Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Reviews

Summary: I will recommend everyone to give it a try.

Positive: Too many good and useful features come really handy.

Negative: The user integration part could have been better.

Summary: I highly recommend this software to anyone who is running a database - the odds are high that PMM will uncover new metrics you hadn't considered. This is doubly (or higher) so if you run a cluster.

Positive: When running a DB cluster you need to be able to see the whole picture rather than individual problems on a per box basis. PMM has changed how my team measure performance and diagnose issues. Getting real time visibility on many of these previously hidden attributes in production has been a real help to my team.

Negative: Setup was a little work but not too complex. My biggest gripe is this tool has unlocked stats I'm struggling to find meaning from. In this case I would love to see some more articles covering the more esoteric stats I'm suddenly presented with.

Summary: It supports multiple databases like mysql, postgres, mongodb, cloud instances like rds is awesome. Single platform for multiple databases.

Positive: It is one stop solution to simplify monitoring management by reducing complexity. Very easy to debug with complete insight about what's happening inside databases.

Negative: Upgrade from older version to newer version was not as easy as expected. Specially major version upgrade.

Summary: We still chose PMM, since we could integrate it with few tweaks into our existing prometheus-setup/ldap authentication and alerting.

Positive: Technically PMM gives a great overview over your databases, especially the query-monitor.
Makes it easy toe debug , especially in multi-user shared databases.
Haven't seen anything similar complete/insightful so far.

Negative: Although we are still using v1 because too many labels have changed/need to be added.
Integration into existing Grafana/Prometheus could be easier.