Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.2. This release only contains bug fixes related to usability.

For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management.

Bug fixes

• PMM-1529: When the user selected “Today”, “This week”, “This month” or “This year” range in Metrics Monitor and clicked the Query Analytics button, the QAN page opened reporting no data for the selected range even if the data were available.
  
• PMM-1528: In some cases, the …

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

This week: a quick roundup of releases, a summary of my thoughts about Percona Live Europe 2017 Dublin, links to look at and upcoming appearances. Oracle OpenWorld happened in San Francisco this past week, and there were lots of MySQL talks there as well (and a good community reception). I have a bit on that as well (from afar).

Look for these updates on Planet MySQL.

Releases

• Red Hat Software Collections 3.0 Beta now has MariaDB 10.2.7, MongoDB …

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

Percona Live Europe 2017 Dublin

We’ve spent a lot of time in the last few months organizing Percona Live Europe Dublin. I want to thank all the speakers, sponsors and attendees for helping us to pull off yet another great event. While we’ll provide some perspectives, thoughts and feedback soon, all the early mornings, jam-packed meetings and the 4 am bedtimes means I’ll probably talk about this event in my next column!

In the meantime, save the date for …

After yesterday’s very successful tutorial day, everyone looked forward to an inspiring first day of the conference and the Percona Live Europe 2017 keynotes. There were some fantastic keynotes delivered, and some excellent sessions scheduled.

Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Office of Percona, opened proceedings with a welcome address where she paid tribute to Jaako Pesonen: a true champion of open source and friend to our community who passed away just this month. He will be missed.

Championing Open Source Databases

Peter Zaitsev delivers his keynote “Championing Open Source Databases”

Laurie then introduced Peter Zaitsev, CEO of …

After yesterday’s very successful tutorial day, everyone looked forward to an inspiring first day of the conference and the Percona Live Europe 2017 keynotes. There were some fantastic keynotes delivered, and some excellent sessions scheduled.

Note. These videos are as shot, and the slides will be superimposed very soon so you can enjoy the full conference experience!

Laurie Coffin, Chief Marketing Office of Percona, opened proceedings with a welcome address where she paid tribute to Jaako Pesonen: a true champion of open source and friend to our community who passed away just this month. He will be missed.

Championing Open Source Databases

Peter Zaitsev delivers his keynote “Championing Open Source Databases”

“To be competitive with non-open-source cloud deployment options, open source databases need to invest in “ease-of-use.” There is no tolerance for complexity in many development teams as we move to “ops-less” deployment models.” –Peter Zaitsev

I have interviewed Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder and CEO of Percona.
In this interview, Peter talks about the Open Source Databases market; the Cloud; the scalability challenges at Facebook; compares MySQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB; and presents Percona’s contribution to the MySQL and MongoDB ecosystems.

RVZ

Q1. What are the main technical challenges in obtaining application scaling?

Peter Zaitsev: When it comes to scaling, there are different types. There is a Facebook/Google/Alibaba/Amazon scale: these …

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We are five weeks out to the conference! The tutorials and the sessions have been released, and there’s an added bonus – you can now look at all this in a grid view: tutorials, day one and day two. Now that you can visualize what’s being offered, don’t forget to register.

If you want a discount code, feel free to email me at …

In this blog post, we’ll look at how using thread_statistics can cause high memory usage.

I was recently working on a high memory usage issue for one of our clients, and made some interesting discoveries: high memory usage with no bounds. It was really tricky to diagnose.

Below, I am going to show you how to identify that having thread_statistics enabled causes high memory usage on busy systems with many threads.

Part 1: Issue Background

I had a server with 55.0G of available memory. Percona Server for MySQL version:

Version | 5.6.35-80.0-log Percona Server (GPL), Release 80.0, Revision f113994f31
                 Built On | debian-linux-gnu x86_64

We have …

Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured session blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the session speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these sessions can help you improve your database environment. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live 2017 registration bonus!

In this Percona Live featured session, we’ll meet the folks at SelectStar, a database monitoring and management tool company. SelectStar will be a sponsor at Percona Live this year.

I recently came across the SelectStar database monitoring product. There are a number of monitoring products on the market (with the evolution of various SaaS and …

In this blog post, I’ll look for the bottleneck that prevented the performance in my previous post from achieving better results.

The powerful machine I used in the tests in my previous post has a comparatively slow disk, and therefore I expected my tests would hit a point when I couldn’t increase performance further due to the disk speed.

Hardware configuration:

Processors: physical = 4, cores = 72, virtual = 144, hyperthreading = yes
Memory: 3.0T
Disk speed: about 3K …