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rainforest @rainforestqa Ops Skills and Tools for Beginners

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Russell Smith ! English guy Mongo DB Master Ex Ops consultant Ruby / PHP developer YC S12 Alum Using mongo in Prod since 1.6/1.8

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@rainforestqa rainforest Rainforest QA ! Insanely simple testing checkout: www.rainforestqa.com

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What is Ops?

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@rainforestqa rainforest Setting up servers / services

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@rainforestqa rainforest Supporting Engineers

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@rainforestqa rainforest Keeping stuff running

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@rainforestqa rainforest Avoiding disasters

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@rainforestqa rainforest Fixing breakage

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Lets Learn the basics

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Installation

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@rainforestqa rainforest Replicated

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@rainforestqa rainforest Sharded

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@rainforestqa rainforest Best practices Ubuntu is simplest Install from Mongo’s repo Chose the right replica set size: 3 nodes Never use 32 bits

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@rainforestqa rainforest Alternatives MongoHQ MonogLab ObjectRocket MMS + AWS (via automation)

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Monitoring Mongo

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@rainforestqa rainforest Server components

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@rainforestqa rainforest Storage magnetic, ssd metric: disk io

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@rainforestqa rainforest Memory / RAM fastest general store metrics; free, swap usage

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@rainforestqa rainforest Network allows communication use 1gbit or higher (avoid 100mbit) metrics; latency, throughput

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@rainforestqa rainforest CPU more is better mostly used metrics; % usage

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@rainforestqa rainforest Monitoring & Diagnostics

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@rainforestqa rainforest Top things to monitor Failover events Repl Lag Connections Lock % Disk usage

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@rainforestqa rainforest Hosted is Simplest

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MMS Hosted, free for monitoring ! Also can do Backups Automation

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Scout Monitors mongo, servers and many others (Plugins!) ! non-free

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Server Density Monitors mongo, servers and many others (Plugins!) ! non-free

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@rainforestqa rainforest Opensource options Ganglia Munin Nagios Zabbix

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Linux tools to learn mongostat / mongotop top iostat vmstat netstat

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@rainforestqa rainforest Mongo shell rs.conf() rs.status() db.serverStatus() db.stats() db.currentOp()

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@rainforestqa rainforest Backups

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@rainforestqa rainforest Backup options mongodump from the file system LVM / EBS MMS

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@rainforestqa rainforest TEST YOUR BACKUPS

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Common pitfals

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Missing indexes! Running out of disk space Untested backups Sharding too late / wrong key un-replicated / even set size

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@rainforestqa rainforest Conclusion do backups monitor read the docs

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rainforest @rainforestqa Questions? @rainforestqa @rhs