mongodb

Continuing with our MongoDB monitoring series, today we are releasing Cacti Performance Graphing templates and unit tested data sources for MongoDB. These are built on top of Baron Schwartz's excellent Cacti Graph framework found here (http://code.google.com/p/mysql-cacti-templates). This framework allows you to define graphs via a simple (relatively) perl file and to create testable data sources for your graphs. I highly recommend it.

There has been a lot of talk about No-SQL databases recently, especially in the Drupal community. One of the most popular being MongoDB, due to its easy interface, feature-full design and speed. Use of MongoDB and No-SQL in general is only going to increase in the coming months.

At Tag1, we have been working on a few projects with MongoDB as a central infrastructure component. Due to this, we have come upon one of Mongo's problems, youth and because of youth a lack of good tools around it. Monitoring in particular is a complete vacuum. Over the next few weeks we will be releasing the first round of tools we have developed to monitor and test MongoDB, the first being a Nagios Plugin called check_mongo.