Percona

JULY 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since June 26, 2023.

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Percona

JUNE 26, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since June 12, 2023.

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Percona

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this post, I will present a new Percona tool: Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Dump. The PMM Dump performs a logical backup of the performance metrics collected by the PMM Server and imports them into a different PMM Server instance. First General Availability version of PMM Dump was released on November 22, 2023.

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Monitoring Metrics Analytics Open Source 93

Percona

AUGUST 21, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since August 7, 2023.

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Open Source AWS Servers Database 81

Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since October 31, 2023.

Innovation 83

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Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since September 18, 2023.

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Percona

JANUARY 2, 2024

Managing database servers involves different aspects, among which security is critical. However, we know having a “runaway” grant is always a possibility, especially in environments with a large number of servers. Fortunately, in Percona Server for MySQL , this feature is free to use. How does it work?

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Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since November 13, 2023.

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Open Source Azure Servers Programming 77

Percona

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since February 13, 2023. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.35

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Monitoring Open Source Database Software 68

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since May 29, 2023.

Open Source 81

Open Source Servers Database Scalability 81

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since July 24, 2023.

Open Source 83

Open Source Scalability Servers Database 83

Percona

AUGUST 4, 2023

Percona has bundled together some great open source pieces of software to create Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), a very flexible and powerful monitoring solution. If you have deployed PMM, chances are you have an application using a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL. Download Percona Monitoring and Management Today

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Monitoring Open Source Database Metrics 74

Percona

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since September 4, 2023.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this blog post, we will go through the process of InnoDB buffer pool resizing online, covering why it is important to monitor its progress and how to monitor it. Importance of monitoring the InnoDB buffer pool resize Since MySQL 5.7.5, This status variable reports a string value indicating buffer pool resizing progress.

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Monitoring Code Open Source Cache 84

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 13, 2023. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.36

Open Source 76

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Percona

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since January 30, 2023. was released on February 9, 2023.

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Open Source Database Servers Scalability 81

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Monitoring SAP products can present challenges Monitoring SAP systems can be challenging due to the inherent complexity of using different technologies—such as ABAP, Java, and cloud offerings—and the sheer amount of generated data. SAP HANA server infrastructure monitored with OneAgent.

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Percona

JULY 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since July 10, 2023.

Open Source 71

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Percona

MAY 29, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since May 8, 2023.

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Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll check how to integrate Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) with Loki to be able to get not only metrics and queries from our database servers but also text-based information like logs. Promtail will be in charge of reading the log files and sending new information to the Loki server.

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Percona

JUNE 15, 2023

Sometimes we might need to install/upgrade Percona Server for MySQL /MySQL 8 to a particular version in a test or production environment. Install Percona Server for MySQL 8 specific version packages via repository. Download specific Percona Server for MySQL 8 tarball packages and install them manually. bullseye amd64 1.7

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Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

[mysql@percona-client /]$ mysql -h minimal-cluster-pxc -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Your MySQL connection id is 256 Server version: 8.0.32-24.2 Copyright (c) 2009-2023 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. Commands end with ; or g.

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Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

Still, as DBA, you want to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for better database insights and maintain a common policy of Datadog as a standard alerting or high-level observability tool. Percona Monitoring and Management is not intended to replace Datadog; rather, they work better together. openmetrics.d/conf.yaml

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Monitoring Metrics Database Open Source 69

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

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Open Source Database Hardware Strategy 89

Percona

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

PostgreSQL is a powerful and popular open source relational database management system. Ensuring the safety of your PostgreSQL data through regular backups is an important concern for database administrators. The /etc/pgbackrest/pgbackrest.conf file contains crucial information related to our primary database server.

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Percona

AUGUST 18, 2023

Why do you need multiple instances on the same server? Why not just create another database on the same instance? You can have a host with two or three instances configured as a delayed replica of the source server with SQL Delay of, let’s say, 24hr, 12hr, and 6/3hrs. ln -s /usr/local/Percona-Server-8.0.19-10-Linux.x86_64.ssl101/

Programming 83

Programming Servers Database Hardware 83

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

With that, we could make use of the full set of OpenTelemetry’s features to instrument and monitor our applications in the Dynatrace back end, including traces with spans and metrics. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace. And that’s where Dynatrace OneAgent comes in.

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Metrics Monitoring Database Network 176

Percona

OCTOBER 11, 2023

There are a couple of third-party tools in the market to migrate data from Atlas to Pecona Server for MongoDB (PSMDB), like MongoPush, Hummingbird, and MongoShake. Below is the sample log when you start MongoShake: [2023/09/25 21:09:13 UTC] [INFO] New session to mongodb+srv://gautam: @cluster0.teeeayh.mongodb.net/

Database 84

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This post was originally published in June 2020 and was updated in September 2023. MySQL performance tuning offers several significant advantages for effective database management and optimization. Enhanced Database Efficiency By adjusting configuration settings, you can markedly enhance the overall efficiency of your MySQL database.

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Percona

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

MySQL is an outstanding open source transactional database used by most web-based applications and is very good at handling OLTP workloads. ClickHouse is a columnar database that handles analytical workloads quickly. By default, it will create a database on ClickHouse with all the tables and their data. (We No manual work!

Engineering 85

Engineering Database Servers Analytics 85

Percona

MAY 16, 2023

As a database administrator, have you ever been in a situation when your database confronted a brute force attack? The connection control plugin library allows administrators to introduce an increasing delay in the server response to connections after a designated number of consecutive unsuccessful login attempts.

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Percona

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Not everything can be addressed on the database side. These connections can accumulate, eventually exhausting server resources and causing the system to become unresponsive. Human factor: In an ideal case, there must be stringent restrictions and enforcement on what load and number of connections can be onboarded to the Database.

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Percona

MAY 1, 2023

This blog was originally published in August 2018 and was updated in May 2023. It has default settings for all of the database parameters. It is primarily the responsibility of the database administrator or developer to tune PostgreSQL according to their system’s workload. What is PostgreSQL performance tuning?

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Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona has a mission to provide the best open source database software, support, and services so our users can innovate freely. Back in 2020, we set out to learn more about how Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) was being used in order to provide a better product to the community. One such feature was managed backups.

Open Source 86

Open Source Database Operating System Programming 86

Percona

APRIL 7, 2023

If we were to select the most important MySQL setting, if we were given a freshly installed MySQL or Percona Server for MySQL and could only tune a single MySQL variable, which one would it be? Sysbench ran on a third server, which I’ll refer to as the application server (APP).

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Percona

JULY 17, 2023

MongoDB Community Edition software might set the stage for achieving your high-volume database goals, but you quickly learn that its features fall short of your enterprise needs. The popularity of MongoDB MongoDB has emerged as a popular database platform. 5 among all database management systems and No. It ranks No.

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Percona

MARCH 3, 2023

Hello friends, at Percona Managed Services, we usually do different types of things every day, including routine tasks, monitoring, and, very frequently, answering questions that are not always easy to answer. Check the database’s topology, whether one or more servers were replicating, if it was a Percona XtraDB Cluster , etc.

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