Monitor Real-Time Performance¶

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Enable or Disable the Real-Time Performance Panel

Access the Real-Time Performance Panel
Graph View
Table View

Only available on M10+ clusters and serverless instances

The Real-Time Performance Panel (RTPP) monitors and displays current network traffic, database operations on the machines hosting MongoDB in your clusters, and hardware statistics about the hosts. Use RTPP to visually identify relevant database operations, evaluate query execution times and the ratio of documents scanned to documents returned, monitor network load and throughput, and discover potential replication lag on secondary members of replica sets.

Enable or Disable the Real-Time Performance Panel¶

Important

Required Privileges

To enable or disable Real-Time Performance Panel for a project, you must have the Project Owner role for the project.

Real-Time Performance Panel is enabled by default. To disable or enable the Real-Time Performance Panel for a project:

Click Settings.¶

Toggle the button next to Real-Time Performance Panel.¶

Access the Real-Time Performance Panel¶

To view the Real-Time Performance Panel:

Click Database.¶

Click the cluster whose current operations you want to evaluate.¶

If the replica set resides in a sharded cluster, first click the sharded cluster containing the replica set.

Click the member of the replica set that you want to view.¶

Click Real Time.¶

Atlas displays the data as a graph. Click Table to view the data as a table.

(Optional) Click Pause to stop RTPP from displaying incoming data. Click Play to resume.¶

Graph View¶

Chart/Location	Description
Connections, Network In, Network Out (Top of panel)	Displays the number of current connections to the machine hosting MongoDB and the number of inbound and outbound bytes as reported by `mongostat`.
CPU, Disk Util, and Sys Mem (Top of panel)	Displays the currently used percentage of CPU and disk capacity and the total physical memory usage, excluding buffers and swap space, of the machine hosting MongoDB.
Operations	Displays the number of operations as reported by `mongostat`.
Query Execution Times	Displays latency statistics for current read requests, write requests, and other database commands. Available in MongoDB 3.6 or later. See `opLatencies` at serverStatus for more information.
Query Targeting	Displays the ratio of documents and objects scanned to documents and objects returned in current queries. These statistics are useful in determining if and how a query uses an index. See Analyze Query Performance for more information.
Reads & Writes	Displays the number of active reads, queued reads, active writes, and queued writes as reported by `mongostat`.
Replication Lag	Available only for secondary members of a replica set. Displays the time required to replicate operations from the primary to the secondary members of a replica set. See Replica Set Secondary Members for more information.
Hottest Collections	Displays the collections with the most operations as reported by `mongotop`. For each hot collection, the table also displays the Utilization Percent for the collection. Utilization Percent is calculated from the read and write times as reported by `mongotop` during a sample period. Specifically, the Utilization Percent is the percentage (rounded to the nearest 0.1%) of the read and write times for a collection relative to the read and write times for all collections in the deployment during the sample period. If no read and write operation occur during this period, the Utilization Percent will be 0%. The hottest collections correspond to the most current time displayed in the charts. That is, if the display is running (i.e. not paused), the collections correspond to the hottest collections at the current timestamp. If the display is paused, the collections correspond to the hottest collections at the paused time.
Slowest Operations	Displays the slowest operations as reported by db.currentOp(). The operations correspond to the most current time displayed in the charts. That is, if the display is running (i.e. not paused), the operations correspond to the slowest operations at the current timestamp. If the display is paused, the operations correspond to the slowest operations at the paused time. Select one of the operations to open the Operation Details panel, where you can terminate the selected operation using the Kill Op button. The Kill Op button issues the db.killOp() method on the selected operation. Important You can only terminate operations from RTPP if Data Explorer is enabled for your project.

Read Exact Metrics from Graph View¶

If you pause the Graph view of the Real-Time Performance Panel, you can hover over a line graph to see its exact value, along with the slowest operations and hottest collections, at a given moment in time.

Pausing the Performance Panel does not affect the collection of the underlying data. When you resume the Graph view, the line graphs restart from an empty display.

Table View¶

Click to hide or display fields from the table.

Fields	Description
Commands Queries Updates Deletes Inserts GetMores	Displays the number of the specified operations (commands, queries, etc.) as reported by `mongostat`.
Time / Read Time / Write Time / Command	Displays latency statistics for current read requests, write requests, and other database commands. To learn more, see `opLatencies` in serverStatus.
Scanned / Returned Scanned Objects / Returned	Displays the ratio of documents and objects scanned to documents and objects returned in current queries. These statistics are useful in determining if and how a query uses an index. To learn more, see Analyze Query Performance.
Active Readers Active Writers Queued Readers Queued Writers	Displays the number of active reads, queued reads, active writes, and queued writes as reported by `mongostat`.
Lag Time	Available only for secondary members of a replica set. Displays the time required to replicate operations from the primary to the secondary members of a replica set. To learn more, see Replica Set Secondary Members.
CPU Disk Util Sys Mem	Displays the currently used percentage of CPU and disk capacity and the total physical memory usage, excluding buffers and swap space, of the machine hosting MongoDB.
Connections Bytes In Bytes Out	Displays the number of current connections to the machine hosting MongoDB and the number of inbound and outbound bytes as reported by `mongostat`.

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