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Fix IOPS Issues

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  • Alert Conditions
  • Common Triggers
  • Fix the Immediate Problem
  • Implement a Long-Term Solution
  • Monitor Your Progress

System and disk alert conditions can indicate IOPS issues.

Note

All hardware metrics have burst reporting equivalents with distinct configurable alerts. To learn more, see Burst Reporting.

You can configure the following alert conditions in the project-level alert settings page to trigger alerts.

The Disk read IOPS on Data Partition is alert condition is raised if the average number of disk read operations per second exceeds the specified threshold.

The Disk write IOPS on Data Partition is alert condition is raised if the average number of disk write operations per second exceeds the specified threshold.

System: CPU (User) % is measures the CPU usage of the processes on the node, normalized by the number of CPUs. This value is scaled to a range of 0-100%.

A few common events may trigger these alerts:

  • Unoptimized queries.

  • A one-time event, such as an index build.

Consider a few possible actions to help resolve these alerts:

  • Optimize your queries.

  • Use the Atlas Performance Advisor to view slow queries and suggested indexes.

  • Review Indexing Strategies for possible further indexing improvements.

    Note

    You may need to temporarily increase your cluster IOPS to create new indexes. To change a cluster's IOPS, go to the Cluster Configuration page and:

    Cloud Provider
    Tier

    Possible Actions

    AWS

    M10, M20

    AWS

    M30 or larger

    Google Cloud

    M10 or larger
    Azure
    M10 or larger
  • Analyze Query Performance to review how your queries are using your indexes.

  • Increase hardware resources, such as instance size and IOPS, in the Cluster Configuration Page.

Atlas clusters deployed to Azure may use credit-based bursting, but the disk will burst only if it has burst credits accumulated in its credit bucket. Azure also offers an on-demand bursting model, where the disk bursts whenever its needs exceed its current capacity.

See the Azure Disk Bursting documentation for more information about how bursting for Azure disks works.

If you regularly exceed your configured IOPS threshold, you can avoid depleting your burst credits by increasing your configured IOPS with any of the following actions:

  • Increase Cluster IOPS to increase the cluster's IOPS threshold.

  • Increase Storage Capacity. The IOPS threshold increases as you increase storage capacity. Clusters configured to use at least 1 TB of storage have baseline IOPS performance that is equal to or greater than the maximum burst performance. These volumes do not deplete burst credit balances.

  • Upgrade Cluster Tier. Larger cluster tiers include higher IOPS thresholds.

    Note

    Cluster tiers M140 and larger are deployed with at least 1 TB of storage capacity by default. Clusters with 1 TB or more of storage capacity do not deplete burst credit balances.

These are a few possible methods to observe high disk I/O:

  • The disk IOPS use from the Disk IOPS graph in the cluster metrics exceeds the provisioned IOPS from the Atlas cluster configuration page.

  • The Normalized System CPU metric has a high IOWait curve. IOWait measures the percentage of time the CPU is idle and waiting for an I/O operation to complete. The Normalized System CPU chart is located under the Hardware Metrics section of the Metrics tab.

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