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MongoDB Administrator???s Guide

By : Cyrus Dasadia
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MongoDB Administrator???s Guide

By: Cyrus Dasadia

Overview of this book

MongoDB is a high-performance and feature-rich NoSQL database that forms the backbone of the systems that power many different organizations. Packed with many features that have become essential for many different types of software professional and incredibly easy to use, this cookbook contains more than 100 recipes to address the everyday challenges of working with MongoDB. Starting with database configuration, you will understand the indexing aspects of MongoDB. The book also includes practical recipes on how you can optimize your database query performance, perform diagnostics, and query debugging. You will also learn how to implement the core administration tasks required for high-availability and scalability, achieved through replica sets and sharding, respectively. You will also implement server security concepts such as authentication, user management, role-based access models, and TLS configuration. You will also learn how to back up and recover your database efficiently and monitor server performance. By the end of this book, you will have all the information you need—along with tips, tricks, and best practices—to implement a high-performance MongoDB solution.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Collecting MongoDB metrics using Diamond and Graphite


In this recipe, we will look at how to fetch metrics using Diamond metrics collector and send it to Graphite, a tool to store and view time series data.

Getting ready

You need a single-node MongoDB instance.

How to do it...

  1. Assuming you are using a Ubuntu/Debian system, install Diamond:
sudo apt install python-pip

sudo pip install diamond
  1. Create required directories and the Diamond configuration file:
mkdir /etc/diamond

mkdir /var/log/diamond
  1. Download the Graphite docker image, and start the container:
 docker run -d\
 --name graphite\
 --restart=always\
 -p 80:80\
 -p 2003-2004:2003-2004\
 -p 2023-2024:2023-2024\
 -p 8125:8125/udp\
 -p 8126:8126\
 graphiteapp/graphite-statsd
  1. Start the Diamond collector:
/usr/local/bin/diamond -f
  1. Check the Diamond log file (/var/log/diamond/diamond.log) and ensure metrics are being collected.
  2. Check the Graphite web UI. You should see your metrics as shown in the following sample:

How it works...

Diamond is an open...