Best Practices for MongoDB Monitoring with Prometheus

MongoDB, a popular document-oriented database, is scalable and easily integrates with JSON, making it compatible with programming languages like JavaScript. Monitoring MongoDB is essential for maintaining performance, and Prometheus is a widely used tool for this purpose, despite MongoDB not supporting it natively. By using a MongoDB exporter, users can convert MongoDB data into Prometheus-compatible metrics, which can be run as a container or a process. Prometheus can then scrape these metrics to provide insights into various performance indicators such as operation execution time, replication lag, and memory utilization. Integrating with Logz.io can further simplify the management of Prometheus by providing scalable, hassle-free monitoring and visualization, along with alerting capabilities, to ensure databases remain reliable and performant.