In this short blog post, we will discuss a helpful feature for tracing MongoDB queries: Cursor Comments. Cursor Comments Much like other database systems, MongoDB supports the ability for application developers to set comment strings on their database queries using the Cursor Comment feature. This feature is very useful for both DBAs and developers for quickly […]
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In this blog post, I will cover the Percona-Lab/mongodb_consistent_backup tool and the improvements in the 1.0.1 release of the tool. Percona-Lab/mongodb_consistent_backup mongodb_consistent_backup is a tool for performing cluster consistent backups on MongoDB clusters or single-replica sets. This tool is open source Python code, developed by Percona and published under our Percona-Lab GitHub repository. Percona-Lab is […]
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This blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, we will cover how to add custom MongoDB graphs to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and (for the daring Golang developers out there) how to add custom metrics to PMM’s percona/mongodb_exporter metric exporter. To get […]
Read MoreThis blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog post, I hope to cover some areas to watch with Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) when running MMAPv1. The graph examples from this article are from the MMAPv1 dashboard that will be released for the first […]
Read MoreThis blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In this blog, we’ll go over some useful metrics WiredTiger outputs and how we visualize them in Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM). WiredTiger is the default storage engine for MongoDB since version 3.2. The addition of this full-featured, comprehensive […]
Read MoreThis blog post is another in the series on the Percona Server for MongoDB 3.4 bundle release. In mid-2016, Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) added support for RocksDB with MongoDB, also known as “MongoRocks.” In this blog, we will go over the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) 1.1.0 version of the MongoDB RocksDB dashboard, how PMM is […]
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In this blog post, we will discuss some of the Sharding improvements in the recent MongoDB 3.4 GA release. Sharding? Let’s go over what MongoDB Sharding “is” at a simplified, high level. The concept of “sharding” exists to allow MongoDB to scale to very large data sets that may exceed the available resources of a single node or […]
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This blog discusses MongoDB 3.4 GA facet aggregation features and the SERVER-27395 mongod crash bug. As you may have heard, in late November MongoDB 3.4 GA was released. One feature that stuck out for me, a Lucene enthusiast, was the addition of powerful grouping and faceted search features in MongoDB 3.4. Faceted Search For those […]
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In a previous blog post: “Tuning Linux for MongoDB,” I covered several tunings for an efficient MongoDB deployment on Linux in Production. This post expands on that one. While I felt the tuning Linux for MongoDB was a very useful blog post that results in a great baseline tuning, something bugged me about how much […]
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This blog post discusses how you can protect your e-commerce database from a high traffic disaster. Databases power today’s e-commerce. Whether it’s listing items on your site, contacting your distributor for inventory, tracking shipments, payments, or customer data, your database must be up, running, tuned and available for your business to be successful. There is […]
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