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What is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open source database observability, monitoring, and management tool. It allows database users to observe the health of their systems, explore new patterns in database behavior, quickly troubleshoot issues, and perform database management operations no matter where they are located - on-premises or in the cloud. PMM insights help catch and fix database issues before they start affecting end-users, enabling Developers, DBAs & SREs to focus on important projects instead of spending most of their time hunting down the root cause of the database performance degradation or downtime incidents.

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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, best-of-breed, open source database monitoring and management solution. It helps enterprises reduce complexity and simplify management, while optimizing performance and improving the security of your business-critical database environments, no matter where they are located - on-premises or in the cloud. PMM allows you to identify the issues that impact your business, fast! Our single platform simplifies management and reduces complexity. It helps you optimize your database by allowing you to easily find, fix, and prevent issues with scaling, bottlenecks and potential outages. Our innovative tools improve data security and reduce your risk of data exposure. PMM is used by thousands of organizations around the globe to manage their complex database environments. Percona is a market leader in providing best-of-breed enterprise-class software, support, consulting, managed services, and training for on-premise and cloud-based open source databases. Percona was founded on the belief that everyone should have access to scalable, secure, efficient, and resilient database software features, without inflated fees or vendor lock-in. Our global network of experts spans more than 35 countries and we have assisted over 3,000 clients worldwide.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Percona Monitoring and Management helps database users spot critical performance issues faster, understand the root cause of these problems better, and resolve them more efficiently.

A community of database performance experts backs PMM with 100 years of collective industry expertise. Installed on over 4M instances and used by businesses that can not afford downtime, PMM is open source and provides users with freedom from vendor lock-in, deployment (whenever & wherever), and limitless scalability.


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Percona
Year Founded
2006
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Durham, North Carolina
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@Percona
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Recent Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Reviews

PAVANKUMAR H.
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PAVANKUMAR H.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"PMM tool made DBA & SYSTEM admin life easy."
I have just started using the PMM Tool (for the last 2 Months). Excellent with real-time monitoring of ALL DBs under one place, also monitor OS st...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"DBA"
content was very useful. I realized with this presentation, PMM can very important tool.
Ajinkya M.
AM
Ajinkya M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Review of Percona Monitoring and Management tool"
Percona Monitoring and Management tool is one of the best tool for monitoring multiple services we use it for mostly monitoring vms using node e...

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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Demo - Get Granular Insights into Database Behavior for In-depth Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization
The Query Analytics tool comes with an intuitive interface and a rich set of features to help you quickly focus on the most relevant and important information, allowing you to analyze and optimize your queries
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Demo - Optimize Database Performance
Get at-a-glance observability into key database KPIs (from node to query level) and essential database management functions, such as alerting & backups.
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Demo - Improve Data Security
Innovative security tools reduce data exposure risk by helping you easily run security checks, identify unexpected database queries, and track database security scans and remediation, reducing your chances of data exposure.
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PAVANKUMAR H.
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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

I have just started using the PMM Tool (for the last 2 Months). Excellent with real-time monitoring of ALL DBs under one place, also monitor OS statistics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Nothing as of now. Highly awaiting for version that include xtrabackup included in PMM. also Please implement xtrabackup daily email alerts after completing backup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our organization utilizes a Tungsten multi-active active cluster, comprising over 10 clusters and 30+ active MySQL databases. Manually managing such a complex environment is a daunting task; however, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) simplifies this process by providing a centralized dashboard for comprehensive monitoring of all MySQL database instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubham S.
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MYSQL Database Administrator
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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Query analysis part which help us a lot to know cost of the Query and inndb buffer pool graph,db replication status, temp table uses , parallel select query performance ,best part is graphical representation for uses of IO threads on server .

this all makes a good mixture for MySQL DBA it makes my job easier to manage each and every instance manually i get lot of things at same point

We are Monitoring more than 26 instance ,i can compare each and every instance on sever level , configuration level. Which are one of the best part for us . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Till now i did not face any down side for PMM. But in query analysis part there should be a section user,host info like from which it's coming somthing we are not able to identify.

And also big queries syntax are not showing in QA section. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Slowness of sever so with help of PMM we are able to debug slow queries

2. Configuration part which show us where we are lagging

3.high hits and load at specific time of interval we are able to debug

4.logs alerts helps alot Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ajinkya M.
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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Percona Monitoring and Management tool is one of the best tool for monitoring multiple services we use it for mostly monitoring vms using node exporter , black box exporter, mysql & MongoDB exporter Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

need to modify how to use exporters with little bit more installation steups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Percona Monitoring and Management tool solves the problem of monitoring system display & setup of alerts & we will check to monitor visually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hemang T.
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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

PMM tool's best feature is Easy can be integrated with Self-host DB as well as On Cloud Database services. the metrics which configure mosty for Mysql are the best in the segment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Alert Configuration with PagerDuty or with any messaging Channel like slack looks not possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Based on the PMM graph Database monitoring is become very easy, based on the graph metrics we can able to identify the issue not current but proactively, so future issues can be avoided based on timeseriase trends. the good part of PMM is PMM Query Analytics which gives the near real idea about the slow query, and table scan query metrics. so based on that we can fix the slow log query. and lot more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Percona PMM is free and utilizes open source solutions to implement state-of-the-art monitoring and alerting solutions for your entire database infrastructure and applications. Upgrade and installation is easy and has less operations overhead. It is not agent-based, and data can be selected from the performance schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

It can be clumsy sometimes, and dashboard navigation is complex and not intuitive. In addition, the reading graph is hard and can be confusing sometimes. It has its own learning curve, and user needs time to get used to the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Monitoring systems are very costly, and Percona PMM is free. So cost friendly is a significant benefit for using PMM software. In addition, operations overhead such as installation and upgradation is significantly less for our DBA team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul K.
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Group Information Technology Manager
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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

The ability to drill down to any aspect of the database infrastructure. From local server performance to database connections and even query analytics, it has the ability to do it all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

The network bandwidth required to get all the information necessary makes it a fairly heavy application. Running it locally to the server helps prevent that data going over the internet though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Percona Monitoring and Management helps give us an insight into how well our MySQL servers are performing and is invaluable when trying to diagnose any problems within our systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

1> Lots of targets can be added e.g. ProxySQL , Azure MySQL, Postgres etc..

2> It's FREE !!!!!

3> Good and precise documentation over the internet.

4> Good support from Percona team if any issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

1> It can be slow to render. We have thousands of databases and millions of tables. In such env. Percona PMM doesn't work well.

2> Navigation is also clumsy sometimes

3> Query Analytics needs improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

1> For new technologies like proxysql it gives native monitoring support. We dont need any plugins support or anything

2> Its cost friendly to us.

3> It has good alerting and monitoring mechanisms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Devendra P.
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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

PMM is the most power full tool for monitoring and management, I used it for a long time for Performance Database and Monitoring of Database, it is open source and requires support by Percona. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Nothing any dislike as of now, We have already used PMM tool for a long time in my current project so good Database Monitoring and Performance of the Database. As my experience, not any dislike is there on PMM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Database Monitoring and Query Performance, Monitoring DB logs report, Database Memory Performance and Online schema change via Percona tool kit included in PMM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicolas L.
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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Lot of details on Mariadb and InnoDB metrics, slow queries analyses.

Good precision of metrics in different time windows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

With latest upgrades slow queries are truncated so some query are no mo analysable and detailed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it to trouble shooting Mariadb miss configuration, and find optimisation of queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

PMM provide full visualisation package where we can view each and every required metrics which very helpful to troubleshoot the issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

I like this monitoring tool which provides a complete solution using Prometheus/Grafana for the mongo/mysql metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its solving the any production issues and able to deep dive using this metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.