In this blog post, I’ll walk through some of the improvements to the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) MySQL dashboard in release 1.4.0.

As the part of Percona Monitoring and Management development, we’re constantly looking for better ways to visualize information and help you to spot and resolve problems faster. We’ve made some updates to the MySQL dashboard in the 1.4.0 release. You can see those improvements in action in our Percona Monitoring and Management Demo Site: check out the MySQL Overview and …

In this blog post, we’ll look at Percona Monitoring and Management’s pmm-admin list command.

The pmm-admin list command shows all monitoring services you have added using the pmm-admin add command. Starting with version 1.4.0, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) also lists external monitoring services when you run pmm-admin list, i.e., those services that monitor the backends not supported out of the box (such as PostgreSQL databases).

In the output, the external monitoring services appear at the bottom:

The tabular output of the pmm-admin list commandJSON Output for …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.4.0.

This release introduces the support of external Prometheus exporters so that you can create dashboards in the Metrics monitor even for the monitoring services other than those provided with PMM client packages. To attach an existing external Prometheus exporter, run pmm-admin add external:metrics NAME_OF_EXPORTER URL:PORT.

The list of attached monitoring services is now available not only in the tabular format but also as a JSON file to enable automatic verification of your configuration. To view the list of monitoring services in the JSON format run pmm-admin list --json.

In this release, Prometheus and Grafana have been upgraded. Prometheus …

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

I spent all of this week at O’Reilly Velocity EU London. I gave a tutorial, a talk and generally networked with attendees (besides my normal evangelical duties). I’ll write some thoughts on it later (probably in a couple of weeks, as Open Source Summit Europe happens next week – and Percona has a booth there).

This will be a quick, short post.

Releases

A few security releases this past week, with some bug fixes as well:

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In this blog post, I’ll provide some guidance on how to choose the MySQL innodb_log_file_size.

Like many database management systems, MySQL uses logs to achieve data durability (when using the default InnoDB storage engine). This ensures that when a transaction is committed, data is not lost in the event of crash or power loss.

MySQL’s InnoDB storage engine uses a fixed size (circular) Redo log space. The size is controlled by innodb_log_file_size and innodb_log_files_in_group (default 2). You multiply those values and get the Redo log space that available to use. While technically it shouldn’t matter whether you change either the innodb_log_file_size or innodb_log_files_in_group variable to control the Redo space size, most people just work with the innodb_log_file_size and leave innodb_log_files_in_group alone.

Configuring …

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’s Product Manager Michael Coburn as he presents a Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Demonstration on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, at 10:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-7).

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How can you optimize database performance if you can’t see what’s happening? Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, open source database troubleshooting and performance optimization platform for MySQL and MongoDB. PMM uses Metrics Monitor (Grafana + Prometheus) for visualization of data points. It also has Query Analytics (QAN), to help …

The Metrics Monitor of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 (PMM) provides graph descriptions to display more information about the monitored data without cluttering the interface.

Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL®, MariaDB® and MongoDB® performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL, MariaDB® and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

Each dashboard graph in PMM contains a lot of information. Sometimes, it is not easy to understand what the plotted line represents. The metric labels and the plotted data are limited and have to account for the space they can use in dashboards. It is …

One of the most exciting features shipped in the Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.0 (PMM) release is support for MyRocks metrics via a new Metrics Monitor dashboard titled MySQL MyRocks Metrics. The support in PMM follows the recent Percona Server for MySQL release 5.7.19 from September 6, where Percona delivered an EXPERIMENTAL version of MyRocks for non-Production usage.

The MyRocks storage engine from Facebook is based on RocksDB, a persistent key-value store for fast storage environments. MyRocks is optimized for fast storage and combines outstanding space and write efficiency with acceptable read performance. As a result, …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.3.1. This release only contains bug fixes related to usability.

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

Bug fixes

• PMM-1271: In QAN, when the user selected a database host with no queries, the query monitor could still show metrics.
• PMM-1512: When clicking …