Get Measurements of a Database for a MongoDB Process

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Request Path Parameters
Request Query Parameters
Request Body Parameters
Response Elements
Measurement Values
Example Request
Example Response
Response Header
Response Body

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the same as your project ID. For existing groups, your group/project ID remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.

Get the measurements of the specified databases for an Atlas MongoDB process. An Atlas MongoDB process can be either a mongod or mongos.

Note

To calculate some metric series, Atlas takes the rate between every two adjacent points. For these metric series, the first data point has a null value because Atlas can't calculate a rate for the first data point given the query time range.

The Atlas Administration API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.

Resource

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

GET /groups/{GROUP-ID}/processes/{HOST}:{PORT}/databases/{DATABASE-NAME}/measurements

Request Path Parameters

Parameter	Type	Necessity	Description
GROUP-ID	string	Required	Unique 24-hexadecimal digit string that identifies the project that owns this Atlas MongoDB process.
HOST	string	Required	Hostname, FQDN, IPv4 address, or IPv6 address of the machine running the Atlas MongoDB process.
PORT	number	Required	IANA port to which the Atlas MongoDB process listens.


DATABASE-NAME	string	Required	Label that identifies the database from which you want to retrieve measurements.

Request Query Parameters

Name	Type	Necessity	Description	Default
pageNum	integer	Optional	Page number, starting with one, that Atlas returns of the total number of objects.	`1`
itemsPerPage	integer	Optional	Number of items that Atlas returns per page, up to a maximum of 500.	`100`
includeCount	boolean	Optional	Flag that indicates whether Atlas returns the totalCount parameter in the response body.	`true`
pretty	boolean	Optional	Flag that indicates whether Atlas returns the JSON response in the prettyprint format.	`false`
envelope	boolean	Optional	Flag that indicates whether Atlas wraps the response in an envelope. Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set `envelope=true` in the query. Endpoints that return a list of results use the results object as an envelope. Atlas adds the status parameter to the response body.	`false`

granularity

string

Required

Duration in ISO 8601 notation that specifies the interval between measurement data points.

Example

PT1M specifies 1-minute granularity.

Atlas supports the following subset of ISO 8601-formatted time periods:

PT10S
Note
Atlas supports a 10 second granularity only on M40 and larger clusters. To learn more, see Premium Monitoring Granularity.
PT1M
PT5M
PT1H
P1D

When you specify granularity, you must specify either period or start and end.

Atlas retrieves database metrics every 20 minutes by default. Results include data points with 20 minute intervals.

To learn more, see Review MongoDB Processes.

period

string

Required

Duration in ISO 8601 notation that specifies the length of time in the past to query. Mutually exclusive with start and end.

Example

To request the last 36 hours, specify: period=P1DT12H.

start

string

Required

Date and time that specifies when to start retrieving measurements. If you set start, you must set end. You can't set this parameter and period in the same request. This parameter expresses its value in the RFC 3339 timestamp format in UTC.

end

string

Required

Date and time that specifies when to stop retrieving measurements. If you set" end, you must set start. You can't set this parameter and" period in the same request. This parameter expresses its value in the RFC 3339 timestamp format in UTC.

string

Optional

Type of measurements this endpoint return. If you don't set m, the endpoint returns all measurements.

To specify multiple values for m, you must repeat the m parameter.

Example

../measurements?m=<measurement>&m=<measurement>&m=...

You must specify measurements that are valid for the host. Atlas returns an error if any specified measurements are invalid.

The Measurement Values section details these metrics.

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint doesn't use HTTP request body parameters.

Response Elements

Important

Limited Metrics for Free/Shared Tier Clusters

M0/M2/M5 clusters return a subset of the metrics documented.

If you set the query parameter to envelope=true, the resource wraps the response in a content object.

The HTTP response returns a JSON document that includes the following objects:

Name	Type	Description
end	string	Date and time that specifies when to stop retrieving measurements. If you set" end, you must set start. You can't set this parameter and" period in the same request. This parameter expresses its value in the RFC 3339 timestamp format in UTC.
granularity	string	Duration in ISO 8601 notation that specifies the interval between measurement data points.
groupId	string	Unique 24-hexadecimal digit string that identifies the project that owns the Atlas MongoDB process.
hostId	string	Hostname and port of the host running the Atlas MongoDB process.
links	array	One or more links to sub-resources and/or related resources. The relations between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification
measurements	array	List of measurements recorded and their data points.
measurements.dataPoints	array	Value of and metadata provided for one data point. If Atlas has no data point for a particular moment in time, the value field is set to null.
measurements.dataPoints.timestamp	string	Timestamp in ISO 8601 date and time format in UTC when this time interval that this data point represents began.
measurements.dataPoints.value	number	Value this data point provides.
measurements.name	string	Name of the measurement that this data point covers. The Measurement Values section details these metrics.
measurements.units	string	Magnitude by which Atlas quanitifies the measurement.
processId	string	Hostname and port of the machine running the Atlas MongoDB process.
start	string	Date and time that specifies when to start retrieving measurements. If you set start, you must set end. You can't set this parameter and period in the same request. This parameter expresses its value in the RFC 3339 timestamp format in UTC.


databaseName	string	Name of the database to which the measurements pertain.

Measurement Values


DATABASE_AVERAGE_OBJECT_SIZE DATABASE_COLLECTION_COUNT DATABASE_DATA_SIZE DATABASE_STORAGE_SIZE DATABASE_INDEX_SIZE DATABASE_INDEX_COUNT DATABASE_EXTENT_COUNT DATABASE_OBJECT_COUNT DATABASE_VIEW_COUNT	Measures the database's on-disk storage space, as collected from the MongoDB dbStats command.

Example Request

Replace the information in brackets {} with your own Atlas information to execute this example request:

curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
     --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
     --include \
     --request GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/processes/{HOST}:{PORT}/databases/{DATABASE-NAME}/measurements?granularity=PT1M&period=PT1M&pretty=true"

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}

Response Body

1 {
2    "databaseName":"{DATABASE-NAME}",
3    "granularity":"PT1M",
4    "groupId":"{PROJECT-ID}",
5    "hostId":"shard-00-00.mongodb.net:27017",
6    "links":[],
7    "measurements":[
8       {
9          "dataPoints":[
10 
11          ],
12          "name":"DATABASE_AVERAGE_OBJECT_SIZE",
13          "units":"BYTES"
14       }
15    ],
16    "processId":"shard-00-00.mongodb.net:27017"
17 }

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1	{
2	"databaseName":"{DATABASE-NAME}",
3	"granularity":"PT1M",
4	"groupId":"{PROJECT-ID}",
5	"hostId":"shard-00-00.mongodb.net:27017",
6	"links":[],
7	"measurements":[
8	{
9	"dataPoints":[
10
11	],
12	"name":"DATABASE_AVERAGE_OBJECT_SIZE",
13	"units":"BYTES"
14	}
15	],
16	"processId":"shard-00-00.mongodb.net:27017"
17	}