MongoDB Atlas receiver 🔗
The MongoDB Atlas receiver allows the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to collect metrics from MongoDB Atlas through its monitoring API. The supported pipeline type is metrics
. See Configure pipelines for more information.
Database metrics are dimensionalized by project and database attributes, for example, project_name
and
database_name
.
Note
Use the MongoDB Atlas receiver in place of the SignalFx Smart Agent mongodb-atlas
monitor type.
Get started 🔗
Follow these steps to configure and activate the component:
Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to your host or container platform:
Configure the MongoDB Atlas receiver as described in the next section.
Restart the Collector.
Sample configurations 🔗
To activate the MongoDB Atlas receiver, add mongodbatlas
to the receivers
section of your
configuration file, as shown in the following example:
# In this example, both values are pulled from the environment.
receivers:
mongodbatlas:
public_key: ${MONGODB_ATLAS_PUBLIC_KEY}
# You can obtain the public key from the API Keys tab of the MongoDB Atlas Project Access Manager.
# This value is required.
private_key: ${MONGODB_ATLAS_PRIVATE_KEY}
# You can obtain the private key from the API Keys tab of the MongoDB Atlas Project Access Manager.
# This value is required.
To complete the configuration, include the receiver in the metrics
pipeline of the service
section of your
configuration file. For example:
service:
pipelines:
metrics:
receivers: [mongodbatlas]
Settings 🔗
The following table shows the configuration options for the MongoDB Atlas:
Metrics 🔗
The following metrics, resource attributes, and attributes are available.
Deactivate metrics 🔗
To deactivate any metric, apply the following configuration:
metrics:
<metric_name>:
enabled: false
Troubleshooting 🔗
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