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Demultiplexing Fix for Percona Backup for MongoDB, Redesign...
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and...
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Impact of Percona Monitoring and Management “Get Latest” Command Change
In the first quarter of 2021 (expected late January), Percona is slated to release a version of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v2 that will include all of the critical functionality users of...
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Recover Percona XtraDB Cluster in Kubernetes From Wrong MySQL Config
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster serves the purpose, but also provides users the...
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Uncommon Sense MySQL – When EXPLAIN Can Trash Your Database
If I ask you if running EXPLAIN on the query can change your database, you will probably tell me NO; it is common sense. EXPLAIN should show us how the query is executed, not execute the query, hence...
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Webinar December 15: The Open Source Alternative to Paying for MongoDB
Please join Barrett Chambers, Percona Solutions Engineer, for an engaging webinar on MongoDB vs. Open Source. Many organizations require Enterprise subscriptions for the coverage and features that it...
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Support for Percona XtraDB Cluster in ProxySQL (Part One)
How native ProxySQL stands in failover support (both v2.0.15 and v2.1.0) In recent times I have been designing several solutions focused on High Availability and Disaster Recovery. Some of them using...
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Support for Percona XtraDB Cluster in ProxySQL (Part Two)
How scheduler and script stand in supporting failover (Percona and Marco example) In part one of this series, I had illustrated how simple scenarios may fail or have problems when using Galera...
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How pgBackRest is Addressing Slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving Using Asynchronous...
In one of my previous blog posts, Why PostgreSQL WAL Archival is Slow, I tried to explain three of the major design limitations of PostgreSQL’s WAL archiver which is not so great for a database with...
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Foiled by the Firewall: A Tale of Transition From Prometheus to VictoriaMetrics
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....
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Enabling jemalloc on Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 and 8.0 Series
The benefits of jemalloc versus glibc memory allocator for use with MySQL have been widely discussed. With jemalloc (along with Transparent Huge Pages disabled) there is less memory fragmentation, and...
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Swag for Review: Special Winter Set for Percona MongoDB Products
We continue to give away exclusive Percona swag for your honest reviews about our products. Today we are glad to announce a special winter set that works for the reviews on specific products. Percona...
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How to Configure MySQL SSL With Public Certificates
Getting MySQL working with self-signed SSL certificates is pretty simple. Having it working with a certificate signed by a trusted authority is also very simple, we just need to set the correct path...
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Running MongoDB on Amazon EKS Distro
Last year AWS was about to ban the “multi-cloud” term in co-branding guides for Partners, removed the ban after community and partners critique, and now embraces multi-cloud strategy. One of the...
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Not Ready to Give Up MySQL 5.6? Get Post EOL Support from Percona!
As you may know, MySQL 5.6 will reach EOL (“End of Life”) in February 2021. This means in about two months, there will be no more updates, and more importantly, no more security fixes for discovered...
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VictoriaMetrics in PMM, Percona Server for MongoDB Version Updates: Release...
It’s release roundup time here at Percona! Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and deploy our software. It offers highlights and...
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Enabling HTTPS Connections to Percona Monitoring and Management Using Custom...
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...
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Matt’s Big, Bold, Open Source Predictions for 2021
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on most aspects of our lives in 2020. Although some companies saw unexpected growth due to offering in-demand tools or services, I think most of us will be happy...
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The Hidden Magic of Configuring Percona Repositories With a percona-release...
How do you install an application? Nowadays a lot of companies want to use the latest technology and more and more of them are moving infrastructure to clouds. And in order to simplify maintenance,...
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How to Use Prometheus Recording Rules With Percona Monitoring and Management
If you’re building custom dashboards for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), chances are you would like to use Prometheus recording rules for better performance. In the nutshell, recording rules...
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MySQL Shell 8.0.22: Data Export/Import Utilities Tested with MySQL 8/5.7/5.6
MySQL Shell is an advanced client tool that has many features and is easy to use. The recent MySQL release (MySQL 8.0.22) has the utility “exportTable()”, which supports exporting the data into a file...
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