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

Shortly after the last dispatch, I jetted off for a spot of vacation (which really meant I was checking out the hype behind Blockchain with a database developer lens at the Blockchain Week NYC), and then some customer visits in Seoul, which explains the short hiatus. Here’s to making this more regular as the summer approaches.

I am about to embark on a fairly long trip, covering a few upcoming appearances: Lisbon for the Percona Engineering meeting, SouthEastLinuxFest in Charlotte, the …

In this blog post, I will look at the new dashboards in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for Prometheus exporters.

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) uses Prometheus exporters to capture metrics data from the system it monitors. Those Prometheus exporters are an important part of your monitoring infrastructure, and understanding their performance and other operational details is critical for well-implemented monitoring.    

To help you with this we’ve added a number of new dashboards to Percona Monitoring and Management.

The Prometheus Exporters Overview dashboard provides a high-level overview of your installed Prometheus exporter …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.7.0. (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.

This release features improved support for external services, which enables a PMM Server to store and display metrics for any available Prometheus exporter. For example, you could deploy the postgres_exporter and use PMM’s external services feature to store PostgreSQL metrics in PMM. Immediately, you’ll see these new metrics in …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.6.1. This release contains fixes to bugs found after Percona Monitoring and Management 1.6.0 was released.

Bug fixes

• PMM-1660: QAN for MongoDB would not display data when authentication was enabled.
• PMM-1822: In Metrics Monitor, some tag names were incorrect in dashboards.
• PMM-1832: After upgrading to 1.5.2, it was not possible to disable an Amazon RDS instance on the Add RDS instance dashboard of Metrics Monitor.
• PMM-1907: In Metrics …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0. In this release, Percona Monitoring and Management Grafana metrics are available in the Advanced Data Exploration dashboard. We’ve improved the integration with MyRocks, and its data is now collected from SHOW GLOBAL STATUS.

The MongoDB Exporter now features two new metrics: mongodb_up to inform if the MongoDB Server is running and mongodb_scrape_errors_total reporting the total number of errors when scaping MongoDB.

In this release, we’ve greatly improved the performance of the mongodb:metrics monitoring service.

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.6.0 also …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.3. This release contains fixes for bugs found after the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.5.2, as well as some important fixes and improvements not related to the previous release.

Improvements

• PMM-1874: The read timeout of the proxy server (/prometheus) has been increased from the default of 60 seconds to avoid nxginx gateway timeout error when loading data-rich dashboards.
• PMM-1863: We improved our handling of temporary Grafana credentials

Bug fixes

• …

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

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 …

Welcome to the first day of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2017, and the first set of Percona Live keynotes!

It’s a beautiful day in Santa Clara, but we don’t know because we’re inside the Hyatt Regency Convention Center listening to various rock stars in the open source database community talk about open source technologies. Day one of the conference kicked off with four keynote talks, all of which discussed issues and technologies that are addressed by open source solutions:

Percona Welcoming Keynote

Peter Zaitsev (Percona)

Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona, welcomed everyone to Percona Live Open Source …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.0.2 Beta on 28 July 2016.

Like prior versions, PMM is distributed through Docker Hub and is free to download. Full instructions for download and installation of the server and client are available in the documentation.

Notable changes to the tool include:

• Upgraded to Grafana 3.1.0.
• Upgraded to Prometheus 1.0.1.
• Set default metrics retention to 30 days.
• Eliminated port 9001. Now the container uses only one configurable port, 80 by default.
• Eliminated the need to specify ADDRESS variable …

Recently the mysql community got an awesome monitoring solution for mysql

with Prometheus & Grafana. The graphs are simply beautiful and really lively.

I started off with this nice post on the mysql performance blog  by Roman Vynar and got the solution up and running very easily.

You can actually monitor Amazon RDS instance with the same steps mentioned in the above post but with a few changes:

The monitoring framework consists of 4 components:

1. Prometheus server on port 9090
2. Grafana server on port 3000
3. MySQL …