by Adamo Tonete | Sep 1, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Percona Software
This blog was originally published in October 2017 and was updated in September 2023.In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB sharding and walk through the main reasons why you should start a cluster (independent of the approach you have chosen). Database... by Adamo Tonete | Oct 28, 2019 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Security
Hi everyone! This is one of the most requested subjects to our support team and I’d like to share the steps as a tutorial blog post. Today, we will set up internal authentication using x.509 certificates as well as enabling TSL/SSL.If using authentication in... by Adamo Tonete | Jul 18, 2019 | MongoDB
When a MongoDB server crashes you will usually find what is called a “stack trace” in its log file. But what is it and what purpose does it have? Let’s simulate a simple crash so we can dig into it. Crashing a test server In a test setup with a... by Adamo Tonete | Jul 5, 2019 | MongoDB
A time ago we wrote about how personalized roles may help you to give specific permissions when it is needed. This time we want to discuss how a custom role, combined with a MongoDB View, can hide sensitive information from the client. Hiding Fields in MongoDB Suppose... by Adamo Tonete | Mar 20, 2019 | Benchmarks, MongoDB
ARM processors have been around for a while. In mid-2015/2016 there were a couple of attempts by the community to port MongoDB to work with this architecture. At the time, the main storage engine was MMAP and most of the available ARM boards were 32-bits. Overall, the... by Adamo Tonete | Sep 17, 2018 | Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete, as he presents Percona Server for MongoDB vs MongoDB Enterprise on Wednesday, September 19th, 2018, at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) / 3:30 PM EDT (UTC-4).Register Now In this webinar we will... by Adamo Tonete | Jul 24, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Sharding 101 – Geo-Partitioning on Thursday, July 26th, 2018 at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) 3:30 EDT (UTC-4). Register NowIn this webinar, we will discuss the common shard keys and... by Adamo Tonete | Jul 18, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Sharding 101 on July 19th, 2018, at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) / 3:30 PM EDT (UTC-4). Register Now This tutorial is a continuation of advanced topics for the DBA. In it, we will... by Adamo Tonete | Jun 25, 2018 | Cloud, MongoDB, Open Source
MongoDB 4.0 is just around the corner and with rc0 we can get a good idea of what we can expect in the GA version. MongoDB 4.0 will allow transactions to run in a replica set and, in a future release, the MongoDB transaction will work for sharded clusters. This... by Adamo Tonete | Jun 22, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
In this blog post, we will talk a bit about the product MongoDB Compass. This new tool has 3 main versions, these being: Community, Enterprise and Enterprise Read Only. MongoDB Compass Community is free, but a bit limited. It allows you to connect to... by Adamo Tonete | May 22, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Please join Percona’s Senior Support Engineer, Adamo Tonete as he presents What’s New in MongoDB 3.6 on Thursday, May 24th, 2018, at 12:30 PM PDT (UTC-7) / 3:30 PM EDT (UTC-4).In this webinar, Adamo will walk though what’s new in MongoDB 3.6,... by Adamo Tonete | Apr 9, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will cover how to start MongoDB database software in the three most used platforms: Windows/Linux/MacOS.If you have just started with NoSQL databases, you might wonder how to evaluate if MongoDB is a good fit for your application.Percona... by Adamo Tonete | Mar 22, 2018 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB
Have you ever had performance issues with your MongoDB database? A common situation is a sudden performance issue when running a query. The obvious first solution is “let’s create an index!” While this works in some cases, there are other... by Adamo Tonete | Mar 2, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Monitoring, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will discuss how to use Percona Monitoring and Management for MongoDB monitoring, and how to get some key graphs to monitor your MongoDB database.All production environments need metrics and historical data for easy and fast comparison of... by Adamo Tonete | Dec 13, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MongoDB, Percona Software
In this blog post, we are going to focus on the pre-cursors to MongoDB 3.6 transactions.As already discussed in this series, MongoDB 3.6 has a good number of features in it. Many of them center around sessions (which David Murphy already talked about). Some... by Adamo Tonete | Nov 7, 2017 | MongoDB, Percona Software, Webinars
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Adamo Tonete as he presents MongoDB Security Webinars: Enhanced Security Using LDAP Authentication on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 11:00 am PST / 2:00 pm EST (UTC-8). Experience: Intermediate Tags: SysAdmin,... by Adamo Tonete | Nov 6, 2017 | MongoDB, Security
In this blog post, we’ll focus on MongoDB security and discuss how to configure Percona Server for MongoDB to authenticate a user with an LDAP server.It is important to mention that Percona Server for MongoDB features LDAP authentication free of... by Adamo Tonete | Oct 17, 2017 | Benchmarks, Hardware and Storage, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
Join Percona’s Senior Technical Services Engineer Adamo Tonete as he presents How To Scale with MongoDB on Wednesday, October 18, 2017, at 11:00 am PDT / 2:00 pm EDT (UTC-7). Register NowIn this webinar, we will talk about how to scale with MongoDB, up to... by Adamo Tonete | Jul 8, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Webinars
In this blog post, we will talk about MongoDB indexing, and the different types of indexes that are available in MongoDB.Note: We are hosting a webinar on July 12, 2017, where I will talk about MongoDB indexes and how to choose a good indexing plan.MongoDB is a NoSQL... by Adamo Tonete | Jul 7, 2017 | Insight for DBAs, MongoDB
In this blog post, I’ll look at how you can use a backup to start a secondary instance for MongoDB.Although the documentation says it is not possible to use a backup to start a secondary, sometimes this is the only possible way to start a new instance. In... 
