I just recently got this question from one of my readers and I just posted my response here for future reference: I was impressed about your post about MongoDB because I have similar setup at my company and I was thinking maybe you could give me an advice. We have production servers with mongodb 2.6 …
A friend of mine recently asked about tips and caveats when he was planning a production MongoDB installation. It’s a really nice database for many use cases, but it, as every other, has its quirks. As we have been running MongoDB for several years we have encountered quite many bugs and issues with it. Most …
MongoDB has an internal profiler, but it’s often too complex for a quick statistics to see what kind of queries the database is getting. Luckily there’s an easy way to get some quick statistics with tcpdump. Granted, these examples are pretty naive in terms of accuracy, but they are really fast to do and they …