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On-premises Deployment and Monitoring of MongoDB Sharded Clusters
Last year, we did a survey asking our users about any other databases they were using alongside MySQL. A clear majority were interested in using other databases alongside MySQL, these included (in...
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Install ClusterControl on Top of Existing MongoDB Sharded Cluster
**Attention: The instructions in this blog post are outdated. Please refer to ClusterControl Quick Start Guide for updated instructions. In this post, we are going to show you on how to install and...
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Turning MongoDB Replica Set to a Sharded Cluster
Replica Sets or Sharded Clusters?** Diagrams updated on May 22nd. Thanks to Leif Walsh from Tokutek for his feedback.Replica Sets are a great way to replicate MongoDB data across multiple servers and...
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On-premises Cluster Management and Monitoring of MongoDB Replica Set
Replica Sets in MongoDB are very useful. They provide multiple copies of data, automated failover and read scalability. A Replica Set can consist of up to 12 nodes, with only one primary node (or...
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NoSQL Battle of the East Coast - Benchmarking MongoDB vs TokuMX Cluster
In this post we will compare performance of MongoDB and TokuMX, a MongoDB performance engine from Tokutek. We will conduct three simple experiments that (almost) anyone without any programming skills...
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OpenStack Metering: How to Install Ceilometer with MongoDB
According to Wikipedia, a ceilometer is a device that uses a laser or other light source to determine the height of a cloud base. And it is also the name of the framework for monitoring and metering...
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Installing ClusterControl on Existing MongoDB Replica Set using bootstrap script
So, your development project has been humming along nicely on MongoDB, until it was time to deploy the application. That's when you called your operations person and things got uncomfortable. NoSQL,...
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Big Data Integration & ETL - Moving Live Clickstream Data from MongoDB to...
MongoDB is great at storing clickstream data, but using it to analyze millions of documents can be challenging. Hadoop provides a way of processing and analyzing data at large scale. Since it is a...
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How to Configure Drupal with MongoDB Replica Set
Drupal’s modular setup allows for different datastores to be integrated as modules, this allows sites to store different types of Drupal data into MongoDB. You can choose to store Drupal’s cache,...
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High Availability Log Processing with Graylog, MongoDB and ElasticSearch
Graylog is an open-source log management tool. Similar to Splunk and LogStash, Graylog helps centralize and aggregate all your log files for full visibility. It also provides a query language to search...
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Watch the replay: Become a MongoDB DBA (if you’re really a MySQL user)
Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s webinar on ‘Become a MongoDB DBA’! Our colleague Art van Scheppingen presented from the perspective of a MySQL DBA who might be called to manage a...
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Webinar: Become a MongoDB DBA - What to Monitor (if you’re really a MySQLer)
To operate MongoDB efficiently, you need to have insight into database performance. And with that in mind, we’ll dive into monitoring in this second webinar in the ‘Become a MongoDB DBA’ series.MongoDB...
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Become a MongoDB DBA: Monitoring and Trending (part 1)
After covering the deployment and configuration of MongoDB in our previous blogposts, we now move on to monitoring basics. Just like MySQL, MongoDB has a broad variety of metrics you can collect and...
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Sign up for our webinar on monitoring MongoDB (if you’re really a MySQL DBA)
In this new webinar on July 12th, we’ll discuss the most important metrics MongoDB offers and will describe them in ordinary plain MySQL DBA language. We’ll have a look at the open source tools...
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Become a MongoDB DBA: Monitoring and Trending (part 2)
In the previous post, we introduced the various functions and commands in MongoDB to retrieve your metrics. We also showcased a few out-of-the-box solutions (statsd, OpenTSDB, Prometheus, Cacti) that...
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How to monitor MongoDB (if you’re really a MySQL DBA) - Webinar Replay & Slides
Thanks to everyone who joined us for this week’s webinar on how to monitor MongoDB (for the MySQL DBA).Art van Scheppingen, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines, discussed the most important metrics...
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Become a MongoDB DBA: provisioning and deployment
If you are a MySQL DBA you may ask yourself why you would install MongoDB? That is actually a very good question as MongoDB and MySQL have been in a flame-war a couple of years ago. But there are many...
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Become a MongoDB DBA: The Basics of Configuration
After covering the deployment of MongoDB in our previous blogpost, we now move on to configuration basics. MongoDB is configured through both the config file (/etc/mongod.conf) and runtime. In the...
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ClusterControl Developer Studio: MongoDB Replication Lag Advisor
In the previous blog posts, we gave a brief introduction to the ClusterControl Developer Studio and the ClusterControl Domain Specific Language. We covered some useful examples, e.g., how to extract...
View ArticleBecome a MongoDB DBA: Backing up your data
In previous posts of our MongoDB DBA series, we have covered Deployment, Configuration, Monitoring (part 1) and Monitoring (part 2). The next step is ensuring your data gets backed up safely.Backups in...
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