Your datastore, MongoDB, is likely critical to your project; if you're new to MongoDB or Ops and have to keep things running in production this is the talk for you. We will cover Ops with MongoDB from the ground up; which parts of servers you should monitor and why, and show how to take and test backups. Also, we'll run through different tools you can use for installing, running, and monitoring MongoDB. After this you should be comfortable with the basics of running MongoDB in production, as well as have a head start on what you should do next.

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Ops Skills and Tools for
Beginners

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English guy
Mongo DB Master
Ex Ops consultant
Ruby / PHP developer
YC S12 Alum
Using mongo in Prod since 1.6/1.8

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Rainforest QA
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Insanely simple testing
checkout: www.rainforestqa.com

4. What is Ops?

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Setting up servers / services

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Supporting Engineers

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Keeping stuff running

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Avoiding disasters

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Fixing breakage

10. Lets Learn the basics

11. Installation

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Replicated

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Sharded

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Best practices
Ubuntu is simplest
Install from Mongo’s repo
Chose the right replica set size: 3 nodes
Never use 32 bits

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Alternatives
MongoHQ
MonogLab
ObjectRocket
MMS + AWS (via automation)

16. Monitoring Mongo

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Server components

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Storage
magnetic, ssd
metric: disk io

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Memory / RAM
fastest general store
metrics; free, swap usage

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Network
allows communication
use 1gbit or higher (avoid 100mbit)
metrics; latency, throughput

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CPU
more is better
mostly used
metrics; % usage

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Monitoring & Diagnostics

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Top things to monitor
Failover events
Repl Lag
Connections
Lock %
Disk usage

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Hosted is Simplest

25. MMS
Hosted, free for monitoring
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Also can do
Backups
Automation

26. Scout
Monitors mongo, servers and many
others (Plugins!)
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non-free

27. Server Density
Monitors mongo, servers and many
others (Plugins!)
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non-free

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Opensource options
Ganglia
Munin
Nagios
Zabbix

29. Linux tools to learn
mongostat / mongotop
top
iostat
vmstat
netstat

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Mongo shell
rs.conf()
rs.status()
db.serverStatus()
db.stats()
db.currentOp()

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Backups

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Backup options
mongodump
from the file system
LVM / EBS
MMS

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TEST YOUR BACKUPS

34. Common pitfals

35. Missing indexes!
Running out of disk space
Untested backups
Sharding too late / wrong key
un-replicated / even set size

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Conclusion
do backups
monitor
read the docs

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Questions?
@rainforestqa
@rhs