This post explains how to collect metrics on connections, resource usage, query performance and database characteristics.

Your MySQL database has been running smoothly for years. Your team knows it inside and out. Everything just… works. Why rock the boat with an upgrade? Here’s why: MySQL 8.0 reaches its end-of-life date in April 2026. After this date, there’s no safety net; staying on end-of-life software means you’re taking on all the responsibility […]

Monitoring MySQL HeatWave Replication Using OCI Database Management Custom Alarms

Monitoring MySQL replication is key to maintaining data consistency, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring smooth failover across environments. It helps confirm that your replication topology is running as expected, assists in identifying delays or failures, and gives control to manage increasingly complex deployments. Understanding MySQL Replication types: Asynchronous replication can be configured to establish pathways for […]

If you’re running MySQL 8.0 databases, you need to know this: Oracle will stop supporting them in April 2026. That means no more security patches, bug fixes, or help when things go wrong. Maybe you’re thinking, “But April 2026 feels far away!“. But once that date hits, every day you keep running MySQL 8.0 makes […]

In this final part of the series, we dive deeper into how Routing Guidelines work internally, focusing on the custom expression parser and evaluator that enables complex routing rules.

You’ve got a shiny new Percona Monitoring & Management instance standing by and want to move existing users over. This blog is a quick work around for migrating PMM users…

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Welcome to the final post in our MySQL Routing Guidelines series. In the first two posts (Smarter Query Routing with MySQL Routing Guidelines and MySQL Routing Guidelines: A Practical Guide to Management and Configuration), we introduced the concept of Routing Guidelines and showed how to configure and manage them in MySQL Shell. Now, we’re going […]

In this post we discuss AWS Keyring Component. It uses Amazon Web Services Key Management Service (AWS KMS) as a back end for key generation and encryption and utilizes a file as a key storage. Components are more independent and better encapsulated (thus more secure) extensions to MySQL compared to plugins. The component introduces AWS compatible configuration, appropriate to run in an AWS ECS container or an EC2 node.

In this article we discuss how to deploy High Available and Disaster Recovery Architecture over multiple OCI regions using Terraform and Puppet.