Tag: topology

Elasticsearch: useful commands for DBAs

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As a production DBA, you can fall into a situation where you have to act on an environment you do not know.

It can be very difficult to understand how the architecture was designed, but if you know the right commands, you can get a quick overview and all the information you need to start working.

Today, I’m going to give you these basic commands that will help you understand how an Elasticsearch installation was performed on an RHEL system.

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MongoDB sharded cluster topology

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Today, I’m going to share with you a bash script that gives you a quick overview of the topology of your MongoDB cluster.

It will give you:

  • The list and status of your mongos
  • The list and status of your config server
  • The list and status of every replica set members present in your cluster (including secondary members and arbiters), plus:
    • The date of the last role change between primary and secondary
    • The apply lag between primary and all secondary members
    • The oplog window
  • The balancer status

You can download the script on my GitHut repository “MyDBAWorld”.

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