In this chapter, we introduced management and administration tools. Using these tools, you can ease the management process.

First of all, you learned all the major methods of managing a MongoDB instance, including profiling, using database logs, utilizing built-in management tools, and using web-based utilities to manage an instance.

Then, you learned how to work with the profiler in a database to diagnose and find slow operations. Then, you worked with built-in reporting tools such as mongotop or mongostat. These tools are easy to use and handy to monitor instance statistics.

Also, you studied how to use and execute database commands to get reports from active databases or collections. These commands are dbStats, collStats, and so on. Then, you learned how to use and read database logs to find issues in the running instances and diagnose it.

Moreover, you studied some web-based tools that are useful to easily manage a MongoDB instance remotely. You can now define your alerts or create...