Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
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Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
5d ago
Welcome to the ultimate guide on how to boost your database performance! We’ve designed it to help you understand and improve the performance of your databases, regardless of your level of experience as a DBA or whether you manage databases for a small or large company.We’ll cover a number of very important topics, such as ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
2w ago
February 2024 marked the end of life (EOL) of MongoDB 4.4.Another year, another EOL, is a fitting summary. Time goes by fast, and looking from this perspective, 5.0 is one we will soon also say goodbye to, as this year, 5.0 is also going EOL in October.Why is MongoDB 4.4 EOL significant?In case you and ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
2w ago
With all the convenience Kubernetes operators provide in managing resources, it can still be a challenge to conveniently store, query, manage, and download the database logs from the pods. Since the pod logs are rotated after a certain period or size depending on the configuration and workload, it’s necessary to collect them to analyze for ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
2w ago
When you design a backup strategy, you need to think about the business requirements, as you will need to shape your backups to meet them. Let’s review the basics briefly; you need to define the RPO and RTO. The RPO stands for “Recovery Point Objective”, which means how far back you will be able to ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
3w ago
One of the most common tasks for database administrators is checking logs; you can either work directly with the file or process it using another tool. Either way, regularly checking the logs remains essential. Within this context, certain log messages occasionally begin to appear, yet, unfortunately, there isn’t much literature on some of them; that’s because ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
3w ago
Percona Server for MongoDB currently has several external authentication options, such as LDAP with SASL, LDAP, Kerberos, and AWS IAM. What is amazing is that SASL can authenticate with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) too. This means that you still have additional external authentication options to choose from through PAM libraries.For a quick demonstration of PAM ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
1M ago
Indexes in MongoDB play a crucial role in improving the query performance and increasing the overall database efficiency. Without indexes, MongoDB will perform a collection scan, i.e., it will read all the documents to find if they match the condition specified in the query and cause low response time. Indexes help in navigating directly to ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
1M ago
Before MongoDB 4.4, we had a tool to use to analyze slow queries from the log file called mplotqueries from mtools (thanks, Thomas Rueckstiess, for the tool and the inspiration).Mplotqueries is a great tool that helped analyze slow queries on MongoDB Community, Enterprise, and Percona for MongoDB versions. But when MongoDB 4.4 was released and ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
1M ago
Those memes that were super popular a couple of years ago show how you, your family, friends, and boss see your job vs. what you actually do. “Making sure we’re doing the right things” — that’s a one-sentence catchphrase I tell my relatives when asked what is Product Management all about.With a tool like Percona ..read more
Percona Database Performance Blog | MongoDB
2M ago
Backups are crucial for every database system, and having a reliable, fast, and hot backup is the demand for next-generation database systems. Percona Backup for MongoDB (PBM) is a backup management tool that enhances the existing backup capability of MongoDB by providing various layers of backups such as physical, logical, incremental, PITR, etc.In this blog ..read more