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Glossary

Annotation

A way of showing a mark on dashboards signifying an important point in time.

Dimension

In the Query Analytics dashboard, to help focus on the possible source of performance issues, you can group queries by dimension, one of: Query, Service Name, Database, Schema, User Name, Client Host

EBS

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store.

Fingerprint

A normalized statement digest—a query string with values removed that acts as a template or typical example for a query.

IAM

Identity and Access Management (for Amazon AWS).

MM

Metrics Monitor.

NUMA

Non-Uniform Memory Access.

PEM

Privacy Enhanced Mail.

QPS

Queries Per Second. A measure of the rate of queries being monitored.

Query Analytics

Component of PMM Server that enables you to analyze MySQL query performance over periods of time.

Advisors

Automated checks that you can run against connected databases to identify any potential security threats, configuration problems, performance concerns, policy non-compliance issues etc.

Technical Preview

Releases intended for public preview and feedback, but with no support or service level agreement (SLA). Should not be used on production or business-critical systems. May contain breaking changes to UI, API, CLI. (Read more.)

VG

Volume Group.

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