Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Upgrade MongoDB MMS monitoring agent

PROBLEM:
How to upgrade MongoDB MMS monitoring agent?

SOLUTION:
The MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS) is a cloud-based monitoring service, designed by MongoDB, to monitor the health of MongoDB deployments. MMS provides an agent that runs on MongoDB servers, and this agent reports information such as opcounters, memory information, number of connections, network I/O, database storage size, and more. All of this information is available in customizable charts that are displayed in your web browser.

To install the monitoring agent register here and follow the wizard instructions.

To upgrade:

  • Open MMS dashboard
  • Choose "Administration" -> "Agents"
  • Click one of the links in the "Monitoring" section
  • A window with header "Install or Update the Monitoring Agent.." will open
  • In the header section, choose "UPDATE"
  • Continue with the instructions in the page (example below..)


Example (for RHEL/CentOS (5.X, 6.X), SUSE, and Amazon Linux - RPM):


1. Download the 32-bit or 64-bit rpm.

curl -OL https://mms.mongodb.com/download/agent/monitoring/mongodb-mms-monitoring-agent-2.8.0.143-1.x86_64.rpm

2. Install the package

sudo rpm -U mongodb-mms-monitoring-agent-2.8.0.143-1.x86_64.rpm

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