MongoDB plugin

Warning: The MongoDB plugin is deprecated. For more information, refer to Stackdriver deprecations. For continued support for MongoDB, migrate to the solution provided by Blue Medora.

MongoDB is an open source, NoSQL, document-oriented database system. The MongoDB plugin allows you to monitor your databases running on your instances.

Discovery

Even if you don't configure the MongoDB plugin, Stackdriver Monitoring discovers MongoDB services running in your Google Cloud Platform project by:

• Searching instance names for mongodb
• Checking for ports opened to 27017, 27018, or 27019 via firewall rules

These discovered services appear on the MongoDB Services page in the Resources menu. After you install the monitoring agent and the MongoDB plugin on your instances, Monitoring populates the MongoDB Services page with inventory and metrics.

Configuring Monitoring to monitor MongoDB

After you install the monitoring agent, configure the MongoDB plugin on your instances.

Prerequisites

For a MongoDB database with access roles (configured to run in "auth" mode), you must configure a user with the clusterMonitor role on the admin database. This user and password are referred to as STATS_USER and STATS_PASS in the mongodb.conf file.

In "noauth" mode, any program that can connect to the MongoDB server can run arbitrary queries and commands on it. Therefore, "noauth" mode is generally considered less safe. When your database runs in "noauth" mode, you don't need any credentials in the plugin configuration file.

Enabling the MongoDB monitoring plugin

If you want to monitor a cluster of multiple MongoDB servers (one primary and one or more secondaries), the Monitoring agent should be installed on each node in the cluster.

Note: The PreferSecondaryQuery flag used by older plugin versions is now deprecated and ignored.

1. On your VM instance, download mongodb.conf from the GitHub configuration repository and place it in /opt/stackdriver/collectd/etc/collectd.d/:

   cd /opt/stackdriver/collectd/etc/collectd.d/ && sudo curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Stackdriver/stackdriver-agent-service-configs/master/etc/collectd.d/mongodb.conf
   

2. To run MongoDB in "auth" mode, as root, edit the configuration file and replace STATS_USER and STATS_PASS with the correct username and password.

3. Make other configuration changes, such as Port or Host, as needed.

4. When finished, restart the monitoring agent:

   sudo service stackdriver-agent restart
   

For more information on the collectd mongodb plugin, see Plugin:MongoDB.

What is monitored

The full list of metrics the MongoDB plugin monitors is at Agent metrics: mongodb.