Monitoring Your MongoDB Database and Server with the New Wizards in Nagios XI 2014

Every once in a while, a new database pushes to the front of the news. These databases generally bring a renewed schema and some neat tricks and features others may not offer. Due to the increasing popularity of MongoDB NoSQL databases, we have designed two new wizards for use with Nagios XI 2014: the MongoDB Database Wizard, and MongoDB Server Wizard.

MongoDB Database Wizard - Nagios XI 2014

 MongoDB Database Wizard will allow you to monitor key metrics such as:

  • Number of Collections in the database
  • Number of Objects in the database
  • The size of the MongoDB Database

Below is an example of the MongoDB Database service checks in action:

MongoDB Database Service Check Results in Nagios XI 2014

MongoDB Server Wizard - Nagios XI 2014  MongoDB Server Wizard will allow you to monitor key metrics such as:

  • Time to connect to and authenticate with the Database server
  • Percent of Free Connections
  • Server Memory Usage
  • Percentage of time the MongoDB server is locked
  • Average time it takes to preform a flush
  • Time since the last flush
  • Ratio of index hits to misses
  • Number of Databases
  • Number of Collections
  • Queries per second

MongoDB Wizard Metrics in Nagios XI 2014

Below is an example of the MongoDB Server service checks in action:

MongoDB Server Service Check Results in Nagios XI 2014

As you can see, there are quite a handful of useful metrics to monitor, which will help keep you – and your admins – both assured of the MongoDB Database’s health and usage, as well as notified of key issues that may arise. View a full how-to document on using the MongoDB Database Wizard at Monitoring MongoDB Database With Nagios XI and the MongoDB Server Wizard at Monitoring MongoDB Server With Nagios XI.

These two wizards come prepackaged with Nagios XI 2014. If you would like to try out either of the MongoDB wizards and see the latest version of Nagios XI 2014  in action, you can give it a test run by downloading Nagios XI 2014 here with a fully functional 60 day free trial.

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2 Responses to “Monitoring Your MongoDB Database and Server with the New Wizards in Nagios XI 2014”


  • Nice new addition to 2014!

  • Hi,
    I recently upgraded NagiosXI 2014 and tried to configure mongodb server monitoring through wizard, but am keep getting

    “Error: It looks like you are missing pymongo on your Nagios XI server.

    To use this wizard you must install pymongo on your server. If you are using CentOS or RHEL you can run “yum install pymongo”.

    But I have pymongo installed with my python3.4 and can import pymongo and can connect local mongodb from python shell. How could I fix this pymong issue??

    Thanks,

    Amal

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