# Awards & Recognition

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## [About the Awards & Recognition category](https://forums.percona.com/t/about-the-awards-recognition-category/53)

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**Author:** [@system](https://forums.percona.com/u/system)\
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Special Forum-related accomplishments

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## [Percona Community Report — November 2025](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-community-report-november-2025/39884)

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**Author:** [@daniil.bazhenov](https://forums.percona.com/u/daniil.bazhenov)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 12, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-community-report-november-2025/39884 "2025-12-12T15:42:05Z")

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Welcome to the Percona Community Report for November 2025! This monthly update highlights the energy and collaboration across GitHub, Jira, and the Percona Forum. Whether you’re writing code, reporting issues, or sharin…

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## [Percona Community Report — October 2025](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-community-report-october-2025/39678)

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**Author:** [@daniil.bazhenov](https://forums.percona.com/u/daniil.bazhenov)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 3, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-community-report-october-2025/39678 "2025-11-03T14:53:24Z")

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Welcome to the Percona Community Report for October 2025! This monthly summary highlights contributions, activity, and collaboration across GitHub, Jira, and the Percona Forum. Whether you’re submitting code, reporting …

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## [Percona Community Report — September 2025](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-community-report-september-2025/39518)

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**Author:** [@daniil.bazhenov](https://forums.percona.com/u/daniil.bazhenov)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 15, 2025, 11:23am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-community-report-september-2025/39518 "2025-10-15T11:23:38Z")

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Hello, the community team has decided to introduce monthly reports on the community’s open-source activity in the development of Percona and Percona products. Welcome to the first report for September 2025. We have col…

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## [Difference between data space utilisation between the nodes of the PXC cluster](https://forums.percona.com/t/difference-between-data-space-utilisation-between-the-nodes-of-the-pxc-cluster/34958)

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**Author:** [@anjaneyarajus](https://forums.percona.com/u/anjaneyarajus)\
**Replies:** 8\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/difference-between-data-space-utilisation-between-the-nodes-of-the-pxc-cluster/34958 "2024-11-18T20:48:32Z")

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we are using PXC with compression tables. The cluster consists of three nodes, and writes always take place on node one. We discovered a difference in data space utilisation between node 1 and the other two nodes in th…

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## [Data lost after Kubernetes pod drop](https://forums.percona.com/t/data-lost-after-kubernetes-pod-drop/34962)

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**Author:** [@Skipper\_Technicolor](https://forums.percona.com/u/Skipper_Technicolor)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [November 12, 2024, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/data-lost-after-kubernetes-pod-drop/34962 "2024-11-12T13:36:08Z")

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I have an implementation of PMM running in a Kubernetes cluster. We are applying version 2.43.1, and we monitor only a MariaDB on Amazon RDS with QAN. We noticed that when the pod drops for any reason, the server loose…

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## [Mongodb cipher lock down kubernetes helm chart](https://forums.percona.com/t/mongodb-cipher-lock-down-kubernetes-helm-chart/34823)

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**Author:** [@Henry\_Smearman](https://forums.percona.com/u/Henry_Smearman)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 7, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/mongodb-cipher-lock-down-kubernetes-helm-chart/34823 "2024-11-07T16:46:14Z")

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Hello, Im installing mongodb using percona-helm-charts-psmdb-operator-1.17.1/charts/psmdb-db/values.yaml file and want to be able to lock down my instance to only allow certain ciphers and block TLS1 and TLS1\_1. I have…

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## [FAiled to intialized PXC in kubernetes](https://forums.percona.com/t/failed-to-intialized-pxc-in-kubernetes/34838)

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**Author:** [@Jyoti\_Rajai](https://forums.percona.com/u/Jyoti_Rajai)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [November 7, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/failed-to-intialized-pxc-in-kubernetes/34838 "2024-11-07T12:25:51Z")

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root@cladev-dd03-mg:~# kubectl describe pod cluster1-pxc-1 -n perconamysql Name: cluster1-pxc-1 Namespace: perconamysql Priority: 0 Service Account: default Node: \<none\> Labels: …

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## [Using DHCP for server](https://forums.percona.com/t/using-dhcp-for-server/34818)

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**Author:** [@Alexk1](https://forums.percona.com/u/Alexk1)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [November 6, 2024, 8:36pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/using-dhcp-for-server/34818 "2024-11-06T20:36:16Z")

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My infrastructure group really wants to use DHCP (no reservation) for some new DB servers we are nearly ready to deploy (MySQL 8) and we use a single replication server. Looking around I do not see that DHCP is recommend…

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## [Percona vs mariadb on vps with cyberpanel, openlitespeed wordpress](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-vs-mariadb-on-vps-with-cyberpanel-openlitespeed-wordpress/34720)

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**Author:** [@asad\_rasheed](https://forums.percona.com/u/asad_rasheed)\
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**Last updated:** [November 2, 2024, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/percona-vs-mariadb-on-vps-with-cyberpanel-openlitespeed-wordpress/34720 "2024-11-02T15:49:34Z")

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can anyone tell me percona vs mariadb on vps with cyberpanel, openlitespeed wordpress for in vps for wordpress percona performance and scalibity vs mariadb

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## [QAN MariaDB Example query is trimmed](https://forums.percona.com/t/qan-mariadb-example-query-is-trimmed/34628)

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**Author:** [@Naresh9999](https://forums.percona.com/u/Naresh9999)\
**Replies:** 7\
**Last updated:** [October 31, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/qan-mariadb-example-query-is-trimmed/34628 "2024-10-31T17:04:51Z")

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Hi Team, We are unable to obtain the whole query because it has been truncated in the QAN DB. Despite setting “max\_query\_length=-1” in the pmm-agent configuration, the query is being cut.

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## [PostgreSQL no space left on device](https://forums.percona.com/t/postgresql-no-space-left-on-device/34661)

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**Author:** [@jruffer](https://forums.percona.com/u/jruffer)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 30, 2024, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/postgresql-no-space-left-on-device/34661 "2024-10-30T10:08:11Z")

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System stuck in a loop trying to recover but can’t because no space. There are tables I could drop to give the space but I can connect to do that.

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## [Auth issues while adding pmm as a datasource in Grafana](https://forums.percona.com/t/auth-issues-while-adding-pmm-as-a-datasource-in-grafana/34639)

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**Author:** [@skp15](https://forums.percona.com/u/skp15)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [October 28, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/auth-issues-while-adding-pmm-as-a-datasource-in-grafana/34639 "2024-10-28T20:48:03Z")

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Hello, I have a pmm-server hosted on an AWS EKS cluster and exposed it on localhost, I am able to access the PMM UI as well as the /prometheus endpoint that has Single-node VictoriaMetrics. When I am adding pmm’s servi…

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## [Stuck Kubernetes Resource](https://forums.percona.com/t/stuck-kubernetes-resource/34452)

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**Author:** [@sloan58](https://forums.percona.com/u/sloan58)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [October 21, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/stuck-kubernetes-resource/34452 "2024-10-21T21:03:48Z")

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I was testing the Percona MongoDB operator and have some stuck resources. I created a namespace percona-mongodb which I can’t delete now due to the remaining resources. If I run kubectl api-resources --verbs=list --na…

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## [Pt-archiver - POINT data type and Cast / Convert Column](https://forums.percona.com/t/pt-archiver-point-data-type-and-cast-convert-column/34411)

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**Author:** [@Mulen](https://forums.percona.com/u/Mulen)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [October 17, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/pt-archiver-point-data-type-and-cast-convert-column/34411 "2024-10-17T13:47:39Z")

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Hello. We have a table that has a POINT data type column. When we use pt-archiver to export to a csv file, the data for the POINT type column are a bunch of random gibberish text. Also we can not use this file later t…

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## [Forum Community Contributors - Thank You! Continue Helping Others And Grab Your Gifts](https://forums.percona.com/t/forum-community-contributors-thank-you-continue-helping-others-and-grab-your-gifts/14187)

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**Author:** [@daniil.bazhenov](https://forums.percona.com/u/daniil.bazhenov)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [March 4, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/forum-community-contributors-thank-you-continue-helping-others-and-grab-your-gifts/14187 "2022-03-04T13:37:44Z")

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Dear Community Members! We would like to thank all active forum contributors and provide you with small gifts from Percona. The rule to get swag is very simple: to be recognized, just help others on the forum and answer…

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## [3 Percona Software Products Take the SourceForge Leader Award!](https://forums.percona.com/t/3-percona-software-products-take-the-sourceforge-leader-award/9628)

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**Author:** [@Aleksandra\_Abramova](https://forums.percona.com/u/Aleksandra_Abramova)\
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**Last updated:** [March 11, 2021, 9:02am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/3-percona-software-products-take-the-sourceforge-leader-award/9628 "2021-03-11T09:02:45Z")

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Percona Monitoring and Management, Percona Server for MongoDB, and Percona Backup for MongoDB have just been recognized as a Winter 2021 category leader by SourceForge! See details in our blog. We are so grateful to all…

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## [Q4 Top Percona Experts on Forum](https://forums.percona.com/t/q4-top-percona-experts-on-forum/9346)

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**Author:** [@Tom\_Basil](https://forums.percona.com/u/Tom_Basil)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [February 19, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/q4-top-percona-experts-on-forum/9346 "2021-02-19T19:21:04Z")

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In Q4 these Percona staff resolved at least five Forum questions. Click names to read each one’s answers. Percona experts are quite busy. We appreciate their time, be sure to thank them! Agustin Gallego @Agustin\_G …

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## [Q3 Top Percona Experts on Forum](https://forums.percona.com/t/q3-top-percona-experts-on-forum/8254)

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**Author:** [@Tom\_Basil](https://forums.percona.com/u/Tom_Basil)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 9, 2020, 2:29pm UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/q3-top-percona-experts-on-forum/8254 "2020-11-09T14:29:46Z")

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In Q3 these Percona staff experts resolved at least 5 questions posted by Percona users in this Forum: @matthewb Senior Mentor, 47 questions resolved @steve.hoffman Senior Advisor , 29 @adivinho Senior Advis…
