MongoDB Receiver
This receiver fetches stats from a MongoDB instance using the golang
mongo driver. Stats are collected
via MongoDB's dbStats
and serverStatus
commands.
Purpose
The purpose of this receiver is to allow users to monitor metrics from standalone MongoDB clusters. This includes non-Atlas managed MongoDB Servers.
Prerequisites
This receiver supports MongoDB versions:
Mongodb recommends to set up a least privilege user (LPU) with a clusterMonitor
role in order to collect metrics. Please refer to lpu.sh for an example of how to configure these permissions.
Configuration
The following settings are optional:
hosts
(default: [localhost:27017
]): list of host:port
or unix domain socket endpoints.
- For standalone MongoDB deployments this is the hostname and port of the mongod instance
- For replica sets specify the hostnames and ports of the mongod instances that are in the replica set configuration. If the
replica_set
field is specified, nodes will be autodiscovered.
- For a sharded MongoDB deployment, please specify a list of the
mongos
hosts.
username
: If authentication is required, the user can with clusterMonitor
permissions can be provided here.
password
: If authentication is required, the password can be provided here.
collection_interval
: (default = 1m
): This receiver collects metrics on an interval. This value must be a string readable by Golang's time.ParseDuration. Valid time units are ns
, us
(or µs
), ms
, s
, m
, h
.
initial_delay
(default = 1s
): defines how long this receiver waits before starting.
replica_set
: If the deployment of MongoDB is a replica set then this allows users to specify the replica set name which allows for autodiscovery of other nodes in the replica set.
timeout
: (default = 1m
) The timeout of running commands against mongo.
tls
: (defaults defined here): TLS control. By default insecure settings are rejected and certificate verification is on.
Example Configuration
receivers:
mongodb:
hosts:
- endpoint: localhost:27017
username: otel
password: ${env:MONGODB_PASSWORD}
collection_interval: 60s
initial_delay: 1s
tls:
insecure: true
insecure_skip_verify: true
The full list of settings exposed for this receiver are documented here with detailed sample configurations here.
Metrics
The following metric are available with versions:
mongodb.extent.count
< 4.4 with mmapv1 storage engine
mongodb.session.count
>= 3.0 with wiredTiger storage engine
mongodb.cache.operations
>= 3.0 with wiredTiger storage engine
mongodb.connection.count
with attribute active
is available >= 4.0
mongodb.index.access.count
>= 4.0
Details about the metrics produced by this receiver can be found in metadata.yaml
Feature gate configurations
See the Collector feature gates for an overview of feature gates in the collector.
ALPHA: receiver.mongodb.removeDatabaseAttr
The feature gate receiver.mongodb.removeDatabaseAttr
once enabled will remove database name attribute,
because both resource and datapoint attributes are called database.
This feature gate will eventually be enabled by default, and eventually the old implementation will be removed. It aims
to give users time to migrate to the new implementation. The target release for this featuregate to be enabled by default
is 0.94.0.