pmmadmin

pmmadmin is a command-line interface included with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). It is part of the PMM client software and provides the primary means to configure a PMM deployment, register hosts with a PMM server, and manage the monitoring of databases and system services. Using pmmadmin, administrators can install and configure the relevant monitoring agents, enroll hosts with PMM Server, and register specific services to be monitored.

Key capabilities include adding and removing monitored services (for example MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and web servers), listing the currently registered services and their status, and reconfiguring connection details and TLS settings. It also supports unregistering hosts or services and updating agent configuration as environments change.

Typical workflow: install the PMM client package on a host, configure the PMM server URL with pmm-admin config, then use pmm-admin to add services to be monitored. Once added, the PMM Server collects metrics and exposes dashboards and reports for analysis. pmmadmin is commonly used in Linux environments, but PMM supports multiple platforms.

See also: Percona Monitoring and Management, PMM Server, PMM Client. The tool is designed to simplify deployment and ongoing maintenance of monitoring in database-heavy infrastructures.