Monitoring Tool Integrations

Available Monitoring Surfaces

The following table summarizes the surfaces that mongot exposes for monitoring:

Prometheus and Grafana

Prometheus with Grafana is the recommended monitoring stack for most self-managed deployments. The stack is free, widely supported, and works directly with the mongot metrics endpoint.

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: mongot
    scrape_interval: 15s
    scrape_timeout: 10s
    static_configs:
      - targets:
          - mongot-host-1.internal:9946
          - mongot-host-2.internal:9946
        labels:
          deployment: prod
          edition: ce

apiVersion: monitoring.coreos.com/v1
kind: PodMonitor
metadata:
  name: mongot
  namespace: <mongot-namespace>
spec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: <resource-name>-search
  podMetricsEndpoints:
    - port: metrics
      interval: 15s

groups:
  - name: mongot_recording
    interval: 30s
    rules:
      - record: mongot:search_latency_p99
        expr: max(mongot_command_searchCommandTotalLatency_seconds{quantile="0.99"})
      - record: mongot:vector_search_latency_p99
        expr: max(mongot_command_vectorSearchCommandTotalLatency_seconds{quantile="0.99"})
      - record: mongot:search_rate:rate5m
        expr: sum(rate(mongot_command_searchCommandTotalLatency_seconds_count[5m]))
      - record: mongot:search_failure_rate:rate5m
        expr: sum(rate(mongot_command_searchCommandFailure_total[5m]))
      - record: mongot:replication_lag_ms:max
        expr: max(mongot_index_stats_indexing_replicationLagMs)
      - record: mongot:heap_utilization_post_gc
        expr: mongot_jvm_gc_live_data_size_bytes / mongot_jvm_gc_max_data_size_bytes
      - record: mongot:gc_pause_worst
        expr: max(mongot_jvm_gc_pause_seconds_max)

groups:
  - name: mongot_alerts
    rules:
      - alert: MongotDown
        expr: up{job="mongot"} == 0
        for: 1m
        labels:
          severity: page
        annotations:
          summary: "mongot is down ({{ $labels.instance }})"
      - alert: MongotReplicationLagGrowing
        expr: deriv(max(mongot_index_stats_indexing_replicationLagMs)[15m:1m]) > 500
        for: 10m
        labels:
          severity: page
      - alert: MongotHeapPressure
        expr: mongot:heap_utilization_post_gc > 0.85
        for: 5m
        labels:
          severity: page

OpenTelemetry

If your organization standardizes on OpenTelemetry, the OpenTelemetry Collector can ingest mongot metrics from the Prometheus endpoint and forward them to any OTLP-compatible backend:

receivers:
  prometheus:
    config:
      scrape_configs:
        - job_name: mongot
          scrape_interval: 15s
          static_configs:
            - targets:
                - localhost:9946
exporters:
  otlphttp:
    endpoint: https://<your-otel-backend>
service:
  pipelines:
    metrics:
      receivers:
        - prometheus
      exporters:
        - otlphttp

This pattern is provider-neutral. The same collector configuration works for Honeycomb, Grafana Cloud, New Relic, and other backends.

To forward logs, configure mongot to write JSON to stdout. The collector can then parse the structured fields and route the logs to your backend.

Encaminhamento de registros

mongot writes structured JSON logs to stdout and stderr by default. Forward stdout to your centralized log platform and ingest the logs as JSON.

Health Checks

mongot exposes two HTTP endpoints on port 8080 by default:

Both endpoints return JSON with HTTP 200. Treat {"status":"SERVING"} as healthy and {"status":"NOT_SERVING"} as unhealthy. An invalid query parameter returns HTTP 400 with {"error":"BAD_REQUEST"}.

Like the metrics endpoint, the /health and /ready endpoints are unauthenticated by default. Protect them at the network layer.

In Kubernetes, map the liveness probe to /health and the readiness probe to /ready:

livenessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /health
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 30
  periodSeconds: 10
  failureThreshold: 3
readinessProbe:
  httpGet:
    path: /ready
    port: 8080
  initialDelaySeconds: 5
  periodSeconds: 5
  failureThreshold: 3

If you use /health for both probes, a pod can receive traffic before its indexes initialize, because /health returns SERVING as soon as the services bind. The two-endpoint split exists to separate these signals.

When the MongoDB Controllers for Kubernetes Operator manages more than one mongot pod, it provisions a default load balancer and routes traffic based on the /ready endpoint for you. For self-managed deployments that run their own load balancer in front of multiple mongot instances, configure the load balancer to route traffic only to instances that return SERVING on /ready.

To keep a pod ready even when some indexes fail to initialize, set the readiness probe path to /ready?allowFailedIndexes=true. This setting is a deliberate tradeoff, because failed indexes return empty results for queries that reach them.

Multi-Instance Considerations

If your deployment runs more than one mongot instance, each instance exposes its own metrics endpoint. Scrape each instance individually, then use Prometheus aggregations, such as sum, max, and avg, to see a combined view of the metrics.

Track replication lag, executor queue depth, and query latency for each instance and in aggregate. A single saturated instance can degrade latency for the queries it serves, and fleet-wide averages can hide this degradation.

For sharded clusters, label each scrape with the shard name so that you can roll the metrics up per shard.

FTDC and Support Cases

When you open a MongoDB Support case, attach the FTDC capture from the affected mongot instance. To learn the capture procedure, see mongot Logs and FTDC.