by Liz Warner | Jul 31, 2025 | Monitoring, Percona Announcements, Percona Software
A vulnerability has been discovered in all versions of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). There is no evidence this vulnerability has been exploited in the wild, and no customer data has been exposed. Vulnerability details This vulnerability stems from the way...
by Alexander Demidoff | Apr 16, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
Evolution is one of the inherent traits of modern software. Many people reach out to product teams daily, asking to add more functionality to the software products they use and love. This is understandable: there will always be ways to make a product better by adding...
by Sergey Pronin | Mar 20, 2025 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
At Percona, we’re committed to providing you with the best database monitoring and management tools. With the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 3 (PMM 3), we’re now entering a critical phase in the lifecycle of PMM 2. We understand that PMM 2...
by Matt Kane | Feb 11, 2025 | Percona Announcements, Percona Software
A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the following software that Percona has made available: PMM Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) installations, version 2.38 and above. This vulnerability does not extend to Docker or Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The...
by Agustín | Jun 4, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Downsampling is the process by which we can selectively prune (discard, summarize, or recalculate) data from a series of samples in order to decrease how much storage is consumed. This has the downside of reducing the accuracy of the data, but has the great benefit of...
by Roma Novikov | Jun 3, 2024 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a powerful tool for keeping your databases healthy, but what about PMM itself? While it comes pre-packaged as an appliance, PMM’s internal workings can be complex. Many users, including our internal teams, frequently...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Mar 20, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
When checking for how good (or bad) a PostgreSQL instance is behaving, one just wants to see everything that matters on a single-ish page. That’s what the new summary dashboard in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is achieving: So, what is “everything that...
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Mar 19, 2024 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) overview dashboards were always meant to be a starting point for DBAs to check the overall health of the databases. Current overview dashboards can be a little overwhelming, based on an approach of “full visibility.” Now, we...
by Nurlan Moldomurov | Feb 1, 2024 | Monitoring, Percona Software
The Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Amazon Machine Image (AMI) currently lacks native support for ENV variables. In this guide, we’ll walk through a straightforward workaround that simplifies the process of using ENV variables in PMM AMI and reapplying...
by Sveta Smirnova | Jan 3, 2024 | Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
A couple of weeks ago, we announced the first GA release of the PMM Dump: a new support tool that dumps Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) metrics and Query Analytics (QAN) data to transfer to the expert engineer for review and performance suggestions. That blog...
by Anil Joshi | Dec 7, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In many scenarios, the standard alert notification template in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), while comprehensive, may not align perfectly with specific operational needs. This often leads to an excess of details in the notification’s...
by Peter Sylvester | Aug 8, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL
As businesses grow and develop, the requirements that they have for their data platform grow along with it. As such, one of the more common questions I get from my clients is whether or not their system will be able to endure an anticipated load increase. Or worse...
by Dave Poole | Jun 5, 2023 | Monitoring, Percona Software, Security
On May 30, Percona was notified of a possible vulnerability in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). After researching the report, we agreed with the reporter and began working on a fix to address the issue. Today we’re releasing PMM 2.37.1 with a fix that...
by Roma Novikov | Apr 17, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
So your company is using Datadog on the global level. Still, as DBA, you want to use Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for better database insights and maintain a common policy of Datadog as a standard alerting or high-level observability tool. Percona...
by Puneet Kala | Mar 17, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
2022 was an exciting year for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). We’ve added and improved many features, including Alerting and Backup Management. These updates are designed to keep databases running at peak performance and simplify database operations. But as...
by Duygu Aksoy | Dec 19, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
We are excited to announce the latest release of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) – V2.33. This release includes several new features and improvements that make PMM even more effective and user-friendly. Some of the key highlights of PMM V2.33 include:...
by Duygu Aksoy | Nov 15, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, Monitoring, Percona Software
We are pleased to announce the general availability of the Backup Management for MongoDB and other improvements in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) v.2.32 that has been released in November 2022. Details are in this blog and also in the PMM 2.32 Release Notes....
by Daniel Guzmán Burgos | Sep 14, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
The all-new Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Home dashboard is the answer to some of the main concerns of our users: A clear entry point (where do I start?) Context (is everything okay?) How did we achieve this? By coming up with a redesign of the Home...
by Sergey Pronin | Sep 6, 2022 | Cloud, MongoDB, MySQL, Percona Software
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) comes with Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality that allows you to deploy highly-available databases through a simple user interface and API. PMM DBaaS is sort of unique for various reasons: It is fully open source and...
by Duygu Aksoy | Sep 2, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this v2.30 release, we have focused on improving Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) for usability, refining the dashboards (effortless root cause analysis), Database as a Service (DBaaS) functionality, and seamless onboarding to align with your needs. Your...
