Introducing: Multi-Kubernetes Cluster Deployment Support

Resilience and scalability are critical for today's production applications. MongoDB and Kubernetes are both well known for their ability to support those needs to the highest level. To better enable developers using MongoDB and Kubernetes, we’ve introduced a series of updates and capabilities that makes it easier to manage MongoDB across multiple Kubernetes clusters. In addition to the previously released support for running MongoDB replica sets and Ops Manager across multiple Kubernetes clusters, we're excited to announce the public preview release of support for Sharded Clusters spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters (GA to follow in November 2024).

Support for deployment across multiple Kubernetes clusters is facilitated through the Enterprise Kubernetes Operator. As a recap for anyone unaware, the Enterprise Operator automates the deployment, scaling, and management of MongoDB clusters in Kubernetes. It simplifies database operations by handling tasks such as backups, upgrades, and failover, ensuring consistent performance and reliability in the Kubernetes environment.

Multi-Kubernetes cluster deployment support enhances availability, resilience, and scalability for critical MongoDB workloads, empowering developers to efficiently manage these workloads within Kubernetes. This approach unlocks the highest level of availability and resilience by allowing shards to be located closer to users and applications, increasing geographical flexibility and reducing latency for globally distributed applications.

Deploying replica sets across multiple Kubernetes clusters

MongoDB replica sets are engineered to ensure high availability, data redundancy, and automated failover in database deployments. A replica set consists of multiple MongoDB instances—one primary and several secondary nodes—all maintaining the same dataset. The primary node handles all write operations, while the secondary nodes replicate the data and are available to take over as primary if the original primary node fails. This architecture is critical for maintaining continuous data availability, especially in production environments where downtime can be costly.

Support for deploying MongoDB replica sets across multiple Kubernetes clusters helps ensure this level of availability for MongoDB-based applications running in Kubernetes. Deploying MongoDB replica sets across multiple Kubernetes clusters enables you to distribute your data, not only across nodes in the Kubernetes cluster, but across different clusters and geographic locations, ensuring that the rest of your deployments remain operational (even if one or more Kubernetes clusters or locations fail) and facilitating faster disaster recovery.

To learn more about how to deploy replica sets across multiple Kubernetes clusters using the Enterprise Kubernetes Operator, visit our documentation.

Sharding MongoDB across multiple Kubernetes clusters

While replica sets duplicate data for resilience (and higher read rates), MongoDB sharded clusters divide the data up between shards, each of which is effectively a replica set, providing resilience for each portion of the data. This helps your database handle large datasets and high-throughput operations since each shard has a primary member handling write operations to that portion of the data; this allows MongoDB to scale up the write throughput horizontally, rather than requiring vertical scaling of every member of a replica set. In a Kubernetes environment, these shards can now be deployed across multiple Kubernetes clusters, giving higher resilience in the event of a loss of a Kubernetes cluster or an entire geographic location. This also offers the ability to locate shards in the same region as the applications or users accessing that portion of the data, reducing latency and improving user experience. Sharding is particularly useful for applications with large datasets and those requiring high availability and resilience as they grow.

Support for sharding MongoDB across multiple Kubernetes clusters is currently in public preview and will be generally available in November.

Deploying Ops Manager across multiple Kubernetes clusters

Ops Manager is the self-hosted management platform that supports automation, monitoring, and backup of MongoDB on your own infrastructure. Ops Manager's most critical function is backup, and deploying it across multiple Kubernetes clusters greatly improves resilience and disaster recovery for your MongoDB deployments in Kubernetes.

With Ops Manager distributed across several Kubernetes clusters, you can ensure that backups of deployments remain robust and available, even if one Kubernetes cluster or site fails. Furthermore, it allows Ops Manager to efficiently manage and monitor MongoDB deployments that are themselves distributed across multiple clusters, improving resilience and simplifying scaling and disaster recovery.

To learn more about how to deploy Ops Manager across multiple Kubernetes clusters using the Enterprise Kubernetes Operator, visit our documentation.

To leverage multi-Kubernetes-cluster support, you can get started with the Enterprise Kubernetes Operator.

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Building Gen AI with MongoDB & AI Partners | September 2024

Last week I was in London for MongoDB.local London —the 19th stop of the 2024 MongoDB.local tour—where MongoDB, our customers, and our AI partners came together to share solutions we’ve been building that enable companies to accelerate their AI journey. I love attending these events because they offer an opportunity to celebrate our collective achievements, and because it’s great to meet so many (mainly Zoom) friends in person! One of the highlights of MongoDB.local London 2024 was the release of our reference architecture with our MAAP partners AWS and Anthropic , which supports memory-enhanced AI agents. This architecture is already helping businesses streamline complex processes and develop smarter, more responsive applications. We also announced a robust set of vector quantization capabilities in MongoDB Atlas Vector Search that will help developers build powerful semantic search and generative AI applications with more scale—and at a lower cost. Now, with support for the ingestion of scalar quantized vectors, you can import and work with quantized vectors from your embedding model providers of choice, including MAAP partners Cohere, Nomic, and others. A big thank you to all of MongoDB’s AI partners, who continually amaze me with their innovation. MongoDB.local London was another great reminder of the power of collaboration, and I’m excited for what lies ahead as we continue to shape the future of AI together. As the Brits say: Cheers! Welcoming new AI and tech partners In September we also welcomed seven new AI and tech partners that offer product integrations with MongoDB. Read on to learn more about each great new partner! Arize Arize AI is a platform that helps organizations visualize and debug the flow of data through AI applications by quickly identifying bottlenecks in LLM calls and understanding agentic paths. "At Arize AI, we are committed to helping AI teams build, evaluate, and troubleshoot cutting-edge agentic systems. Partnering with MongoDB allows us to provide a comprehensive solution for managing the memory and retrieval that these systems rely on”, said Jason Lopatecki, co-founder and CEO of Arize AI. “With MongoDB’s robust vector search and flexible document storage, combined with Arize’s advanced observability and evaluation tools, we’re empowering developers to confidently build and deploy AI applications." Baseten Baseten provides the applied AI research and infrastructure needed to serve custom and open-source machine learning models performantly, scalably, and cost-efficiently. " We're excited to partner with MongoDB to combine their scalable vector database with Baseten's high-performance inference infrastructure and high-performance models. Together, we're enabling companies to build and deploy generative AI applications, such as RAG apps, that not only scale infinitely but also deliver optimal performance per dollar,” said Tuhin Srivastava, CEO of Baseten. “This partnership empowers developers to bring mission-critical AI solutions to market faster, while maintaining cost-effectiveness at every stage of growth." Doppler Doppler is a cloud-based platform that helps teams manage, organize, and secure secrets across environments and applications that can be used throughout the entire development lifecycle. “Doppler rigorously focuses on making the easy path, the most secure path for developers. This is only possible with deep product partnerships with all the tooling developers have come to love. We are excited to join forces with MongoDB to make zero-downtime secrets rotation for non-relational databases effortlessly simple to set up and maintenance-free,” said Brian Vallelunga, founder and CEO of Doppler. “This will immediately bolster the security posture of a company’s most sensitive data without any additional overhead or distractions." Haize Labs Haize Labs automates language model stress testing at massive scales to discover and eliminate failure modes. This, alongside their inference-time mitigations and observability tools, enables the risk-free adoption of AI. " We're thrilled to partner with MongoDB in empowering companies to build RAG applications that are both powerful yet secure, safe, and reliable,” said Leonard Tang, co-founder and CEO of Haize Labs. “MongoDB Atlas has streamlined the process of developing production-ready GenAI systems, and we're excited to work together to accelerate customers' journey to trust and confidence in their GenAI initiatives." Modal Modal is a serverless platform for data and AI/ML engineers to run and deploy code in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Run generative AI models, large-scale batch jobs, job queues, and more, all faster than ever before. “The coming wave of intelligent applications will be built on the potent combination of foundation models, large-scale data, and fast search,” explained Charles Frye, AI Engineer at Modal. “MongoDB Atlas provides an excellent platform for storing, querying, and searching data, from hot new techniques like vector indices to old standbys like lexical search. It's the perfect counterpart to Modal's flexible compute, like serverless GPUs. Together, MongoDB and Modal make it easy to get started with this new paradigm, and then they make it easy to scale it out to millions of users querying billions of records & maxing out thousands of GPUs.” Portkey AI Portkey AI is an AI gateway and observability suite that helps companies develop, deploy, and manage LLM-based applications. " Our partnership with MongoDB is a game-changer for organizations looking to operationalize AI at scale. By combining Portkey's LLMOps expertise with MongoDB's comprehensive data solution, we're enabling businesses to deploy, manage, and scale AI applications with unprecedented efficiency and control,” said Ayush Garg, Chief Technology Officer of Portkey AI. “Together, we're not just streamlining the path from POC to production; we're setting a new standard for how businesses can leverage AI to drive innovation and deliver tangible value." Reka Reka offers fully multimodal models including images, videos with audio, text, and documents to empower AI agents that can see, hear, and speak. "At Reka, we know how challenging it can be to retrieve information buried in unstructured multimodal data. We are excited to join forces with MongoDB to help companies test and optimize multimodal RAG features for faster production deployment,” said Dani Yogatama, CEO of Reka. “Our models understand and reason over multimodal data including text, tables, and images in PDF documents or conversations in videos. Our joint solution streamlines the whole RAG development lifecycle, speeding up time to market and helping companies deliver real values to their customers faster." But wait, there's more! To learn more about building AI-powered apps with MongoDB, check out our AI Resources Hub , and stop by our Partner Ecosystem Catalog to read about our integrations with MongoDB’s ever-evolving AI partner ecosystem.

October 9, 2024
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MongoDB Database Observability: Integrating with Monitoring Tools

This post is the final in a three-part series on leveraging database observability. Welcome back to our series on Leveraging Database Observability! Our previous post showcased a real-world use case highlighting how MongoDB Atlas’s observability tools effectively tackle database performance challenges. Whether you’re a developer, DBA, or DevOps engineer, our mission is to empower you to harness the full potential of your data through our observability suite . Integrating Atlas metrics with your central enterprise observability tools can simplify your operations. By seamlessly working with popular observability tools, our approach helps teams streamline workflows and enhance visibility across systems. Integrating MongoDB Atlas with third-party monitoring tools MongoDB’s developer data platform combines all essential data services for building modern applications within a unified experience. Our purpose-built observability tools for Atlas environments offer automatic monitoring and optimization, guiding diagnostics tailored specifically for MongoDB. Additionally, we extend Atlas metrics into your existing enterprise observability stack, enabling seamless integration without replacing your current tools. This creates a consolidated, single-pane view that unifies Atlas telemetry with other tech and application metrics, ensuring comprehensive visibility into both database and full-stack performance. This integration empowers you to monitor, receive alerts, and make data-driven decisions within your existing workflows, driving greater efficiency. Below is a quick guide to modifying integration settings through the Atlas UI and the popular integrations we support: Navigate to the Project Integrations page in Atlas. Choose the organization and project you want to configure from the navigation bar. On the Project Integrations page, select the third-party services you’d like to integrate. Configure the chosen services with the required API keys and regions. Critical integrations for your observability platform With Atlas’s Datadog and Prometheus integrations, you can send critical MongoDB metrics to these platforms, empowering detailed, real-time monitoring. Through Datadog , you can track database operation counts, query efficiency, and resource usage, ideal for pinpointing bottlenecks and managing resources. Similarly, Prometheus enables you to monitor essential metrics like query times, connection rates, and memory usage, supporting flexible tracking of database health and performance. Both integrations facilitate proactive detection of issues, alert configuration for resource thresholds, and a cohesive view of Atlas data when visualized in Grafana. Atlas’s integration with PagerDuty streamlines incident management by sending metrics like performance alerts, billing anomalies, and security events directly to PagerDuty. This integration records incidents automatically, notifies teams upon alerts, and supports two-way syncing, ensuring resolved alerts in Atlas are reflected in PagerDuty. It enables efficient incident response and resource allocation to maintain system stability. With Atlas integrations for Microsoft Teams and Slack, you can route key metrics—such as query latency, disk usage, and throughput—to these channels for timely updates. Teams can use these insights for real-time performance monitoring, incident response, and collaboration. Notifications through these platforms ensure your team stays informed on database performance, storage health, and user activity changes as they occur. Use case: Centralized observability with MongoDB Atlas, Datadog, and Slack Let’s walk through a hypothetical scenario for ShopSmart, an e-commerce company that leverages MongoDB Atlas to manage its product catalog and customer data. As traffic surges, the DevOps team faces challenges in monitoring application performance and database health effectively. To tackle these challenges, the team leverages MongoDB Atlas’ integration with Datadog and Slack, creating a powerful observability ecosystem. Integrating MongoDB Atlas with Datadog: The team pushes key MongoDB Atlas metrics into Datadog, such as query performance, connection counts, and Atlas Vector Search metrics. With Datadog, they can visualize these metrics and correlate overall MongoDB performance with their other applications. Out-of-the-box monitors and dedicated dashboards allow the team to track metrics like throughput, average read/write latency, and current connections. This visibility helps pinpoint bottlenecks in real time, ensuring optimal database performance and improving overall application responsiveness. Setting up alerts in Datadog: The team configures alerts for critical metrics like high query latency and increased error rates. When thresholds are breached, Datadog instantly notifies the team. This proactive approach allows the team to address potential performance issues before they impact customers. Integrating Datadog with Slack: To ensure fast communication, alerts are sent directly to the dedicated Slack channel, “ShopSmart-Alerts.” This integration fosters seamless collaboration, enabling the team to discuss and resolve issues in real-time. With these integrations, ShopSmart’s engineering team can monitor performance quickly and address issues efficiently. The unified observability approach enhances operational efficiency, improves the customer experience, and supports ShopSmart’s competitive edge in the e-commerce industry. By leveraging MongoDB Atlas, Datadog, and Slack, the team ensures scalable performance and drives continuous innovation. Conclusion MongoDB Atlas empowers developers and organizations to achieve unparalleled observability and control over their database environments. By seamlessly integrating with central enterprise observability tools, Atlas enhances your ability to monitor performance metrics and ensures you can do so within your existing workflows. This means you can focus on building modern applications confidently, knowing you have the insights and alerts necessary to maintain optimal performance. Embrace the power of MongoDB Atlas and transform your approach to database management—because your applications can thrive when your data is observable. And that wraps up our Leveraging Database Observability series! We hope you learned something new and found value in these discussions. Sign up for MongoDB Atlas , our cloud database service, to see database observability in action. To dive deeper and expand your knowledge, check out this learning byte for more insights on the MongoDB observability suite and how it can enhance your database performance.

November 14, 2024