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MongoDB πŸ”—

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector uses the Smart Agent receiver with the MongoDB monitor type to capture the following metrics about MongoDB:

  • Memory

  • Network input/output bytes count

  • Heap usage

  • DB connections

  • Operations count

  • Active client connections

  • Queued operations

The plugin also captures the following DB-specific metrics:

  • DB size

  • DB counters

This integration is only available on Kubernetes and Linux.

This integration requires MongoDB 2.6 or higher.

Benefits πŸ”—

After you configure the integration, you can access these features:

Installation πŸ”—

Follow these steps to deploy this integration:

  1. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:

  2. Configure the monitor, as described in the Configuration section.

  3. Restart the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector.

Authentication πŸ”—

If you’re monitoring a secured MongoDB deployment, create a MongoDB user with minimal read-only roles, as follows:

db.createUser( {
  user: "<username>",
  pwd: "<password>",
  roles: [ { role: "readAnyDatabase", db: "admin" }, { role: "clusterMonitor", db: "admin" } ]
});

Note

Only SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication is supported.

Configuration πŸ”—

To use this integration of a Smart Agent monitor with the Collector:

  1. Include the Smart Agent receiver in your configuration file.

  2. Add the monitor type to the Collector configuration, both in the receiver and pipelines sections.

Example πŸ”—

To activate this integration, add the following to your Collector configuration:

receivers:
  smartagent/mongodb:
    type: collectd/mongodb
    ...  # Additional config

Next, add the monitor to the service.pipelines.metrics.receivers section of your configuration file:

service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers: [smartagent/mongodb]

Configuration settings πŸ”—

The following table shows the configuration options for the MongoDB monitor:

Option

Required

Type

Description

pythonBinary

No

string

Path to the Python binary. If not set, a built-in runtime is

used. This setting can include arguments to the binary.

host

Yes

string

Hostname or IP address of the MongoDB instance.

port

Yes

integer

Port of the MongoDB instance. The default value is 27017.

databases

Yes

list of strings

Name of the databases you want to monitor. The first database in

this list must be admin, as it’s used to perform a serverStatus() call.

username

No

string

MongoDB user.

password

No

string

Password of the user defined in username.

useTLS

No

bool

If true, the monitor connects to MongoDB using TLS. The

default value is false.

caCerts

No

string

Path to a CA cert used to verify the certificate that MongoDB

presents. Not needed if not using TLS or if MongoDB certificate is signed by a globally trusted issuer already installed in the default location on your system.

tlsClientCert

No

string

Path to a client certificate. Not needed unless your MongoDB

instance requires x509 client verification.

tlsClientKey

No

string

Path to a client certificate key. Not needed unless your MongoDB

instance requires x509 client verification, or if your client certificate defined in tlsClientCert includes the key.

tlsClientKeyPassPhrase

No

string

Passphrase for the TLS client key defined in tlsClientKey.

sendCollectionMetrics

No

bool

Whether to send collection level metrics or not. The default

value is false.

sendCollectionTopMetrics

No

bool

Whether to send collection level top timing metrics or not. The

default value is false.

Note

When using TLS authentication, SCRAM-SHA-256 is not supported. Use SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication.

Metrics πŸ”—

The following metrics are available for this integration:

Notes πŸ”—

  • To learn more about the available in Observability Cloud see Metric types

  • In host-based subscription plans, default metrics are those metrics included in host-based subscriptions in Observability Cloud, such as host, container, or bundled metrics. Custom metrics are not provided by default and might be subject to charges. See Metric categories for more information.

  • In MTS-based subscription plans, all metrics are custom.

  • To add additional metrics, see how to configure extraMetrics in Add additional metrics

Troubleshooting πŸ”—

If you are a Splunk Observability Cloud customer and are not able to see your data in Splunk Observability Cloud, you can get help in the following ways.

Available to Splunk Observability Cloud customers

Available to prospective customers and free trial users

  • Ask a question and get answers through community support at Splunk Answers .

  • Join the Splunk #observability user group Slack channel to communicate with customers, partners, and Splunk employees worldwide. To join, see Chat groups in the Get Started with Splunk Community manual.

To learn about even more support options, see Splunk Customer Success .