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Need an open-source, free monitoring tool for MySQL? Nothing's better than PMM.
December 29, 2020

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

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

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.
  • Graphs the database parameters well
  • Slow query identification
  • Alerting
  • System requirements are not easy to guess (especially for larger systems).
  • Allowed us to trace and identify a few of the patterns in the statuses
  • Identified slow queries for fixtures
Vividcortex is nice but is costly.
Datadog loses for me on the UI front and, of course, it will be a charged product.
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) has been best blend of technologies and is supported by the Percona community very well.

Do you think Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) again?

Yes

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.