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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

Introduction


Monitoring is perhaps one of the most crucial components of any production system. Keeping a close watch on the important metrics and signals emitted by a system can help gain wonderful insights into the system's usage and behavior. It can help you debug issues, identify and optimize bottlenecks, and avoid catastrophic failures. Thankfully, MongoDB comes bundled with useful tools and commands that help us monitor its health and take appropriate measures to ensure its optimal utilization. In this chapter, we will look at various tools such as mongostat and mongotop, work with database commands that give extremely useful metrics, monitor operating system subsystems, and monitor backups.

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