2023, Database and Monitoring - Technology Performance Pulse

Extend business observability: Extract business events from online databases (Part 2)

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In part 2, we’ll show you how to retrieve business data from a database, analyze that data using dashboards and ad hoc queries, and then use a Davis analyzer to predict metric behavior and detect behavioral anomalies. Dynatrace users typically use extensions to pull technical monitoring data, such as device metrics, into Dynatrace.

Database

Database Artificial Intelligence Metrics Monitoring

What is application security monitoring?

Dynatrace

MARCH 20, 2024

With the pace of digital transformation continuing to accelerate, organizations are realizing the growing imperative to have a robust application security monitoring process in place. What are the goals of continuous application security monitoring and why is it important?

Monitoring

Monitoring Analytics Traffic Best Practices

DevOps monitoring tools: How to drive DevOps efficiency

Dynatrace

MAY 8, 2023

With the world’s increased reliance on digital services and the organizational pressure on IT teams to innovate faster, the need for DevOps monitoring tools has grown exponentially. In fact, the Dynatrace 2023 CIO Report found that 78% of respondents deploy software updates every 12 hours or less. What is DevOps monitoring?

DevOps

DevOps Efficiency Monitoring Infrastructure

RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

Read on to learn more about the ways observability and security are converging and how this affects vulnerability management, real-time response, and the rise of DevSecOps in our RSA 2023 guide. Observability is critical for monitoring application performance, infrastructure, and user behavior within hybrid, microservices-based environments.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In his keynote address on the first day of Perform 2023 in Las Vegas, Dynatrace Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder and his colleagues discussed how organizations struggle with this problem and how Dynatrace is meeting the moment. This unified approach enables Grail to vault past the limitations of traditional databases.

Analytics

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database

How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

APRIL 10, 2023

And according to recent data from Enterprise Strategy Group, 59% of survey respondents indicated spending on public cloud applications would increase in 2023. discussed the 85-year-old retailer’s cloud migration journey and the importance of multicloud observability at Dynatrace Perform 2023. Further, as Tractor Supply Co.

Cloud

Cloud Ecommerce Performance Retail

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.10, and More: Release Roundup December 18, 2023

Percona

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since December 4, 2023.

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Servers Database

How automated workflows and multicloud automation can reduce engineering toil

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2023

But without automated workflows, IT professionals are finding it difficult to monitor, manage, secure, and troubleshoot applications at scale. In the era of in-house, internal-facing databases, manual monitoring and oversight were possible with minimal errors. And errors become especially worrisome as IT environments expand.

Engineering

Engineering Speed Monitoring Efficiency

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.1, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.11: Release Roundup October 31, 2023

Percona

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since October 16, 2023.

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Scalability Database

Dynatrace extends AI-powered observability for SAP together with PowerConnect

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2024

Monitoring SAP products can present challenges Monitoring SAP systems can be challenging due to the inherent complexity of using different technologies—such as ABAP, Java, and cloud offerings—and the sheer amount of generated data. SAP HANA server infrastructure monitored with OneAgent.

Java

Java Analytics Best Practices Monitoring

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.17: Release Roundup May 8, 2023

Percona

MAY 8, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since April 24, 2023.

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Servers

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38, Updates to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Release Roundup July 10, 2023

Percona

JULY 10, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since June 26, 2023.

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Scalability

Percona Monitoring and Management Dump: A New Tool to Support Percona Customers

Percona

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this post, I will present a new Percona tool: Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Dump. PMM Dump allows you to share monitoring data collected by your PMM server securely with the Percona Support team. PMM Dump allows you to share monitoring data collected by your PMM server securely with the Percona Support team.

Monitoring

Monitoring Metrics Analytics Open Source

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.0, Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.2-1 (RC): Release Roundup October 16, 2023

Percona

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since October 2, 2023.

Servers

Servers Monitoring Open Source Scalability

PostgreSQL Database Security: External Server-Based Authentication

Percona

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Database security is crucial to protecting sensitive information stored in a database. A critical aspect is authentication, which refers to verifying the identity of a user trying to access the database. PostgreSQL server authentication refers to verifying the identity of a user trying to connect to the PostgreSQL server.

Database

Database Servers Testing Programming

Conducting log analysis with an observability platform and full data context

Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

With more automated approaches to log monitoring and log analysis, however, organizations can gain visibility into their applications and infrastructure efficiently and with greater precision—even as cloud environments grow. ” In many cases, indexed databases only provide access to a sample of statistical data summaries.

Analytics

Analytics Infrastructure Storage Architecture

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.35, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.4: Release Roundup February 27, 2023

Percona

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since February 13, 2023. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.35

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Software

Updated Percona Distributions for MongoDB, Metadata Table for QAN in PMM: Release Roundup August 21, 2023

Percona

AUGUST 21, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since August 7, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source AWS Servers Database

Tech Preview of Percona Operator for MySQL 0.4.0, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.4: Release Roundup February 13, 2023

Percona

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since January 30, 2023. was released on February 9, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Database Servers Scalability

How to Monitor Online InnoDB Buffer Pool Resizing

Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this blog post, we will go through the process of InnoDB buffer pool resizing online, covering why it is important to monitor its progress and how to monitor it. Importance of monitoring the InnoDB buffer pool resize Since MySQL 5.7.5, This status variable reports a string value indicating buffer pool resizing progress.

Monitoring

Monitoring Code Open Source Cache

Innovation Release of Percona XtraDB Cluster, Updated Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Release Roundup November 13, 2023

Percona

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since October 31, 2023.

Innovation

Innovation Open Source Scalability Servers

Critical CVE Fix in PMM, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL: Release Roundup June 12, 2023

Percona

JUNE 12, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since May 29, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Database Scalability

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.0, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.0: Release Roundup October 2, 2023

Percona

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since September 18, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Scalability Database Servers

Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.2.1, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL, : Release Roundup August 7, 2023

Percona

AUGUST 7, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since July 24, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Scalability Database

Custom Percona Monitoring and Management Dashboards

Percona

AUGUST 4, 2023

Percona has bundled together some great open source pieces of software to create Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), a very flexible and powerful monitoring solution. If you have deployed PMM, chances are you have an application using a database like MySQL or PostgreSQL. Download Percona Monitoring and Management Today

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Metrics

Updated Percona Distributions for MySQL, Percona Distributions for MongoDB: Release Roundup March 27, 2023

Percona

MARCH 27, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since March 13, 2023. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.36

Open Source

Open Source Servers Scalability Cache

Using Jobs to Perform Schema Changes Against MySQL Databases on K8s

Percona

OCTOBER 10, 2023

[mysql@percona-client /]$ mysql -h minimal-cluster-pxc -u root -p Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Copyright (c) 2009-2023 Percona LLC and/or its affiliates Copyright (c) 2000, 2023, Oracle and/or its affiliates. mysql> create database if not exists atsaloux; Query OK, 1 row affected (0.02 email`, NEW.`birthdate`,

Database

Database Performance C++ Engineering

The road to observability demo part 3: Collect, instrument, and analyze telemetry data automatically with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

With that, we could make use of the full set of OpenTelemetry’s features to instrument and monitor our applications in the Dynatrace back end, including traces with spans and metrics. OneAgent is the native telemetry data collector and monitoring solution of Dynatrace. And that’s where Dynatrace OneAgent comes in.

Metrics

Metrics Monitoring Database Network

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1, Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.1.0: Release Roundup December 4, 2023

Percona

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since November 13, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Azure Servers Programming

New Versions of Percona Distribution for MongoDB, Percona Operator for MySQL: Release Roundup September 18, 2023

Percona

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since September 4, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Database Scalability

Turbocharging Percona Monitoring and Management With Loki’s Log-shipping Functionality

Percona

APRIL 6, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll check how to integrate Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) with Loki to be able to get not only metrics and queries from our database servers but also text-based information like logs. Mar 15 19:02:59 ps promtail[2318]: level=info ts=2023-03-15T19:02:59.437567482Z caller=filetargetmanager.go:352

Monitoring

Monitoring Servers Metrics Database

How organizations are adopting AIOps and IT automation

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Meanwhile, the greatest IT operations challenge for enterprises in 2023 was automating as many operations as possible, cited by 66% of respondents. According to Dynatrace data, only 14% of organizations have a unified, single monitoring platform to enable cross-team collaboration and a true understanding of IT’s business impact.

Innovation

Innovation Monitoring Network Strategy

Updated Versions of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster: Release Roundup September 4, 2023

Percona

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since August 21, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Scalability Database Software

Upgrade to Grafana 9.2.20 in PMM 2.38, New Data Sink in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28: Release Roundup July 24, 2023

Percona

JULY 24, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since July 10, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Database Scalability Monitoring

Percona Live 2023 Call For Papers Open!

Percona

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Percona Live 2023 will be in Denver Colorado May 22nd through the 24th. This is the premier open source database conference and you not only want to attend but you also need to present at! Topics can cover any and all open source database and data-related topics. Tutorials will be 3 hours in length (including Q&A). We

Open Source

Open Source Database DevOps Cloud

Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Thomas: “Not so fast, Klaus; this host is part of our Synthetic Monitoring node cluster. Reduce the volume of data volumes requested from databases (for example, request all, filter in memory). In January 2023, Dynatrace released the Carbon Impact app, adding carbon emissions and energy consumption metrics to observability data.

Cloud

Cloud Energy Best Practices Cache

Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.0.33, Percona Server for MySQL: Release Roundup June 26, 2023

Percona

JUNE 26, 2023

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in. Today’s post includes those releases and updates that have come out since June 12, 2023.

Servers

Servers Open Source Scalability Database

Setting Up Percona Monitoring and Management Alerts for External Channels (Telegram, Slack, WebHook)

Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Setting up Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) alerts for multiple channels can significantly enhance your monitoring strategy. For example, a monitoring system can use webhooks to notify administrators when there’s a critical issue. Please note that I am not covering the basic alerting and configuration setup.

Monitoring

Monitoring Database Open Source Java

From Proprietary to Open Source: The Complete Guide to Database Migration

Percona

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Migrating a proprietary database to open source is a major decision that can significantly affect your organization. Today, we’ll be taking a deep dive into the intricacies of database migration, along with specific solutions to help make the process easier.

Open Source

Open Source Database Strategy Hardware

Percona Monitoring and Management and Datadog Integration

Percona

APRIL 17, 2023

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 Monitoring and Management is not intended to replace Datadog; rather, they work better together. openmetrics.d/conf.yaml

Monitoring

Monitoring Metrics Database Open Source

The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

MARCH 30, 2023

The use of open source databases has increased steadily in recent years. Past trepidation — about perceived vulnerabilities and performance issues — has faded as decision makers realize what an “open source database” really is and what it offers. What is an open source database?

Open Source

Open Source Database Storage Scalability

pgBackRest’s Expire and Backup With Custom Lock-Path Files

Percona

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

PostgreSQL is a powerful and popular open source relational database management system. Ensuring the safety of your PostgreSQL data through regular backups is an important concern for database administrators. The /etc/pgbackrest/pgbackrest.conf file contains crucial information related to our primary database server.

Database

Database Open Source Storage Servers

MySQL Connection Security With Connection Control Plugins

Percona

MAY 16, 2023

As a database administrator, have you ever been in a situation when your database confronted a brute force attack? This plugin also exposes system variables that enable its operation to be configured and a status variable that provides rudimentary monitoring information. suffix for your platform as necessary. and Newer

Servers

Servers Database Monitoring Testing

OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Additionally, Dynatrace offers powerful monitoring capabilities for OpenShift , helping you manage costs , automate your operations, and release better software faster.

Open Source

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System

Extend business observability: Extract business events from online databases (Part 2)

What is application security monitoring?

Trending Sources

DevOps monitoring tools: How to drive DevOps efficiency

RSA Guide 2023: Cloud application security remains core challenge for organizations

Data lakehouse innovations advance the three pillars of observability for more collaborative analytics

How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0, Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 14.10, and More: Release Roundup December 18, 2023

How automated workflows and multicloud automation can reduce engineering toil

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.1, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.11: Release Roundup October 31, 2023

Dynatrace extends AI-powered observability for SAP together with PowerConnect

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 5.0.17: Release Roundup May 8, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38, Updates to Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Release Roundup July 10, 2023

Percona Monitoring and Management Dump: A New Tool to Support Percona Customers

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.0, Percona Server for MongoDB 7.0.2-1 (RC): Release Roundup October 16, 2023

PostgreSQL Database Security: External Server-Based Authentication

Conducting log analysis with an observability platform and full data context

Percona Monitoring and Management 2.35, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.0.4: Release Roundup February 27, 2023

Updated Percona Distributions for MongoDB, Metadata Table for QAN in PMM: Release Roundup August 21, 2023

Tech Preview of Percona Operator for MySQL 0.4.0, Percona Distribution for MongoDB 6.0.4: Release Roundup February 13, 2023

How to Monitor Online InnoDB Buffer Pool Resizing

Innovation Release of Percona XtraDB Cluster, Updated Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL: Release Roundup November 13, 2023

Critical CVE Fix in PMM, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL: Release Roundup June 12, 2023

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.0, Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.3.0: Release Roundup October 2, 2023

Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.2.1, Updates to Percona Distribution for MySQL, : Release Roundup August 7, 2023

Custom Percona Monitoring and Management Dashboards

Updated Percona Distributions for MySQL, Percona Distributions for MongoDB: Release Roundup March 27, 2023

Using Jobs to Perform Schema Changes Against MySQL Databases on K8s

The road to observability demo part 3: Collect, instrument, and analyze telemetry data automatically with Dynatrace

Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16.1, Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.1.0: Release Roundup December 4, 2023

New Versions of Percona Distribution for MongoDB, Percona Operator for MySQL: Release Roundup September 18, 2023

Turbocharging Percona Monitoring and Management With Loki’s Log-shipping Functionality

How organizations are adopting AIOps and IT automation

Updated Versions of Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster: Release Roundup September 4, 2023

Upgrade to Grafana 9.2.20 in PMM 2.38, New Data Sink in Percona XtraBackup 8.0.33-28: Release Roundup July 24, 2023

Percona Live 2023 Call For Papers Open!

Sustainable IT: Optimize your hybrid-cloud carbon footprint

Percona Distribution for MySQL 8.0.33, Percona Server for MySQL: Release Roundup June 26, 2023

Setting Up Percona Monitoring and Management Alerts for External Channels (Telegram, Slack, WebHook)

From Proprietary to Open Source: The Complete Guide to Database Migration

Percona Monitoring and Management and Datadog Integration

The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

pgBackRest’s Expire and Backup With Custom Lock-Path Files

MySQL Connection Security With Connection Control Plugins

OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

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