2023, Monitoring and Open Source - Technology Performance Pulse

Perform 2023 Guide: Organizations mine efficiencies with automation, causal AI

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They now use modern observability to monitor expanding cloud environments in order to operate more efficiently, innovate faster and more securely, and to deliver consistently better business results. In what follows, we explore some key cloud observability trends in 2023, such as workflow automation and exploratory analytics.

Efficiency

Efficiency Performance Analytics DevOps

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

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. For example, the open source Java library at the heart of the Log4Shell crisis in 2021 was patched within days given the pervasiveness of the code.

Cloud

Cloud DevOps Open Source Retail

Unlock the Power of DevSecOps with Newly Released Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Centralization of platform capabilities improves efficiency of managing complex, multi-cluster infrastructure environments According to research findings from the 2023 State of DevOps Report , “36% of organizations believe that their team would perform better if it was more centralized.” All important health signals are highlighted.

Engineering

Engineering DevOps Best Practices Infrastructure

What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure mandate means for application security

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On July 26, 2023, the U.S. The SEC cybersecurity mandate will go into effect on December 15, 2023, and cybersecurity organizations are still figuring out how to properly prepare themselves. Teams must continuously monitor runtime environments for leaked vulnerabilities and assess their scope and potential impact on their organization.

Best Practices

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Optimize resource utilization of your Kubernetes clusters with SLOs

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Kubernetes is a widely used open source system for container orchestration. Properly monitoring a Kubernetes cluster or any related environment can be difficult. Service-level objectives (SLOs) are often used to monitor business-critical services and applications for customers.

Efficiency

Efficiency Monitoring Best Practices Open Source

Three ways intelligent automation can advance release validation and break down DevSecOps silos

Dynatrace

MAY 4, 2023

According to the Dynatrace 2023 CIO Report , 34% of CIOs reported that they must sacrifice security to meet the demand for faster innovation. Leveraging open source code and traditional monitoring tools can also increase the risk for vulnerabilities to enter the SDLC.

DevOps

DevOps Speed Innovation Open Source

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. Advantages of migrating to open source For many reasons mentioned earlier, organizations are increasingly shifting towards open source databases for their data management needs.

Open Source

Open Source Database Strategy Hardware

A Kubernetes platform engineering strategy tames Kubernetes complexity

Dynatrace

JULY 25, 2024

After a decade of helping companies manage container orchestration, Kubernetes, the open source container platform, has established itself as a mature enterprise technology. They also needed to integrate the value and context of metrics and traces into their log monitoring scheme in a single place.

Strategy

Strategy Engineering Open Source Java

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

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. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0 Percona Monitoring and Management 2.41.0

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Servers Database

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2023, over 500 million digital apps and services will be developed and deployed using cloud-native approaches. The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions highlights key trends for IT industry-wide technology adoption for the next five years and includes these predictions: Hasten to innovation. Industry apps explosion.

Performance

Performance Education Innovation Software Architecture

The top eight DevSecOps trends in 2022

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As a result, developers and operations teams can automatically manage, monitor, and provision IT resources through software code rather than manually configure one device after another. GitOps is a framework of practices that manage infrastructure and application configurations using Git, an open-source version control system.

Serverless

Serverless Infrastructure Innovation DevOps

What is cloud application security?

Dynatrace

JUNE 15, 2023

It also entails secure development practices, security monitoring and logging, compliance and governance, and incident response. Cloud application security practices enable organizations to follow secure coding practices, monitor and log activities for detection and response, comply with regulations, and develop incident response plans.

Cloud

Cloud Open Source Architecture Monitoring

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. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.1 Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.1 (PMM)

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Scalability Database

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. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37 Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37

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. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38 Download Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Scalability

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. Open source solutions are also making tracing harder.

Analytics

Analytics Innovation Metrics Database

IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Nonetheless, to help mitigate climate change, it’s critically important for organizations to measure, monitor, and reduce their IT carbon footprints. The Carbon Impact app assesses carbon emissions and energy consumption from all monitored hosts. Certainly, this is true for us. Download report Already a Dynatrace customer?

Energy

Energy Cloud Airlines Strategy

OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

JUNE 7, 2023

Kubernetes is an open source container orchestration platform that enables organizations to automatically scale, manage, and deploy containerized applications in distributed environments. According to the Kubernetes in the Wild 2023 report, “Kubernetes is emerging as the operating system of the cloud.” Ease of use.

Open Source

Open Source Social Media Infrastructure Operating System

OpenTelemetry observability and Dynatrace deliver actionable answers at scale

Dynatrace

AUGUST 21, 2023

If a microservice falls in the forest and all your monitoring solutions report it differently, can operators accurately trace what happened and automate a response? Different monitoring point solutions, such as Jaeger, Zipkin, Logstash, Fluentd, and StatsD, each have their own way of observing and recording such an event.

Open Source

Open Source Analytics Lambda Metrics

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. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.40.0 was released on October 3, 2023.

Servers

Servers Monitoring Open Source Scalability

What is DORA? The application security and reliability implications of the Digital Operational Resilience Act

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2024

In effect since January 2023, DORA requires compliance from all financial institutions operating in the EU by January 2025. DORA came into effect on January 16, 2023. Monitor and assess risks associated with critical third-party providers, including cloud platforms, data analytics companies, and other critical service providers.

Best Practices

Best Practices Government Infrastructure Analytics

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

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. came out on November 2, 2023. was released on November 1, 2023. Take a look.

Innovation

Innovation Open Source Scalability Servers

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

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. Take a look! was released.

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. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.39.0 Percona Monitoring and Management 2.39.0

Open Source

Open Source AWS Servers Database

OpenTelemetry logs in Grail unlock full observability

Dynatrace

JULY 11, 2023

Dynatrace has supported the OpenTelemetry project for years as a key contributor and contributed to its rise to a popular open source observability framework for cloud-native software. The same API is also available for Log Monitoring Classic for Dynatrace Managed deployments (via an Environment ActiveGate).

Open Source

Open Source Analytics Metrics Cloud

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. On August 2, 2023, we released Percona Distribution for MySQL (PXC-based variant) 8.0.33.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Scalability Database

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. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.37.1 was released on June 5, 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. was released on September 26, 2023. 26 was released on September 26, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Scalability Database Servers

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

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. was released on March 23, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Scalability Cache

RSA guide 2024: AI and security are top concerns for organizations in every industry

Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

According to McKinsey’s State of AI in 2023 report, 40% of respondents said their organizations plan to increase their overall AI investment because of advancements in generative AI. Observability is critical for monitoring application performance, infrastructure, and user behavior within hybrid, microservices-based environments.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence Cloud Best Practices DevOps

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. On November 27, 2023, Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS- based variant) 8.1.0

Open Source

Open Source Azure Servers Programming

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. sec) Grafana data source Now that we have the power production data in MySQL, we need to configure Grafana to access the MySQL server.

Monitoring

Monitoring Open Source Database Metrics

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. 2 came out on August 25, 2023. was released on August 31, 2023. Take a look.

Open Source

Open Source Scalability Database Software

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. was released on September 14, 2023. was released on September 11, 2023.

Open Source

Open Source Servers Database Scalability

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. Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38.1 Percona Monitoring and Management 2.38.1 (PMM)

Open Source

Open Source Database Scalability Monitoring

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. On June 15, 2023, Percona Distribution for MySQL (PS-based variation) 8.0.33

Servers

Servers Open Source Scalability Database

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.

Open Source

Open Source Database DevOps Cloud

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

OpenTelemetry, the open source observability tool, has emerged as an industry-standard solution for instrumenting application telemetry data to make it observable. OpenTelemetry is a free and open source take on observability. Especially if you have custom applications that rely on APIs to integrate with other services.

Metrics

Metrics Open Source Traffic Cache

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

Perform 2023 Guide: Organizations mine efficiencies with automation, causal AI

What is application security monitoring?

Trending Sources

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

Unlock the Power of DevSecOps with Newly Released Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering

What the SEC cybersecurity disclosure mandate means for application security

Optimize resource utilization of your Kubernetes clusters with SLOs

Three ways intelligent automation can advance release validation and break down DevSecOps silos

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

A Kubernetes platform engineering strategy tames Kubernetes complexity

The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

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

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

The top eight DevSecOps trends in 2022

What is cloud application security?

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

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

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

IT carbon footprint: Dynatrace Carbon Impact and Optimization app helps organizations measure cloud computing carbon footprint

OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

OpenTelemetry observability and Dynatrace deliver actionable answers at scale

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

What is DORA? The application security and reliability implications of the Digital Operational Resilience Act

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

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

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

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

OpenTelemetry logs in Grail unlock full observability

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

How to Monitor Online InnoDB Buffer Pool Resizing

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

RSA guide 2024: AI and security are top concerns for organizations in every industry

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

Custom Percona Monitoring and Management Dashboards

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

New Versions of Percona Distribution for MongoDB, Percona Operator for MySQL: Release Roundup September 18, 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 Distribution for MySQL 8.0.33, Percona Server for MySQL: Release Roundup June 26, 2023

Percona Live 2023 Call For Papers Open!

The road to observability with OpenTelemetry demo part 1: Identifying metrics and traces

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

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