Ops Skills and Tools for Beginners [#MongoDB World 2014]
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The document provides an overview of operational skills and tools for beginners in managing MongoDB, including setup, monitoring, and backup strategies. Key recommendations include using Ubuntu for installation, ensuring proper server configurations, and utilizing various monitoring tools. It emphasizes the importance of backups and monitoring to avoid common pitfalls in database management.
Ops Skills and Tools for Beginners [#MongoDB World 2014]
- 1. rainforest @rainforestqa Ops Skills and Tools for Beginners
- 2. Russell Smith ! English guy Mongo DB Master Ex Ops consultant Ruby / PHP developer YC S12 Alum Using mongo in Prod since 1.6/1.8
- 3. @rainforestqarainforest Rainforest QA ! Insanely simple testing checkout: www.rainforestqa.com
- 4. What is Ops?
- 5. @rainforestqarainforest Setting up servers / services
- 10. Lets Learn the basics
- 11. Installation
- 14. @rainforestqarainforest Best practices Ubuntu is simplest Install from Mongo’s repo Chose the right replica set size: 3 nodes Never use 32 bits
- 15. @rainforestqarainforest Alternatives MongoHQ MonogLab ObjectRocket MMS + AWS (via automation)
- 16. Monitoring Mongo
- 19. @rainforestqarainforest Memory / RAM fastest general store metrics; free, swap usage
- 20. @rainforestqarainforest Network allows communication use 1gbit or higher (avoid 100mbit) metrics; latency, throughput
- 21. @rainforestqarainforest CPU more is better mostly used metrics; % usage
- 23. @rainforestqarainforest Top things to monitor Failover events Repl Lag Connections Lock % Disk usage
- 25. MMS Hosted, free for monitoring ! Also can do Backups Automation
- 26. Scout Monitors mongo, servers and many others (Plugins!) ! non-free
- 27. Server Density Monitors mongo, servers and many others (Plugins!) ! non-free
- 29. Linux tools to learn mongostat / mongotop top iostat vmstat netstat
- 32. @rainforestqarainforest Backup options mongodump from the file system LVM / EBS MMS
- 34. Common pitfals
- 35. Missing indexes! Running out of disk space Untested backups Sharding too late / wrong key un-replicated / even set size