# Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

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## [About the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) category](https://forums.percona.com/t/about-the-percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-category/35)

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**Author:** [@system](https://forums.percona.com/u/system)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 30, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/about-the-percona-monitoring-and-management-pmm-category/35 "2020-12-30T16:18:22Z")

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For questions on the Percona Monitoring & Management (PMM) console.

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## [PMM - disk latency graph](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-disk-latency-graph/41290)

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**Author:** [@Andrey\_Virus](https://forums.percona.com/u/Andrey_Virus)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2026, 3:17pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-disk-latency-graph/41290 "2026-09-29T15:17:30Z")

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In PMM there is a “Disk Latency” graph. Its description says: Shows average latency for read and write IO operations. Higher than typical latency for highly loaded storage indicates saturation (overload) and is a frequ…

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## [Connection monitor in PMM](https://forums.percona.com/t/connection-monitor-in-pmm/41079)

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**Author:** [@Sai\_Teja\_Varma](https://forums.percona.com/u/Sai_Teja_Varma)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/connection-monitor-in-pmm/41079 "2026-09-18T13:58:45Z")

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Hi All, I have created a tool which creates Per-client-IP connection monitoring for MongoDB with PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management). This tool fills a gap in PMM’s built-in mongodb\_exporter, which reports total con…

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## [Help shape PMM navigation (5 minutes, anonymous test)](https://forums.percona.com/t/help-shape-pmm-navigation-5-minutes-anonymous-test/41277)

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**Author:** [@pedro.fernandes](https://forums.percona.com/u/pedro.fernandes)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 18, 2026, 12:51pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/help-shape-pmm-navigation-5-minutes-anonymous-test/41277 "2026-09-18T12:51:47Z")

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Hi everyone, I’m Pedro, product designer on PMM. We’re rethinking how you find things in PMM, and before we build anything we want to check the new structure against the people who actually run databases with PMM every …

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## [PMM password policy](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-password-policy/41248)

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**Author:** [@dbaengg](https://forums.percona.com/u/dbaengg)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 7, 2026, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-password-policy/41248 "2026-09-07T11:00:34Z")

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We use PMM for our monitoring solutions. For a security compliance we have been asked about the password policy of our user creation in PMM. request you to share us the password policy or if the feature will arrive at a …

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## [Python cryptography package version in docker image is outdated and vulnerable?](https://forums.percona.com/t/python-cryptography-package-version-in-docker-image-is-outdated-and-vulnerable/41233)

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**Author:** [@jnicol](https://forums.percona.com/u/jnicol)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [September 3, 2026, 8:30am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/python-cryptography-package-version-in-docker-image-is-outdated-and-vulnerable/41233 "2026-09-03T08:30:37Z")

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Hello, Our security scanning tool is reporting a high severity vulnerability on the version of python cryptography bundled in the docker image (PMM version 3.9.1). This has been open for some time and the package has n…

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## [Using multiple PMM servers with one client](https://forums.percona.com/t/using-multiple-pmm-servers-with-one-client/5923)

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**Author:** [@undertaker](https://forums.percona.com/u/undertaker)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2026, 1:33pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/using-multiple-pmm-servers-with-one-client/5923 "2026-09-01T13:33:34Z")

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Is there a way to use one client with several PMM servers, e.g. one on local network and other somewhere in the cloud?

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## [PMM not starting after upgrade to 3.9.1](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-not-starting-after-upgrade-to-3-9-1/41211)

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**Author:** [@FabricioPedrosoJorge](https://forums.percona.com/u/FabricioPedrosoJorge)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [August 27, 2026, 12:23pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-not-starting-after-upgrade-to-3-9-1/41211 "2026-08-27T12:23:40Z")

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Hello Percona team, after performing an upgrade from PMM 3.7.1 to 3.9.1 (Docker) the upgrated container is not coming up with no apparent reasons. Running a “docker logs ” I get this: Running as UID 1000 Creating ngin…

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## [Native Solution for Per-Query Latency Percentiles (P90/P95/P99) at DB Level in MySQL 8.0/8.4 with PMM — Request for Guidance](https://forums.percona.com/t/native-solution-for-per-query-latency-percentiles-p90-p95-p99-at-db-level-in-mysql-8-0-8-4-with-pmm-request-for-guidance/41124)

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**Author:** [@pravata\_dash](https://forums.percona.com/u/pravata_dash)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [August 3, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/native-solution-for-per-query-latency-percentiles-p90-p95-p99-at-db-level-in-mysql-8-0-8-4-with-pmm-request-for-guidance/41124 "2026-08-03T17:07:19Z")

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Dear Percona Support / Engineering Team, We are currently investigating a significant observability gap and would like your guidance on whether a native or PMM-integrated solution exists. pmm-server version: 2.39.0 my…

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## [Grpc: the client connection is closing](https://forums.percona.com/t/grpc-the-client-connection-is-closing/40884)

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**Author:** [@acho](https://forums.percona.com/u/acho)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [July 20, 2026, 7:52pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/grpc-the-client-connection-is-closing/40884 "2026-07-20T19:52:23Z")

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Description: Deploying pmm on EKS cluster via helm chart. for Ingress I’m using ALB with the following configuration with the AWS ingress controller alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internet-facing alb.ingress…

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## [PMM Backup & Restore: configure storage from Kubernetes / Percona Operator backup settings?](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-backup-restore-configure-storage-from-kubernetes-percona-operator-backup-settings/41070)

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**Author:** [@tra\_for](https://forums.percona.com/u/tra_for)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 16, 2026, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-backup-restore-configure-storage-from-kubernetes-percona-operator-backup-settings/41070 "2026-07-16T13:59:07Z")

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Hi Percona team, We are running Percona Server for MongoDB Operator with PMM enabled. PMM is successfully showing backup activity/status in dashboards, so it can observe backups created by the operator/PBM. The gap is …

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## [PMM 3.6 Remote MySQL service on Windows connects successfully but remains Down (mysql\_up = 0](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-3-6-remote-mysql-service-on-windows-connects-successfully-but-remains-down-mysql-up-0/41065)

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**Author:** [@smitha](https://forums.percona.com/u/smitha)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 16, 2026, 8:33am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-3-6-remote-mysql-service-on-windows-connects-successfully-but-remains-down-mysql-up-0/41065 "2026-07-16T08:33:30Z")

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Environment PMM Server 3.6 Oracle Linux 8 Podman MySQL 5.7.13 Enterprise on Windows Server Problem I am adding a Windows-hosted MySQL instance using: Inventory → Add Service → MySQL (Remote) The service is created …

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## [How to configure proxy for PMM Server?](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-pmm-server/40786)

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**Author:** [@bentse](https://forums.percona.com/u/bentse)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 15, 2026, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-configure-proxy-for-pmm-server/40786 "2026-07-15T16:15:01Z")

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We have a dockerized PMM3 installation in a partly locked infra: internet can be reached through proxy. There’s a note about this here: Network and firewall requirements - Percona Monitoring and Management configure a…

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## [PMM 3.8.1 and MongoDB 8.3](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-3-8-1-and-mongodb-8-3/41035)

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**Author:** [@PatrickV](https://forums.percona.com/u/PatrickV)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [July 8, 2026, 11:30am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-3-8-1-and-mongodb-8-3/41035 "2026-07-08T11:30:00Z")

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Hello, I’m using latest version of PMM and MongoDB. I add 3 mongodb to pmm with : pmm-admin add mongodb –username=pmm –password=mypass –host=myhost1 –port=myport –query-source=profiler –environment=acc –cluster=…

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## [Monitor RDS instance in different AWS accounts](https://forums.percona.com/t/monitor-rds-instance-in-different-aws-accounts/23031)

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**Author:** [@l8795200](https://forums.percona.com/u/l8795200)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 25, 2026, 7:10am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/monitor-rds-instance-in-different-aws-accounts/23031 "2026-06-25T07:10:52Z")

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Hi, I need to add monitor for AWS RDS instances in multiple different AWS accounts. Is there any way to do that by providing AWS role ARN instead of access/secret key ? It seems like rds\_exporter(GitHub - percona/rds\_ex…

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## [IAM Assume Role support on PMM](https://forums.percona.com/t/iam-assume-role-support-on-pmm/23737)

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**Author:** [@Muralipmm](https://forums.percona.com/u/Muralipmm)\
**Replies:** 13\
**Last updated:** [June 25, 2026, 7:09am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/iam-assume-role-support-on-pmm/23737 "2026-06-25T07:09:54Z")

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Description: In PMM we have an auto discover mechanism which will auto discover the RDS instance while using PMM add instance option from grafana UI. Steps to Reproduce: PMM Settings - \> Add Remote RDS Instance Version…

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## [PMM Client Upgrade Issues 2.x to 3.x](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-upgrade-issues-2-x-to-3-x/40933)

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**Author:** [@dclark](https://forums.percona.com/u/dclark)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 24, 2026, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-upgrade-issues-2-x-to-3-x/40933 "2026-06-24T10:12:46Z")

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Description: I have recently upgraded our kubernetes mongodb deployment to use PMM 3.8.1. I have 4 deployments in our NP environment that all talk back to the same PMM install. The PMM migration went well. When I went to…

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## [How do we fix "all available agents are outdated"](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-do-we-fix-all-available-agents-are-outdated/17087)

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**Author:** [@Venkatesh\_Naicker](https://forums.percona.com/u/Venkatesh_Naicker)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [June 16, 2026, 9:37am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-do-we-fix-all-available-agents-are-outdated/17087 "2026-06-16T09:37:46Z")

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We run PMM monitoring docker container on an EC2 to monitor RDS instances. This message, “all available agents are outdated” is displayed on MySQL Instance Summary/Service Summary. Do we need to update the agent on the c…

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## [PMM3 + mongodb. 2 questions - about mongodb\_mongolog\_agent and Query Analytics panel](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm3-mongodb-2-questions-about-mongodb-mongolog-agent-and-query-analytics-panel/40045)

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**Author:** [@G\_Sl](https://forums.percona.com/u/G_Sl)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [June 2, 2026, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm3-mongodb-2-questions-about-mongodb-mongolog-agent-and-query-analytics-panel/40045 "2026-06-02T08:36:28Z")

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Firts of all, thx four your beautifull app guys! It really helps ! So we use pmm server 3.3.0 with pmm-client-3.4.1 for gathering stats from mongodb nodes. And found some problems. 1. After restart mongod service , m…

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## [PMM2: Admin password change – any impact on already-registered agents?](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm2-admin-password-change-any-impact-on-already-registered-agents/40760)

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**Author:** [@Ly\_Kimmeng](https://forums.percona.com/u/Ly_Kimmeng)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [May 27, 2026, 3:49am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm2-admin-password-change-any-impact-on-already-registered-agents/40760 "2026-05-27T03:49:54Z")

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Dear PMM community, I’m using PMM 2 and would like to understand the impact of changing the admin password on the web portal. Our Current Setup: To register a monitoring agent, we: Create a dedicated PMM user on the…

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## [Mongo exporter not working after upgrading major version to 8 on sharded setup](https://forums.percona.com/t/mongo-exporter-not-working-after-upgrading-major-version-to-8-on-sharded-setup/40803)

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**Author:** [@rkamath](https://forums.percona.com/u/rkamath)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [May 18, 2026, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mongo-exporter-not-working-after-upgrading-major-version-to-8-on-sharded-setup/40803 "2026-05-18T10:56:02Z")

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Description: After upgrading from mongo 7 to mongo 8.0.20 on a sharded mongo setup, mongo metrics do not show up correctly and errors are seen in the agent logs. Exporters are setup on the replica set ports themselves. D…

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## [Pmm-client sidecar container is not getting created](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-sidecar-container-is-not-getting-created/40778)

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**Author:** [@Srinivas](https://forums.percona.com/u/Srinivas)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 18, 2026, 10:11am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-sidecar-container-is-not-getting-created/40778 "2026-05-18T10:11:19Z")

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Description: We have been creating pmm-server and pmm-client side car containers but unable to deploy pmm-client side car containers on primary Patroni and standby Patroni cluster on different OCP environments Steps to …

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## [Max PMM User Connections issue for MongoDB Replica Set](https://forums.percona.com/t/max-pmm-user-connections-issue-for-mongodb-replica-set/40791)

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**Author:** [@Naresh9999](https://forums.percona.com/u/Naresh9999)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [May 15, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/max-pmm-user-connections-issue-for-mongodb-replica-set/40791 "2026-05-15T07:16:25Z")

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Hi Team, We have configured a PMM user for monitoring the MongoDB replica set. After a few days, we noticed that the replica set ran out of maximum available connections. It appears that each node in the replica set is…

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## [Why does pg\_stat\_monitor trigger a PostgreSQL restart?](https://forums.percona.com/t/why-does-pg-stat-monitor-trigger-a-postgresql-restart/39942)

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**Author:** [@ANDiv1976](https://forums.percona.com/u/ANDiv1976)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [May 9, 2026, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/why-does-pg-stat-monitor-trigger-a-postgresql-restart/39942 "2026-05-09T21:28:00Z")

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PostgreSQL version 14.17, PMM 3.4.1., pg\_stat\_monitor 2.2 The server has 32GB RAM, 28% allocated for huge pages, shared\_buffers size is 25%. The PostgreSQL logs contain the following entries: received immediate shutdow…

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## [Pmm 3.7.0 system summary dislay error](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-3-7-0-system-summary-dislay-error/40702)

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**Author:** [@cmj\_cmj](https://forums.percona.com/u/cmj_cmj)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [May 8, 2026, 1:41am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-3-7-0-system-summary-dislay-error/40702 "2026-05-08T01:41:46Z")

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hi, my friends, i get this error on the pmm system summary, but it’s ok when i run the command manually on the client, i check the path setting is ok to search the perl command,so why this happen?

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## [Pmm-client v3.7.0 conflicting with itself](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-v3-7-0-conflicting-with-itself/40715)

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**Author:** [@asnyp](https://forums.percona.com/u/asnyp)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 27, 2026, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-client-v3-7-0-conflicting-with-itself/40715 "2026-04-27T10:50:57Z")

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Hi everyone, I have set up the pmm to monitor some database instances across different hosts but I keep getting alerts that the pmm-client package has a conflict defined with itself: # dnf install pmm-client Installed:…

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## [PMM 3.6.0: Drilldown Logs App not found](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-3-6-0-drilldown-logs-app-not-found/40707)

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**Author:** [@shigaev.s](https://forums.percona.com/u/shigaev.s)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 24, 2026, 2:43pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pmm-3-6-0-drilldown-logs-app-not-found/40707 "2026-04-24T14:43:58Z")

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Hello! After updating PMM from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0, Drilldown Logs doesn’t work. The UI changed significantly in 3.6. Previously, you could open Drilldown from the menu, but now you can’t. And when going from Explore to Dr…

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## [How to subscribe to PMM security/CVE email alerts?](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-subscribe-to-pmm-security-cve-email-alerts/40695)

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**Author:** [@Naresh9999](https://forums.percona.com/u/Naresh9999)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/how-to-subscribe-to-pmm-security-cve-email-alerts/40695 "2026-04-22T17:44:54Z")

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Hi Percona team, we’re running PMM in production and want to receive email notifications whenever a new CVE or security vulnerability is discovered or patched in PMM. Is there an official mailing list, security advisory …

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## [Monitoring multiple AWS accounts/OUs RDS](https://forums.percona.com/t/monitoring-multiple-aws-accounts-ous-rds/15226)

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**Author:** [@rmorris](https://forums.percona.com/u/rmorris)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [April 22, 2026, 7:08am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/monitoring-multiple-aws-accounts-ous-rds/15226 "2026-04-22T07:08:33Z")

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Hi Our environment is split over multiple AWS accounts. Is it possible to have one install of PMM to monitor all of the RDS in the multiple accounts?

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## [Upgrade from 3.6 to 3.7 fails](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-from-3-6-to-3-7-fails/40670)

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**Author:** [@ks27](https://forums.percona.com/u/ks27)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [April 18, 2026, 4:41pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/upgrade-from-3-6-to-3-7-fails/40670 "2026-04-18T16:41:19Z")

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Just pulled pmm 3.7, started as usual, but the container stays “unhealthy” and postgresgl14.log shows a lot of 2026-04-18 13:06:05.050 UTC \[1175\] FATAL: password authentication failed for user “pmm-managed” 2026-04-18…

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