MMS (MongoDB Monitoring Service) is a service for monitoring MongoDB infrastructure. MMS was created by 10gen and is provided for all users of MongoDB. Designed with security and ease of use, MMS collects statistics on all key server and hardware indicators and then presents the data in a powerful web console. The data is a great asset when optimizing applications during development and potentially invaluable when diagnosing production issues. For sharded clusters consisting of dozens of nodes, MMS is particularly useful because it provides a holistic overview of MongoDB deployments so that administrators can asses quickly the health clusters.
You enable MMS by installing a lightweight monitoring agent in the server environment. A single agent can monitor an entire deployment of mongod and mongos instances. The agent pulls data about your environment that you provide from MMS and automatically discovers MongoDB nodes in your deployment using this “seed” information. The agent then regularly pushes data to MMS, which MMS uses to provide reports on metrics that include memory usage, ops per second, and open connections. If enabled, MMS can also track system performance including CPU load and I/O activity. The web interface then displays the status of each MongoDB instance, as well as historical graphs for all collected data. You can create custom dashboards, perform side-by-side data comparisons, and re-plot charts on different timescales to aid analysis.
The agent transmits all metrics to the MMS servers over SSL (128-bit encryption), and agent traffic is exclusively outbound. The monitoring agent is a Python script, and you are free to examine its source code. MMS pushes no data to the agent. The agent is subject to firewalls and contains support for MongoDB authentication. Monitored services are only discovered when the agent fetches information provided to MMS or from other members of the cluster. The agent only records server metrics: the collection of hardware and application data must be explicitly enabled. The web interface is secured over SSL, and extensive data access controls and audits are in place to ensure that the safety of your data.
MMS is compatible with all varieties of MongoDB deployments, regardless of the infrastructure or architecture of the MongoDB deployment. The agent and server installation is quick and straightforward, meaningful results are available through the web interface in minutes. See the Getting Started with MMS document and mms.10gen.com for more information.
