Tales From A Lazy Fat DBA

Hi Guys,

For one of our customer we recently moved from on-prem to AWS cloud and we moved our entire infrastructure along with our MySQL & PostgreSQL Clusters. The very next question that started bothering us is to look out for any solid, stable and reliable monitoring and performance management tool, and then we learned about Percona’s Monitoring & Management Server (PMM).

After trying the setup we are pretty satisfied with it’s performance as it fulfils all our expectations from any monitoring tool to monitor our applications and databases. We found the product best in terms of Cost (comes with an hourly price of only $ 0.10/hr), highly secure (with SSL encryption) and offers some really cool and smart features.
There are many features what it offers, but being a long time Performance Consultant (DBA) I personally found the ‘Query Analytics’ section more useful and impressive. It has got everything what you need to know for your real-time workload, it provides an in-depth analysis of your queries i.e. execution plan, latency information, query fingerprints etc. This can provide very useful at the time when you have any problem in hand and want to deep dive in and want to know what all is going on with your system at the statement level.

It has got great integration with Grafana platform too, great data visualizations in the form of dashboards etc.

I will recommend this tool for people who are looking for any good stable monitoring platform along with performance administration tool. Not only for PostgreSQL & MySQL but it’s available for other platforms too like Amazon RDS MySQL, Amazon Aurora MySQL, MongoDB, Percona XtraDB Cluster and ProxySQL.

It’s available on both AWS and Azure markets.

Link to AWS Marketplace : https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B077J7FYGX?qid=1605533229523&sr=0-1&ref_=srh_res_product_title

Link to Azure Marketplace: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/percona.pmm_2?tab=Overview

Hope It Helped!

Prashant Dixit