Database Commands Used by Monitoring

The Monitoring uses a set of MongoDB diagnostic, administrative, and other database commands to report on the status of your MongoDB deployment. The agent uses these commands:

• _isSelf

• buildInfo

• collStats on the following local database collections, which support replication operations:

  • local.oplog.rs

• connPoolStats

• dbStats The Monitoring collects storage statistics for a given database at 20 minute intervals.

• find on the following config database collections, which support sharding operations:

  • config.chunks

  • config.collections

  • config.databases

  • config.lockpings

  • config.mongos

  • config.settings

  • config.shards

• find on the following local database collections, which support replication operations:

  • local.system.replset

• find on the system.profile <<database>.system.profile> collection. Only if database profiling is enabled. Database profiling is disabled by default.

• findOne on the local.oplog.rs collection. Only for MongoDB v2.6 and earlier.

• getCmdLineOpts

• getLog issued with:

  • A value of global. Only if you have enabled log collection.

  • A value of startupWarnings.

• getParameter issued with a value of *

• hostInfo

• listDatabases

• ping

• profile. Only if database profiling is enabled. Database profiling is disabled by default.

• replSetGetStatus

• serverStatus