How to Monitor Your MongoDB Server Status

Posted on: 19/07/2018 (last updated: 04/08/2021) by Graham Thomson

In this post, we’ll show you how to monitor the status of your MongoDB servers using Studio 3T’s Server Status Charts feature. Try it today.

Introduction

Studio 3T’s Server Status Charts show real-time updates of what’s happening on a MongoDB instance.

This makes it easier to monitor particular things of interest on production, development, test, or local instances.

Open Server Status Charts

You can open a Server Status Charts tab by right-clicking on a connection (or database, or collection) and selecting Server Status Charts from the Server Info menu:

Choose your charts

You can customize which charts are shown by clicking on Select Charts in the upper right hand side corner of the Server Status Charts tab:

For example, if we wanted to focus on Operation Counts, Current Connections, and Current Network Traffic, we would select only those, and the charts will be laid out intelligently to accommodate them:

What the chart information means

In this section, we’ll explain the information shown on each chart.

Note that the information displayed in the charts may be:

Cumulative

Charts show information since the start of a particular point until the present moment, e.g. all events of a particular type since the database started

Per Update Period

Charts show information about a particular event that occurred during an update period, e.g. if we have the ‘Update frequency’ set to ‘2 sec’, then the chart will show all events of that particular type that occurred within 2 second periods

Point in Time

Charts show information about a particular event as it was at the point in time that the MongoDB server status was requested from the database

– where the charts show information since the start of a particular point until the present moment, e.g. all events of a particular type since the database started.

The table below details each of the MongoDB server status charts:

Operation Counts
Per Update Period
The number of database operations by type during the update period.
Active Clients
Point in Time
The number of the active client connections performing read and write operations.
Current Queue
Point in Time
The number of operations that are currently queued and waiting for the read or write lock.
Current Connections
Point in Time / Per Update Period
The number of incoming connections from clients to the database server.
‘In use’ and ‘Available’ report the point in time values, ‘Total created’ shows values per update period.
Current Network Requests
Per Update Period
The number of distinct requests that the server has received during the update period.
Current Network Traffic
Per Update Period
The number of bytes that reflects the amount of network traffic received by and sent from this database during the update period.
Total Connections Created
Cumulative
Count of all incoming connections created to the server. This number includes connections that have since closed.
Total Network Requests
Cumulative
The total number of distinct requests that the server has received.
Total Network Traffic
Cumulative
The total number of bytes that reflects the amount of network traffic received by and sent from this database.

More detailed information about the counters the chart data are based upon can be found in the MongoDB documentation.