Cloud Database
Foglight for Atlas MongoDB
Unified monitoring across the Atlas managed cloud
Description
MongoDB Atlas is a cloud platform-as-a-service operated by MongoDB, Inc., the producer of the open-source database of the same name. Atlas is a managed MongoDB environment integrated with Amazon Cloud Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. An organization user can create a MongoDB cluster within a logical project.
Some features of Atlas, such as programmatic API keys, are configured at either the organization or project level, while others, such as database users, are configured at the cluster level. Within a project, different clusters can be created in different cloud provider environments. Unlike some cloud providers' MongoDB-compatible offerings, clusters created on the Atlas platform are composed of true MongoDB instances.
Business Challenge
Atlas is a complex environment with a complex user interface. Atlas configuration and administration is mixed with database configuration and administration, and settings for different components of the same type are not visible together at a glance. Slow queries, for example, can only be viewed cluster by cluster rather than across the organization. Alerting is available, but with the exception of a handful of rules, each rule must be configured for each organization and project by the Atlas user.
To the extent that Atlas offers database monitoring, it offers it only for Atlas instances - not for on-premise or private cloud MongoDB installations or for DocumentDB clusters. Performance, storage, and availability monitoring are critical to enterprise database management, and maintaining tooling to perform automated monitoring can be both challenging and distracting for teams whose focus is on developing and operating database applications.
Key Features
Foglight for Atlas MongoDB is designed to provide the enterprise with a powerful tool that can act standalone or as part of broader cross-platform database monitoring requirements. It supports the monitoring of key components and functions including organizations, projects, clusters, instances, CPU utilization, memory usage, operations, replication, and storage.
As with all Foglight solutions, Foglight for Atlas MongoDB runs as a native Foglight process residing on the Foglight Agent Manager (FglAM) independent of both the Atlas environment and the monitored database instances. The solution leverages the Foglight Rules Engine, providing the ability to evaluate and alert on potential issues before they significantly affect performance and availability.
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