For Percona Live Europe, I’ll be presenting the tutorial Elasticsearch 101 alongside my colleagues and fellow presenters from ObjectRocket Alex Cercel, DBA, and Mihai Aldoiu, Data Engineer. Here’s a brief overview of our tutorial.

Elasticsearch® is well known as a highly scalable search engine that stores data in a structure optimized for language based searches but its capabilities and use cases don’t stop there. In this tutorial, we’ll give you a hands-on introduction to Elasticsearch and give you a glimpse at some of the fundamental concepts. We’ll cover various administrative topics like …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

This week is clearly what I’d call a “MariaDB week” — plenty of announcements coming from MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation.

It started with Alibaba Cloud and MariaDB Announce the Launch of ApsaraDB RDS for MariaDB TX, which makes Alibaba Cloud the first public cloud to offer the enterprise offering of MariaDB, MariaDB TX 3.0. It is not available yet as of this announcement for rolling out from the interface, but I expect it will be soon. Exciting, as you can already get MariaDB Server on …

Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place November 5–7, 2018 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices. Be sure to buy your tickets soon as tickets prices will only head up, not down! Sponsorship opportunities for the conference are still available.

Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference is the premier open source database event. Our theme this year is “Connect. Accelerate. Innovate.”  Percona Live is the …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

This week wraps up the London MySQL meetup, where there were four presentations, for the intimate yet diverse crowd. We saw representation from Oracle MySQL, MariaDB Corporation, Pythian, and Percona. Long-time organizer Ivan Zoratti has also handed off the baton to Maria Luisa Raviol, and going forward she will ensure meetups are at least once per quarter. It was a real pleasure to see MySQL Community Manager Dave Stokes at the event, too.

A new book to read: AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud. There is coverage of RDS, from the standpoint of an example application stack as …

Percona announces the release of Percona Toolkit 3.0.12 on September 13, 2018.

Percona Toolkit is a collection of advanced open source command-line tools, developed and used by the Percona technical staff, that are engineered to perform a variety of MySQL®, MongoDB® and system tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform manually. With over 1,000,000 downloads, Percona Toolkit supports Percona Server for MySQL, MySQL®, MariaDB®, Percona Server for MongoDB and MongoDB.

Percona Toolkit, like all Percona software, is free and open source. You can download packages  …

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’re releasing hotfix 1.14.1 to address two issues found post-release of 1.14.0:

• PMM-2963: Upgrading to PMM 1.14.0 fails due to attempting to create already existing Dashboard
  • Our upgrade script incorrectly tried to create dashboards that already existed, and generating failure message:

            A folder or dashboard in the general folder with the …

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 …

Please join Percona’s CEO, Peter Zaitsev as he presents Choosing the Right Open Source Database on Wednesday, September 5th, 2018 at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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The world of open-source databases is overwhelming. There are dozens of types of databases – relational DBMS, time-series, graph, document, etc. – not to mention the dozens of software options within each of those categories. More and more, the strategies of enterprises involve open source software and open source database software. …

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 …

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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