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Add Microsoft Azure Monitoring Within Percona Monitoring and Management 2.16.0
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database is among the most popular databases of 2020, according to DB-Engine’s DBMS of the Year award. Also, it’s steadily climbing up in DB-Engines Ranking. The ranking is...
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Integrated Alerting Design in Percona Monitoring and Management
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...
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MySQL Group Replication: Conversion of GR Member to Async Replica (and Back)...
MySQL Group Replication is a plugin that helps to implement highly available fault-tolerant replication topologies. In this blog, I am going to explain the complete steps involved in the below two...
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Change Storage Class on Kubernetes on the Fly
Percona Kubernetes Operators support various options for storage: Persistent Volume (PV), hostPath, ephemeral storage, etc. In most of the cases, PVs are used, which are provisioned by the Operator...
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Back From a Long Sleep, MyDumper Lives!
MySQL databases keep getting larger and larger. And the larger the databases get, the harder it is to backup and restore them. MyDumper has changed the way that we perform logical backups to enable...
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Percona Live ONLINE: Keynotes Now Live!
The full keynotes schedule for Percona Live ONLINE 2021, taking place on May 12-13, is now live online! Attracting thousands of attendees from around the globe, Percona Live is the longest-running,...
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Demonstrating pg_rewind Using Linux Containers in PostgreSQL
These scripts demonstrate the command line interface, CLI, “pg_rewind” re-provisioning a formerly deprecated PRIMARY host, pg1, into a viable STANDBY. Although the scripts have been written expressly...
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Understanding Processes Running on Linux Host with Percona Monitoring and...
A few years ago, I wrote about how to add information about processes to your Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) instance as well as some helpful ways you can use this data. Since that time, PMM...
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Yearly Reminder: DDLs That Fail to Propagate May Cause Percona XtraDB Cluster...
Apologies for the silly title, but the issue is a real one, even though it is not a new thing. Schema upgrades are not an ordinary operation in Galera. For the subject at hand, the bottom line is:...
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Tons of New Features in Percona Monitoring and Management 2.16.0, Updated...
It’s release roundup time again 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...
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MySQL 101: 10 Great MySQL DBA Interview Questions (and Answers)
DBAs are important cogs in the availability, performance, and security of your data. Getting a great DBA is one of the most important things any company can do to ensure their database operations...
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Percona Monitoring and Management Meetup on May 6th: Join Us for Live Tuning...
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...
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Percona Monthly Bug Report: April 2021
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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Running Percona Monitoring and Management v2 on Windows with Docker
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,...
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Resolving the MySQL Active-Active Replication Dilemma
Multi-writer replication has been a challenge in the MySQL ecosystem for years before truly dedicated solutions were introduced – first Galera (and so Percona XtradDB Cluster (PXC)) replication (around...
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Compiling Percona XtraBackup for ARM
This blog post will show how to compile the Percona XtraBackup (PXB) tool for ARM. For this, we are going to use an AWS EC2 ARM instance with Ubuntu 20.04(Focal Fossa). The motivation for this was born...
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Percona Live ONLINE: How Companies Manage Customer & Data Volume Rises While...
The latest schedule for Percona Live ONLINE 2021, taking place on May 12-13, allows you to filter by track to identify the sessions that interest you most! The conference takes place May 12-13 and...
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Improving Percona Monitoring and Management EC2 Instance Resilience Using...
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...
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Changes to Percona Monitoring and Management on AWS Marketplace
Percona Monitoring and Management has been available for single-click deployment from AWS Marketplace for several years now, and we have hundreds of instances concurrently active and growing rapidly...
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InnoDB File Growth Weirdness
There is a common pattern in life, you often discover or understand things by accident. Many scientific discoveries fit such a description. In our database world, I was looking to see how BLOB/TEXT...
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