User goals and features

The BMC PATROL for MongoDB operates with PATROL Agent and BMC ProactiveNet Central Monitoring Administration console to monitor MongoDB database. BMC PATROL for MongoDB contains knowledge in the form of monitor types and attributes, this knowledge is used to monitor, analyze, and manage MongoDB databases.

BMC PATROL for MongoDB helps you to monitor and manage the following key features:

• • Routing service for MongoDB Shards
  • Sharded cluster
  • Database health
  • Replica Set and Replica Set Member

Routing service for MongoDB Shards

You can monitor MongoS, MongoDB shard routing service, by configuring the MongoDB monitor type to collect data for the inserts, queries, updates, virtual memory size, open connections etc. For more information about configuring the monitor type, see Configuring-MongoDB-monitor-type. For information about MongoS attributes, MongoDB-MongoS.

Sharded cluster

BMC PATROL for MongoDB helps you to monitor a sharded deployment of MongoDB. You can set thresholds of the attributes of the MongoDB Cluster monitor type to monitor the MongoDB sharded clusters. For more information about MongoDB Cluster attributes, see MongoDB-Cluster.

Database health

You can monitor the index size, database storage, data size, and name space size. The MongoDB Database Name attributes help you monitor the database health, for more information about these attributes, see Mongo-Database-Name.

Replica Set and Replica Set Member

You can monitor the replica set and replica set members of MongoDB database. For more information about monitoring the Replica Set and Replica Set Member, see the MongoDB-Replica-Set, MongoDB-Replica-Set-Memeber, and MongoDB-Replica-Set-Statistics.