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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

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What is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a highly sophisticated open-source solution that helps businesses manage their database environments effectively. It simplifies the overall management process, reduces complexity and optimizes performance by quickly identifying issues that may impact business...

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Perhaps the best FREE thing I've found for several years

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 15, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use PMM in both our development and IT teams to monitor our database. The tool allows us to trace performance and discover optimisation opportunities, which provides signif...
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Professional
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)1 year of experience

Versatile platform with bundles of amazing features

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 17, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The most prominent thing is that [Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)] has greatly reduced much of the complexities by simplifying management. It has made deployment very ...
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Delphine Jakab
Administrator - Professional Services
Senior Business Controller
wehkamp
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)2 years of experience

Need an open-source, free monitoring tool for MySQL? Nothing's better than PMM.

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 29, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL. We, as database consultants, appreciate anything that helps us visualizin...
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Verified user
Consultant
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)4 years of experience

One of the best solutions for monitoring and metrics in databases

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 16, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) offers us a very complete view of everything that happens, allowing us to select the time intervals we want to study and individually s...
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Jose Manuel Ortega
Technician - Research & Development
Software Engineer && Security researcher
UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)1 year of experience

Best Open source monitoring solutions for MySQL.

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 3, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Percona Monitoring and Management has helped in monitoring thousand of database servers "MySQL" in one place which has decreased the complexity of our system. I like to do an ...
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Rahul Maurya
Engineer - Information Technology
AWS Educate core team member
AWS Educate Student Community India
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)1 year of experience

PMM is your best choice when looking for an Open Source monitoring solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 22, 2020
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We monitor hundreds of database servers (MySQL) with PMM and we has been actively using it on prod since the first betas. It's extremely helpful, easy to deploy and it makes p...
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Miklos Szel
Consultant - Engineering
Senior Database Architect
Edmodo
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)4 years of experience

PMM MySQL Observability champion

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 6, 2020
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We are using PMM across the whole organization. It's addressing the problem of observability. We have improved our MTTD and Capacity planning using USE method on top of PMM. T...
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Anil Yadav
Manager - Information Technology
Senior Engineering Manager (Site Reliability Engineering)
Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd)
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)3 years of experience
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What is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a free, open-source database monitoring and management solution. It helps enterprises reduce complexity and simplify management, while optimizing performance and improving the security of business-critical database environments - on-premises or in the…

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  • No setup fee
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Product Details

What is Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)?

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is a highly sophisticated open-source solution that helps businesses manage their database environments effectively. It simplifies the overall management process, reduces complexity and optimizes performance by quickly identifying issues that may impact business operations. PMM has innovative tools which improve data security, reduce the risk of exposure and prevent potential outages in your database systems.

This software's primary objective is to provide users with a single platform to efficiently monitor databases' health status, including troubleshooting bottlenecks and scaling issues without vendor lock-in or exorbitant fees. It seamlessly integrates both on-premises and cloud-based databases into one centralized location for easy access. Thousands of companies worldwide trust PMM to ensure that their complex database environments are functioning smoothly while maintaining high levels of security standards. Percona's team provides customers with enterprise-class software, support, consulting services along with training options from seasoned professionals who operate globally in more than 35 countries worldwide.

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Features

  • Supported: Alerts and notifications
  • Supported: Dashboard
  • Supported: Query Analysis
  • Supported: Anomaly Detection
  • Supported: Troubleshooting
  • Supported: Resource Optimization
  • Supported: Performance Monitoring
  • Supported: Historical Trend Analysis
  • Supported: Dependency Tracking
  • Supported: Access Controls/Permissions
  • Supported: Prioritization

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Screenshots

Screenshot of PMM Home DashboardScreenshot of PMM Query AnalyticsScreenshot of PMM PostgreSQLScreenshot of PMM MySQL Amazon Aurora Details

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Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Integrations

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Perhaps the best FREE thing I've found for several years

Rating: 9 out of 10
September 15, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use PMM in both our development and IT teams to monitor our database. The tool allows us to trace performance and discover optimisation opportunities, which provides significant cost savings over upgrading the platform as we grow our business. Before we integrated PMM we were reliant on standard tools to manually investigate production state, variables and other metrics.
Pros and Cons
  • Visibility of performance between cluster nodes.
  • Presents less obvious metrics.
  • Very customisable.
Likelihood to Recommend
Databases work great when fresh and clean but over the years you seem to encounter more and more performance issues. Over-enthusiastic developers brimming with confidence can quickly overload tables with indexes or make changes without thinking about scenarios outside their ticket. Business growth can lead to server strain if you aren't monitoring your infra vigilantly. Queries that once worked well can suffer over time and you need a good tool to dig in to the data. PMM is excellent for these kinds of use-cases.

I initially found the vast quantity of data presented to be overwhelming, but that is where I needed to raise my knowledge to understand the DB internals better. If you feel you don't know enough about your database performance the dashboards will keep you busy for a while. The Query Analytics tool may also be insightful. My only gripe is I wish there was more documentation on explaining some of the data for less experienced MySQL users.



Versatile platform with bundles of amazing features

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
May 17, 2021
DJ
Delphine Jakab
Senior Business Controller
wehkamp (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
The most prominent thing is that [Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)] has greatly reduced much of the complexities by simplifying management. It has made deployment very easy for us. It keeps on adding new features in order to bring ease for the users. There is the availability of many unique features that makes my work easier for me. I am having a very positive experience with this software because it is playing a great role in my department. In my opinion, this tool is enriched with maximum features for effective management of monitoring of MySQL.
Pros and Cons
  • It serves us in the best ways. It has given us a golden opportunity to deeply looking at time-based analysis in order to make sure whether the data system is working perfectly or not.
  • It can be set up straightforwardly without any hurdle. It always gives a smooth performance with much accuracy. It keeps on making innovations by adding new features as well as default dashboards for meeting all of our needs.
  • The most impressive thing about this tool is that it consists of a huge number of incomparable features such as the Live supporting feature, Alerting feature, tracking, communication dashboard, and many other beneficial features too.
Likelihood to Recommend
I suggest you try [Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)] at least once. Afterward, it will make you feel relaxed. It really works and gives you more than your expectations. It is equipped with multiple latest and advanced tools that will fully satisfy you. So obviously there will be no need to concern other devices. It is an excellent data management solution and also it is the best monitoring device than any other.

Need an open-source, free monitoring tool for MySQL? Nothing's better than PMM.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 29, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is an open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL. We, as database consultants, appreciate anything that helps us visualizing the environment, be it local, remote, or cloud-based. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) provides us with historical monitoring, making it possible to debug current issues as well as identify trends. It is open source and free. Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) also includes an alerting mechanism. Importantly, it is well supported and easy to set up.
Pros and Cons
  • Graphs the database parameters well
  • Slow query identification
  • Alerting
Likelihood to Recommend
If you're looking for an open-source and free monitoring solution for MySQL, MonogoDB, or Postgres, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is right choice. The metrics plotted helped in doing RCAs for many issues and also assist in identifying trends. Query Analytics enables you to ensure database queries are monitored for optimal performance. It also monitors ProxySQL and RDS instances.

One of the best solutions for monitoring and metrics in databases

Rating: 7 out of 10
December 16, 2020
JM
Jose Manuel Ortega
Software Engineer && Security researcher
UA - Universidad de Alicante / Universitat d'Alacant (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) offers us a very complete view of everything that happens, allowing us to select the time intervals we want to study and individually select the database we want to see, thus improving the user experience.

"Metrics Monitor" & "Query Analitycs" are two interesting functionalities that allow us to detect problems in the performance of our queries, in addition to providing proactive information on possible performance problems in the future if what it shows us reaches the production teams with those that interact with our clients or the administrators of our company. The set of graphics and elements to select gives us great ease when configuring the dashboard to our liking and covering many of the company's needs.
Pros and Cons
  • Measure the time and performance of queries made in a database
  • Integration with tools like Prometheus with the aim of storing information based on time
  • Monitor our databases in the cloud, as well as optimize the performance of the database, improving the usability of customer applications
Likelihood to Recommend
One of the main advantages is the integration with tools like Prometheus with the aim of storing information based on time. In addition, it offers a good interaction with the different agents using a REST API to show the results in Grafana dashboards.

Best Open source monitoring solutions for MySQL.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 03, 2020
RM
Rahul Maurya
AWS Educate core team member
AWS Educate Student Community India (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Percona Monitoring and Management has helped in monitoring thousand of database servers "MySQL" in one place which has decreased the complexity of our system. I like to do an Advanced Configuration, there is more option available to customize. I think the most valuable and secure features are the warning critical levels. For example, in one case we were looking to alert of CPU usage - and if it's over 60% in an average period of time then it's not entrusting, and if it's over 90% it's critical, which you can specify the values that are best for your application. It's easy to use and deploy with a Beautiful GUI with Grafana and has Zabbix integration.
Pros and Cons
  • Everything has its graphs by category
  • Easy enough to customized and deploy
  • Very in depth metrics for MySQL, DBaaS, ProxySQL
Likelihood to Recommend
My experience with PMM has been excellent it helps us monitoring a variety of applications such as MYSQL and MongoDB.
1. its value the ability to look at trending data history.
2. Great monitoring tools and it's free
3. Has an easy and simple solution for complex databases
5. Best for alert solution for MYSQL and MongoDB.

PMM is your best choice when looking for an Open Source monitoring solution

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
October 22, 2020
MS
Miklos Szel
Senior Database Architect
Edmodo (Education Management, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
4 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We monitor hundreds of database servers (MySQL) with PMM and we has been actively using it on prod since the first betas. It's extremely helpful, easy to deploy and it makes possible for the whole OPS team to check the status of the DB layer. The Query Analyzer is the only Open Source query visualization tool that is being developed and it's also useful when hunting for problematic/resource intensive queries.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy to deploy.
  • Easy to use.
  • Nice interface.
Likelihood to Recommend
There are no other open source tools out there that could compete with PMM in its league. If you use MySQL (or PostgreSQL, ProxySQL) you can have a running monitoring in a couple of minutes. The agents are not really resource intensive and Percona provides a repo for most of the main Linux distributions. The documentation is thorough and straightforward. The defaults are good!

PMM MySQL Observability champion

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 06, 2020
AY
Anil Yadav
Senior Engineering Manager (Site Reliability Engineering)
Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd) (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using PMM across the whole organization. It's addressing the problem of observability. We have improved our MTTD and Capacity planning using USE method on top of PMM. The current version of PMM also supports the RED method graphs which helps to improve RCA Process. The inbuilt graphs are covering all details about MySQL/Mongo and Postgres.
Pros and Cons
  • Simple UI
  • Deep dive of MySQL internal graphs
  • Detailed graphs of Database internals and System
Likelihood to Recommend
PMM is well suited for all environments where MySQL/Mongo and Postgres is being used.
1. Organization that loves opensource.
2. Organization those are fast pace
3. Who believes in blameless RCA

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