Ways to connect mongodb to grafana

Question

My question is different ways to connect mongodb with grafana

Link for reference ?

Depurative

Are looking for a way to monitor MongoDB stats or your MongoDB datas ? – Haft

nope , i need to visualize an time series data in mongo db – Depurative

Do you mean connect mongodb as a datasource in Grafana? Because the provided link is a kind of node-exporter for Prometheus. In this case the datasource is Prometheus not mongodb... – Seclusive

yes i need to connect the mongodb as data source for grafana . Right we are connecting mongo through simple json plugin but its creating redundancy and processing is slow – Depurative

There's also a new MongoDB data source plugin for paid Grafana: grafana.com/grafana/plugins/grafana-mongodb-datasource – Mandell

Answer 1

Try using MongoDB datasource for Grafana

It should allow you to hook up your MongoDB data source just fine...

Source

Horrified

Answer 2

Right now grafana doesn't support MongoDB as a data source Using mongoDB as back-end repository

But they offer a workaround grafana simple json data source

Coronation

Yes ,i have used second option. we have tweaked the plugin code. we retrieve data from mongodb and pass it as json format to simplejson . – Depurative

Answer 3

There are 2 options.

1. Grafana Cloud: use the mongoDB official plugin from here. However it requires a Grafana enterprise license.

2. Grafana on-prem: develop a Grafana data source plugin, and a backend for loading and issuing aggregation queries to a mongoDB driver (because a driver can't be loaded into a web browser). More details below,

James Osgood implemented a solid on-prem solution, mongodb-grafana. It has a GUI plugin to configure mongo connection and collect queries, then a backend to execute the queries by running as a standalone app.

But the code was more than 6 years old; implemented in Angular.js instead of React.js which is mandatory for now; JSON objects for aggregation instead of Javascript objects, which won't support simple queries, such as {_id: ObjectId(xxxxxxxxxxx)}

Using the same on-prem architecture and based on James' implementation, I modernized the plugin in this repo. If you ever use MongoDB Compass for aggregations, you can basically copy/paste a pipeline Node.js export into the plugin.

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