I’m pleased to announce that VividCortex has just released a number of new features since our last product update. If you have any questions regarding any of the updates below, contact us!

Short URLs

You can now share links with your coworkers and collaborate in VividCortex using URLs short enough to be copied and pasted into emails and chat apps, letting you get work done faster with less hassle. Just click the Link icon in the top right of the screen and copy the URL:

When anyone with appropriate permissions clicks the link, they’ll be taken directly to the URL you were looking at when you grabbed the link. Click “Freeze Time Range” to let your coworkers see the time frame you were viewing, no matter when they click the link. For more details, take a look at our …

I’m pleased to announce that VividCortex now offers 99th percentile metrics to help understand latency outliers in a query workload. These metrics provide visibility beyond the average latency, help identify the worst outliers, and improve focus on the customer experience. They are offered for all of the databases we currently support when using On-Host monitoring.

What You'll See

Latency percentile metrics are one of our most popular feature requests, so we know this will make a lot of you very happy! We actually started collecting these metrics some time ago; you’ll have p99 latency metrics for the last couple of months if you look back at your historical metrics. These metrics are captured globally for an environment, per-query, per-database, per-user, per-verb, per-caller and per-custom-query-tag.

Why Did We Choose to Implement This? 

It is extremely useful for a lot of reasons. Averages can be …

The latest release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.8.0 is available as of February 27, 2018.

Percona Monitoring and Management 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 introduces many improvements in the user interface and optimizations of performance.

New landing page

The home page has been removed in favor of the …

In this blog post,  I’ll look at how to catch slow and frequent queries with ProxySQL.

More and more people are using ProxySQL because it is a great tool and it can help DBAs a lot. But many people do not realize that it is more powerful than it looks. It has many features and possibilities. I am going to show you one of my favorite “tricks” / use cases.

There are plenty of blog posts explaining how ProxySQL works. I am not going to that again. Instead, let’s jump straight to the point. There is a table in ProxySQL called “stats.stats_mysql_query_digest”. It is one of my favorite tables because it basically records all the queries that were running against ProxySQL. Without collecting any queries on the MySQL server, I can find …

Buying software solutions for your company is a skill just like any other business practice. To be effective at purchasing it is necessary to have a clear understanding of what you require and a plan on how to evaluate potential vendors. When time is also a factor a working knowledge of the internal buying processes and expectations of your employer are also important.

The wide variety of similar sounding products with hard to distinguish feature differentiators can be daunting. In order to get the right software at a competitive price within the desired timeframe there are 4 important things to consider.

Here’s the short list:

• Define requirements by focusing on needs instead of features
• Prepare your budget, know your buying process
• Check provider quality and support
• Make the most of your trial period

And here’s the longer one: …

Buying software solutions for your company is a skill just like any other business practice. To be effective at purchasing it is necessary to have a clear understanding of what you require and a plan on how to evaluate potential vendors. When time is also a factor a working knowledge of the internal buying processes and expectations of your employer are also important.

The wide variety of similar sounding products with hard to distinguish feature differentiators can be daunting. In order to get the right software at a competitive price within the desired timeframe there are 4 important things to consider.

Here’s the short list:

• Define requirements by focusing on needs instead of features
• Prepare your budget, know your buying process
• Check provider quality and support
• Make the most of your trial period

And here’s the longer one: …

Calling all developers, DBAs, engineers, SREs, and database aficionados: we’re hitting the road and hope to see you along the way. It's always a highlight of our year when we get to meet up with our users and friends face-to-face, and we'll be attending events across the country (and abroad!) for the rest of 2018. If you see our booth, come say hello. 

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Below is a list of the places you'll be able to find us over the next nine months, plus descriptions of how we'll be involved at each event (and, in some cases, special ticket discount codes).

In this blog post, we’ll review additional Amazon Aurora MySQL monitoring capabilities we’ve added in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.7.0. You can see them in action in the MySQL Amazon Aurora Metrics dashboard.

Amazon Aurora MySQL Transaction Commits

This graph looks at the number of commits the Amazon Aurora engine performed, as well as the average commit latency. As you can see from this graph, latency does not always correlate with the number of commits performed and can be quite high in certain situations.

Amazon Aurora MySQL …

In this blog post, we’ll introduce how you can look at some experimental Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) features using Percona Labs builds on GitHub.

Note: PerconaLabs and Percona-QA are open source GitHub repositories for unofficial scripts and tools created by Percona staff. While not covered by Percona support or services agreements, these handy utilities can help you save time and effort.

Percona software builds located in the PerconaLabs and Percona-QA repositories are not officially released software, and also aren’t covered by Percona support or services agreements. 

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free and open-source platform for managing and …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.1.8.

Changelog

• Add MySQL 5.7 support
• Changed a canary check to use timestamp.now() and return a timedelta.seconds
• Remove an additional condition for the Dictionary memory allocated
• Fixed a false-positive problem when the calculated delay was less than 0 and the -m was not set.
• Fixed the problem where slaves would alert due to deadlocks on the master.
• If using pt-heartbeat, get_slave_status was only called when the -s option is set to …