Mike Grayson, Author at Percona Database Performance Blog Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:41:16 +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 Mike Grayson, Author at Percona Database Performance Blog 32 32 76301791 MongoDB Configuration 101: 5 Configuration Options That Impact Performance and How to Set Them https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-101-5-configuration-options-that-impact-performance-and-how-to-set-them/ https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-101-5-configuration-options-that-impact-performance-and-how-to-set-them/#comments Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:00:15 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=73502 This blog was published in January of 2021 and updated in April of 2024.As with any database platform, MongoDB performance is of paramount importance to keeping your application running quickly.  In this blog post, we’ll show you five configuration options that can impact the performance for your MongoDB Deployment and will help keep your database […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-101-5-configuration-options-that-impact-performance-and-how-to-set-them/feed/ 2 73502 MongoDB Sharding & Replication 101 – The Community’s Questions Answered! https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-sharding-replication-101-the-communitys-questions-answered/ Tue, 09 Feb 2021 13:56:11 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74372 A few weeks ago I sat down and talked about tuning MongoDB memory settings with Mike Grayson, one of our MongoDB Database Engineers here at Percona. If you have not seen the video I would recommend it.  Since then I have heard from people in the community about other topics they would like to see.  […]]]> 74372 Achieving a More Secure MongoDB with Percona Monitoring and Management’s Security Tool https://www.percona.com/blog/achieving-a-more-secure-mongodb-with-percona-monitoring-and-managements-security-tool/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:34:59 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74036 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 that in addition to all that, it also has a security threat tool?  In this blog, we’ll go […]]]> 74036 Getting Started with MongoDB in OpenShift Using the Percona Operator for MongoDB https://www.percona.com/blog/getting-started-with-mongodb-in-openshift-using-the-percona-server-for-mongodb-kubernetes-operator/ Fri, 22 Jan 2021 17:42:21 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=74032 Kubernetes has become an integral part of many architectures and has continued to rise in popularity.  Kubernetes is an open source platform for managing containerized workloads and services.  One approach to running Kubernetes is Redhat’s OpenShift.  OpenShift is RedHat’s name for its family of containerization products.  The main part of OpenShift and the product we’ll […]]]> 74032 MongoDB 101: How to Tune Your MongoDB Configuration After Upgrading to More Memory https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-101-how-to-tune-your-mongodb-configuration-after-upgrading-to-more-memory/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:55:39 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=73550 In this post, we will be discussing what to do when you add more memory to your MongoDB deployment, a common practice when you are scaling resources.Why Might You Need to Add More Memory?Scaling resources is a way of adding more resources to your environment.  There are two main ways this can be accomplished: vertical […]]]> 73550 PMM 101: Troubleshooting MongoDB with Percona Monitoring and Management https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-101-troubleshooting-mongodb-with-percona-monitoring-and-management/ https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-101-troubleshooting-mongodb-with-percona-monitoring-and-management/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2020 16:06:07 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=72092 Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source tool developed by Percona that allows you to monitor and manage your MongoDB, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases.  This blog will give you an overview of troubleshooting your MongoDB deployments with PMM.Let’s start with a basic understanding of the architecture of PMM. PMM has two main architectural components: […]]]> https://www.percona.com/blog/pmm-101-troubleshooting-mongodb-with-percona-monitoring-and-management/feed/ 3 72092 5 Things Developers Should Know Before Deploying MongoDB https://www.percona.com/blog/5-things-developers-should-know-before-deploying-mongodb/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 13:27:12 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=72065 MongoDB is one of the most popular databases and is one of the easiest NoSQL databases to set up. Oftentimes, developers want a quick environment to just test out an idea they have for an application or to try and figure out a good data model for their data without waiting for their Operations team […]]]> 72065 5 Things DBAs Should Know Before Deploying MongoDB https://www.percona.com/blog/dbas-should-know-before-deploying-mongodb/ Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:08:58 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=72063 MongoDB is one of the most popular databases and is one of the easiest NoSQL databases to set up for a DBA.  Oftentimes, relational DBAs will inherit MongoDB databases without knowing all there is to know about MongoDB.   I encourage you to check out our Percona blogs as we have lots of great information […]]]> 72063 MongoDB 101: 5 Configuration Options That Impact Security (And How to Set Them) https://www.percona.com/blog/mongodb-101-5-configuration-options-that-impact-security-and-how-to-set-them/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:03:40 +0000 https://www.percona.com/blog/?p=71384 As with any database platform, MongoDB security is of paramount importance to keeping your data safe.  MongoDB and other data platforms like Redis and Elasticsearch are often in the news for data breaches because of misconfigured settings in the database.  So how do you keep you and your company’s data from being compromised and from […]]]> 71384