Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) Reviews

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

In my point of view there is no Cons.

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

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.

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

Good tool.

PMM provide wide range of options in monitoring the real time status and it is very helpful in performance tuning.

PMM does not have alerting mechanism.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I have used the Percona monitoring tool for 3 years. It is the baseline tool for our performance analysis, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement of our RDS database layer on AWS. The level of detail and granularity of the information that I obtain at the level of Queries, Use of resources and others is exceptional. Tool that has served both the DBAs and the Day 2 of Operations team.

The granularity of the details for queries, time-based analysis to help to improve the overall performance of our databases.

Perhaps the updates of the product in the marketplace are not frequent enough for the expected.

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.

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.

No cons work well for me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I would recommend the product. It's good.

Nice GUI and user friendly for someone who isn't necessarily tech savvy.

Required some technical skills to deploy and use.

Graphical interface for historic data is very good to monitor.
It collects the OS and Database level metrics which will be helpful to customers for future action.

It would be great help if we get an alerting system from PMM . As discussed with Percona team , we are waiting for the same in the future release.

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.

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.

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.

"Metrics Monitor" & "Query Analytics" are two interesting functionalities that allow us to detect problems in the performance of our queries, in addition to providing proactive information on performance problems.

Metrics Monitor offers us all the metrics related to the status of our database: CPU, memory consumed, number of connections to the database, status of the tables, users, etc. Almost all of the information we need about monitoring our database. To do this, it integrates with different tools oriented to data monitoring using time series such as Prometheus or Grafana.

Query Analytics is also a tool that gives us value a differentiating value that aims to measure the time and performance of queries made in a database. All critical queries for our business are monitored in real time, from inserting a new record, checking the status of an order or displaying the catalog of our services on the screen to show them to a client.

Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) is compatible with different types of databases like MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL. In addition, it also has options to monitor our databases in the cloud, as well as optimize the performance of the database, improving the usability of customer applications.

Another of the main advantages is the integration with tools like Prometheus with the aim of storing information based on time. In addition, it offers a good interaction with the different agents using a REST API to show the results in Grafana dashboards.

It would be interesting to add support to more monitoring tools and improve the notification system so that there are more customization options.

Love it! It's very easy to use and develop good looking dashboards to share information with fellow users.

Super easy to setup the server and link clients. It's a must have for your monitoring tool belt.

We have some custom simplified dashboards that are also easy to setup, due to the use of standard tools (grafana and Prometheus)

No upgrade path from v1 to V2 is a little annoying.

Overall experience is good and I really enjoy it because this product give you friendly environment and easy to understand.

I like to use this product because I am using this product very first time which is very easy and friendly to use.

I really don't like this product because there is only one drop back which is lacking.