Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Reviews

Summary: PMM is a handy solution for an admin. It has superb dashboards and easy to implement with your systems. I used PMM for MongoDB, PostgreSQL. It can give you all metrics about application with ease. You can track operations, latencies, replication status and so on. Strongly advised!

Positive: Built-in dashboards with details, ready to use agents and exporters, community and professional support.

Negative: I wish it can monitor Windows systems as well as Linux.

Summary: Great experience as it has a better working with MYSQL and MongoDB which helps lots on databases and its most important part of industry and PMM make the work easy and time saving as it easy to use and work on with an impressive user interaction. And a good tools for databases  as it provides help in working with schemas of the tables and give a better view of the connection between tables.

Positive: Its is used in our managing all the projects and products of our company and its life saving which saves with the problem of management and it works like perfect with MYSQL and saves labour in troubleshooting the queries of the database and give a deep drive view of the database without much work.

Negative: Configuration can be improved with some fine tuning.

Summary: Overall it is a great tool for seeing everything happening in our environments and it is very easy to use.

Positive: PMM is very easy to use and intuitive. The graphs out of the box are helpful and setting up new graphs is not difficult. It is great to see everything happening in our system.

Negative: Not much. It would be nice to hide the features we are not using.

Summary: PMM is one of the most popular open source tool to monitor various databases and applications.Actually we are using PMM in a mixed environment with Percona server for MySQl, ProxySql and MongoDB. It provides realtime metrics and it will give good insight on what is happening the database.
Now it's available to AWS marketplace.I already started my testing in AWS PMM instances, the deployment is quite easy and pricing is very honourable.

Positive: In PMM mostly I like QAN, because it makes a very detailed analysis of the query performance.

PMM provides more custom dashboards and the integration is quite easy.
It's an agent based monitoring and it provide realtime metrics to give a good insight what is happening in the database.

Negative: In my point of view there is no Cons.

Summary: A secure and reliable open-source application for monitoring and management of databases like MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc. Has many other tool integration features.

Positive: Database management and monitoring, management of databases like MySQL, MongoDB. Available on the open source platform.

Negative: Using it for 6 months and could not find any such flaw. Great Tool.

Summary: Super cool, visibility, highly recommended to you all, if you want a balance in monitoring and DB visibility.

Positive: My visibility was increased in monitoring as well the ability to solve and debug problems close to real time as well INT and PRD environments.

Negative: Learning curve could be tough, but beyond that is easy to set up and always you find a path.

Summary: PMM has helped me in monitoring thousand of database servers "MySQL" at one place which has decreased the complexity of my system. I have been using PMM for a long time now and the Dashboard provides a great overview of general server health and law. You get to watch if there are many queries when you get a problem. Its community support is very good and provides great data and information.

Positive: The most valuable and secure features are the warning critical levels.
Everything has its graphs by category.
Easy enough to customized and deploy.
Very in-depth metrics for MySQL, DBaaS, ProxySQL.

Negative: No cons work well for me.

Summary: We have monitored many servers using this tool, and we have gotten good results.It has many functions to monitor your cloud applications. Over time it has allowed us to address specific recurring performance problems that we might not have been able to easily track down.

Positive: Excellent tool to monitor various applications, comes with a flexible monitor to track various instances. Integration is possible with lots of other tools. You can extract data from other services, and clusters, that we often use to analyze the usage. PMM allowed us to have the critical hidden information about our server usage.

Negative: User Interface and UX need an update. I feel like certain sections are quite complicated.

Summary: Overall my experience is good with this tool. My organization has really liked this tool and it helped a lot.

Positive: Overall the best tool I have across, Me and my team has really liked this tool. I will surely recommend.

Negative: I don't like too much Grafana. Time to time the server simply lost my changes.

Summary: 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.

Positive: We can identify issues way better.
We can identify blocking queries faster.
We can run it fully on-premises.
Easy to deploy.
Easy to use.
Nice interface.

Negative: - Setting up alerts is still complicated.
- scaling/HA for larger deployment is not supported yet.

Summary: All the features which are best for all are:
- Query Analytics (QAN)
- Beautiful UI
- Great metrics of MySQL
- Easy alert manager in PMM2
- Easy to deploy
- Easy server setup

Positive: Beautiful UI and Great metrics of MySQL,
We can deploy in less than 5 minutes.
We can configure it for multiple users also.

Negative: Alert manager is somewhat difficult in PMM1, but it is good in PMM2

Summary: Satisfied with the tools completely and is very much easy to use. I must suggest to use this, it will help you a lot.

Positive: Easy to use. And very light weight, open sourced and the community is also active. I am actively using this and don't find much difficulties.

Negative: Query monitor needs to be improved. And also the User Interface get much better.

Summary: Good product.
Easy to use.
MySQL, dashboard provides a great overview and Details dashboards as well. Easy to update and patches.

Positive: Easy to install and use. lightweight plugins.
Comes with great all Grafana Dashboards.
Great tool for Mysql Monitoring.

Negative: Not easy with Cloud managed PaaS mysql. Need to integrate with cloud solutions. Not direct way.

Summary: It provided a thorough time-based analysis for MySQL and MongoDB servers that ensure that my data works as efficiently as possible.

Positive: Easy to use / install/ configure.

Active community support.

Frequent updates and patches.
It's open source.

Negative: Helps to give in depth view to Developers and DBA.

Summary: Overall great package with clear pricing structure and support documents. There were few minor hiccups but we were able troubleshoot all the issues by going through the doc section

Positive: The organisation where I worked uses multiple databases to optimize the load performance. Percona Monitoring and management was used to monitor security perception, reporting structures and optimize use of DB. Overall, it got a great task for these points. There is a slight learning curve too but you can manage it with lots of resources and docs.

Negative: User Interface and UX needs to get an update. Overall certain section becomes quite complicated.