Comparison · vs Percona PMM
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01. Why teams move
What teams say in the first call.
- PMM is operationally heavy — Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ClickHouse, exporters, all yours to babysit.
- Out-of-the-box dashboards are general — most teams end up forking and customizing.
- Anomaly detection and forecasting are not first-class.
- Multi-tenant / multi-team is bolted on.
- Paid Percona support is excellent but doesn't change the operational lift.
02. Honest take
What Percona PMM is genuinely good at.
We’re not interested in trash-talk. Here’s where Percona PMM is the right call — useful even if you end up choosing Obsfly, because keeping Percona PMM for some workloads can make sense.
- + Truly open source — Apache 2.0, no rug pulls.
- + Postgres + MySQL depth — Percona's bread and butter, deeply optimized.
- + Active community, frequent releases, real customer feedback loop.
- + PMM Server runs offline; great for air-gapped environments without licensing.
03. Side by side
Obsfly vs Percona PMM, line by line.
04. The math
Pricing snapshot.
Public list pricing where known; “contact sales” where not. Real bills are usually within 20% of these figures.
05. Switching
How teams actually switch.
Keep PMM as backup
Some teams keep PMM for its raw exporters and use Obsfly for the operational UI. PMM agents + Obsfly agent don't conflict.
Same Postgres / MySQL surfaces
Both built on pg_stat_statements / Performance Schema. Migration of dashboards is mostly mechanical.
Talk to us about Sovereign
If your move was to PMM specifically for air-gap, our Sovereign tier exists exactly for that — single Helm chart, license-controlled, no phone-home in air-gapped mode.
06. FAQ
Common questions.
We're committed to open source. Is Obsfly right for us?+
Honest answer: maybe not. Our agent + receiver are source-available (BSL → Apache 2.0 after 4 years), but the control plane is commercial. If 'truly Apache' is a hard requirement, PMM stays the right call.
Will Obsfly scrape my existing PMM exporters?+
We scrape the underlying DBs directly, not via PMM exporters. You can run both — they don't conflict.
PMM Server vs Obsfly Sovereign — what's different?+
Both run fully self-hosted. Sovereign ships as one Helm chart with managed upgrades and an annual license. PMM is community-supported with optional Percona support contracts. Choose based on whether you want license-paid or community-paid support.
Where it shows up
Obsfly for the databases you run.
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Deep dives
Reading you might want before the call.
Postgres
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See it on your stack.
20-min comparison demo. Bring real queries from your Percona PMM setup; we'll reproduce them in Obsfly live.