Administration Concepts¶

The core administration documents address strategies and practices used in the operation of MongoDB systems and deployments.

Higher level documentation of key concepts for the operation and maintenance of MongoDB deployments.

MongoDB Backup Methods: Describes approaches and considerations for backing up a MongoDB database.
Monitoring for MongoDB: An overview of monitoring tools, diagnostic strategies, and approaches to monitoring replica sets and sharded clusters.
Run-time Database Configuration: Outlines common MongoDB configurations and examples of best-practice configurations for common use cases.

Continue reading from Operational Strategies for additional documentation.

Core documentation that addresses issues in data management, organization, maintenance, and lifecycle management.

Data Center Awareness: Presents the MongoDB features that allow application developers and database administrators to configure their deployments to be more data center aware or allow operational and location-based separation.
Capped Collections: Capped collections provide a special type of size-constrained collections that preserve insertion order and can support high volume inserts.
Expire Data from Collections by Setting TTL: TTL collections make it possible to automatically remove data from a collection based on the value of a timestamp and are useful for managing data like machine generated event data that are only useful for a limited period of time.

Techniques for optimizing application performance with MongoDB.

Continue reading from Optimization Strategies for MongoDB for additional documentation.

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