Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL® and MongoDB® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL® and MongoDB® servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.



We’ve included a plethora of visual improvements in this release, including:

• PostgreSQL Metrics Collection – Visualize PostgreSQL performance!
• Identify New Queries in Query Analytics
• New Dashboard: Compare System Parameters
• New Dashboard: PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA Wait Events Analysis
• Dashboard Updates – Advanced Data Exploration, MyRocks, TokuDB, InnoDB Metrics …

One of the common ways to classify database workloads is whether it is  “read intensive” or “write intensive”. In other words, whether the workload is dominated by reads or writes.

Why should you care? Because recognizing if the workload is read intensive or write intensive will impact your hardware choices, database configuration as well as what techniques you can apply for performance optimization and scalability.

This question looks trivial on the surface, but as you go deeper—complexity emerges. There are different “levels” of reads and writes for you to consider. You can also choose to look at event counts or at the time it takes to do operations. These can provide very different responses, especially as the cost difference between a single read and a single write can be an order of magnitude.

Let’s examine the TPC-C Benchmark from this point of view, or more specifically its …

Is increasing GP2 volumes size or increasing IOPS for IO1 volumes a valid method for scaling IO-Bound workloads? In this post I’ll focus on one question: how much can we improve performance if we use faster cloud volumes? This post is a continuance of previous cloud research posts:

• Saving With MyRocks in The Cloud
• Percona XtraDB Cluster on Amazon GP2 Volumes

To recap, in Amazon EC2 we can use gp2 and io1 volumes. gp2 performance can be scaled with size, i.e for gp2 volume size of 500GB we get 1500 iops; size 1000GB – 3000 iops; and for 3334GB – 10000 iops (maximal …

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) provides an excellent solution for system monitoring. Sometimes, though, you’ll have the need for a metric that’s not present in the list of node_exporter metrics out of the box. In this post, we introduce a simple method and show how to extend the list of available metrics without modifying the node_exporter code. It’s based on the textfile collector.

Enable the textfile collector in pmm-client

This collector is not enabled by default in the latest version of pmm-client. So, first let’s enable the textfile collector.

# pmm-admin rm linux:metrics
OK, removed system pmm-client-hostname from monitoring.
# pmm-admin …

Protecting the data stored in your database may have been at the top of your priorities recently, especially with the changes that were introduced earlier this year with GDPR.

There are a number of ways to protect this data, which until not so long ago would have meant either using an encrypted filesystem (e.g. LUKS), or encrypting the data before it is stored in the database (e.g. AES_ENCRYPT or other abstraction within the application). A few years ago, the options started to change, as Alexander Rubin discussed in …

In this post I’ll give to you the steps to compile Percona Server for MySQL 5.7.22 in Raspberry Pi 3. Why? Well because in general this little computer is cheap, has low power consumption, and is great to use as a test machine for developers.

By default Raspbian OS includes very few versions of MySQL to install

$ apt-cache search mysql | grep server
...
mariadb-server-10.0 - MariaDB database server binaries
mariadb-server-10.1 - MariaDB database server binaries
mariadb-server-core-10.0 - MariaDB database core server files
mariadb-server-core-10.1 - MariaDB database core server files
mysql-server - MySQL database server binaries and system database setup [transitional] (5.5)
...

If you want to install MySQL or MariaDB on an ARM architecture using official pre-built binaries, you are limited to those distributions and versions.

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Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents MySQL vs MongoDB – Choosing the Right Technology for Your Application on Thursday, August 23, 2018, at 10:30 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 1:30 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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Are you considering to adopt the most popular open source relational database or the most popular open source NoSQL database? Which one is right for your particular application?

In this presentation, we will look into advantages and disadvantages of both and examine the applications where MySQL or MongoDB are the most appropriate choice.

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Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.41-84.1 on August 17, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.6.41, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.6.41-84.1 is now the current GA release in the 5.6 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• A simple SELECT query on a table with CHARSET=euckr COLLATE=euckr_bin could return different results each time it was executed. Bug fixed  …

Percona announces the release of Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.61-38.13 on August 17, 2018 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). This release merges changes of MySQL 5.5.61, including all the bug fixes in it. Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.61-38.13 is now the current GA release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free.

Bugs Fixed

• The --innodb-optimize-keys option of the mysqldump utility fails when a column name is used as a prefix of a …

PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

The most significant feature in this release is Prometheus 2, however we also packed a lot of visual changes into release 1.13:

• Prometheus 2 – Consumes less resources, and Dashboards load faster!
• New Dashboard: Network Overview – New dashboard for all things IPv4!
• New Dashboard: NUMA Overview – New Dashboard! …