After reading the official documentation... by Roman Vynar | Jul 21, 2014 | Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.4.Changelog:* Added login-path support to Nagios plugins with MySQL client 5.6 (bug 1338549) * Added a new threshold option for delayed slaves to pmp-check-mysql-replication-delay (bug 1318280)... by Roman Vynar | Mar 21, 2014 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.3.Changelog:* Introduced more secure location of PHP script configs to harden a Cacti setup * Addressed CVE-2014-2569We have introduced a more secure location /etc/cacti/ for PHP script configs.... by Roman Vynar | Mar 19, 2014 | Security
If you are using Percona Monitoring Plugins for Cacti, this article should be important to you.By default, the Cacti setup is closed from accessing from Web. Here is an excerpt from /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf: # httpd 2.4 Require host localhost # httpd 2.2 Order... by Roman Vynar | Mar 14, 2014 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of RDS metrics from Amazon CloudWatch. With Nagios you can have the following checks per instance: RDS Status, RDS Load Average, RDS Free Storage, RDS Free Memory. Also check out the examples of Configuration Best Practices... by Roman Vynar | Dec 30, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.1 to address the critical bug that appears after the 1.1 upgrade.Changelog: * Cacti mysql graphs stop working with data input field “server-id” after 1.1 upgrade (bug 1264814) * Non-integer... by Roman Vynar | Dec 18, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios, Cacti and Zabbix, and are delivered in the form of templates, plugins, and scripts.In this... by Roman Vynar | Oct 11, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.5 for MySQL. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios and Cacti, and are delivered in the form of templates, plugins, and... by Roman Vynar | Sep 16, 2013 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Working day to day with Percona Remote DBA customers, we have been facing an issue from time to time when MySQL replication lag is flapping between 0 and XXXXX constantly – i.e. Seconds_Behind_Master is 0 for a few secs, then it’s like 6287 or 25341, again... by Roman Vynar | Jul 25, 2013 | MySQL, Percona Events, Percona Software
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.4. The components are designed to integrate seamlessly with widely deployed solutions such as Nagios and Cacti, and are delivered in the form of templates, plugins, and scripts.Changelog: *... 
