Chapter 2:
PMM: The Bridge Between Architectures
Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) serves as the unified observability layer that bridges the gap between cloud-native and traditional environments. Whether you use operators, use servers, or use both, PMM provides a consistent single pane of glass.
- Universal Monitoring: PMM collects deep-dive metrics from databases running on bare metal, virtual machines, or inside Kubernetes pods.
- Infrastructure Independence: Because PMM is self-hosted within your own trust boundary, your performance data remains yours. It does not live in a vendor’s database.
- Cross-Platform Visibility: You can monitor a legacy MySQL cluster on standard servers alongside a new PostgreSQL deployment on Kubernetes without switching tools or contexts.
