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Percona Monitoring and Management Migration from Prometheus to...
Starting with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 2.12, we use VictoriaMetrics instead of Prometheus as a metrics store. This blog is written as an FAQ to explain our reasoning for this change as...
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Let’s Try Something New: Percona Open Source Expert Missions!
Hello everyone! I wanted to outline a new program we are trying out. We are calling it, Percona Open Source Expert Missions. So, you might be asking… What the heck is that? An Expert Mission is a...
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Percona Monitoring and Management Introduces “Integrated Alerting” in v2.13...
As strange as it sounds, there are types of software applications that are designed for users to NOT spend each minute of every day within the application (where the goal of so many software...
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Percona Distributions for MySQL and PostgreSQL, Percona XtraBackup: 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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Amazon RDS for MySQL 5.5 EOL Date is Approaching – Act Now!
As mentioned in the AWS discussion forum back in October, Amazon has started the end of life (EOL) process for RDS MySQL version 5.5. What this means is: AWS will upgrade RDS instances to MySQL 5.7...
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Redesign of –lock-ddl-per-table in Percona XtraBackup
MySQL 5.7, alongside other many improvements, brought bulk load for creating an index (WL#7277 to be specific), which made ADD INDEX operations much faster by disabling redo logging and making the...
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Observations on Better Resource Usage with Percona Monitoring and Management...
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...
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Percona XtraBackup: Introducing Support For Storage Class in xbcloud
A lot of elements take part in a good backup strategy. Two of them are: Where to store your backups – Never on the same server. Preferable not in the same datacenter. Ideally far enough so you can...
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Tech Previews in Percona Monitoring and Management, Percona Distribution for...
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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PostgreSQL Database Security: What You Need To Know
When we are talking about database security, it encompasses different modules of different areas. It is a very vast topic because, with databases, we need need to secure the whole ecosystem, not just...
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Percona Monthly Bug Report: December 2020
Here at Percona, we operate on the premise that full-transparency makes a product better. We strive to build the best open-source database products, but also to help you manage any issues that arise in...
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Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB Webinar Q&A
We had great attendance, questions, and feedback from our “Converting MongoDB to Percona Server for MongoDB” webinar, which was recorded and can be viewed here. You can view another Q&A from a...
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TAM Enterprise Experiences – Troubleshooting Methodology
One of the great things about being a Technical Account Manager (TAM, for short) at Percona is having the opportunity to see a wide variety of issues across many clients, and having the space to...
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MongoDB 101: 5 Configuration Options That Impact Performance and How to Set Them
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...
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Webinar January 20: MariaDB Observability
Don’t miss out! Join Peter Zaitsev, Percona CEO, as he discusses MariaDB observability! A broken MariaDB means a broken application, so maintaining insights in MariaDB operational performance is...
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One Shard Support in Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB
So far, Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB) has supported only managing replica sets, but from version 1.6.0 it is possible to start a sharding cluster, although at the...
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Google Cloud Platform: MySQL at Scale with Reliable HA Webinar Q&A
Earlier in November, we had a chance to present the “Google Cloud Platform: MySQL at Scale with Reliable HA.” We discussed different approaches to hosting MySQL in Google Cloud Platform with the...
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Webinar January 19: Maximize the Benefits of Using Open Source MongoDB with...
Many organizations require an Enterprise subscription of MongoDB for the support coverage and additional features that it provides. However, many are unaware that there is an open source alternative...
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PostgreSQL: DB-Engines.com’s Database of the Year
For the third time in the last five years, PostgreSQL took home the Database of the Year award from DB-Engines. If you have not checked out DB-Engines before, they track databases’ popularity by...
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TAM Enterprise Experiences – Data Encryption
In previous TAM Enterprise Experiences posts, we have outlined typical aspects of utilizing MySQL in an Enterprise environment. One thing we have not yet covered is the topic of database encryption,...
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