AWS Names MongoDB ASEAN Global Software Partner of the Year

I’m thrilled to announce that during the recent AWS Partner Summit in Bangkok, MongoDB was recognized as the ASEAN Global Software Partner of the Year — for the second year in a row. This award highlights MongoDB's focus on driving innovation with AWS, and is a testament to the success of customers in the region building transformative, next-generation applications with MongoDB and AWS.

Based on merit, the AWS ASEAN Partner Awards were determined through a data-driven decision-making process, and “celebrated stellar achievements from partners that have shown remarkable success and achievement with AWS.”

“We are proud to announce and acknowledge the ASEAN AWS Partners of 2024 that are helping customers accelerate innovation, develop industry-focused solutions, and build resilience amid the current evolving economic climate,” said Kirsten Gilbertson, Partner Organization Leader, AWS ASEAN. “AWS Partners are the force multiplier to accelerate cloud transformation in the region and drive local economic growth. With our partners, AWS remains committed to helping customers address industry needs and drive positive business and societal outcomes by leveraging our secure global infrastructure for the latest generative—AI, analytics, and machine learning technologies.”

Demystifying AI and building next-gen apps with partners

To help organizations of all sizes make the most of AI, earlier this month, we announced the MongoDB AI Applications Program (MAAP). The new program is designed to help organizations rapidly build and deploy modern applications with generative AI technology at enterprise scale.

MAAP—which will be available starting in July—is being launched with industry-leading consultancies, cloud infrastructure, and generative AI framework providers, including AWS. Together, MongoDB and its MAAP partners will help customers solve business problems with AI by providing them with strategic advisory, professional services, and an integrated end-to-end technology stack.

In short, MongoDB and partners like AWS, Anthropic, and Cohere will help customers use generative AI to enhance productivity, revolutionize customer interactions, and drive industry advancements.

So it’s a real honor to receive the AWS ASEAN Global Software Partner of the Year two years running. This award validates the strength of our strategic collaboration with AWS, and the growing number of customers across industries who deploy mission-critical workloads on MongoDB Atlas running on AWS. We look forward to building on this momentum with AWS to help our customers unlock new possibilities by leveraging the power of data!

To learn more about the MongoDB AI Applications Program, visit the MAAP page. And, check out MongoDB’s Partner Ecosystem to learn more about the wide range of integrations and solutions to help you build and run modern applications.

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Leveraging Database Observability at MongoDB: Unlocking Performance Insights and Optimization Strategies

This post is the first in a three-part series on leveraging database observability. Observability has evolved into an essential information technology component, offering advanced insights into system performance beyond traditional monitoring. While monitoring aims to identify problems, observability helps understand and resolve them. Businesses prioritizing observability experience less downtime, leading to enhanced user experiences and improved ROI. Indeed, Splunk’s The State of Observability 2023 report quantified the financial impact of downtime—more than $150,000 per hour. Furthermore, observability leaders reported 33% fewer outages and achieved eight times better ROI than new adopters. Throughout this series, we'll define database observability at MongoDB, explore our suite of tools, delve into third-party integrations, and discuss everyday use cases. We will also establish a shared methodology and vocabulary for discussing observability at MongoDB and highlight the tools and features that have delivered value for our customers. Observability and MongoDB’s strategy Monitoring involves using tools to track real-time operations and alert teams to issues. As defined by Gartner, observability evolves monitoring into a process that provides deep insights into digital business applications, enhancing innovation and customer experience. The key difference is that monitoring detects the presence of issues, while observability gathers detailed information to understand and resolve them, which is crucial for modern IT infrastructure needs. Databases, in particular, play a critical role in this IT ecosystem, where performance and resilience directly impact business outcomes. This advancement is essential for DevOps, Database Administrators, and economic buyers responsible for these databases, as it enhances system reliability, encourages innovation, and supports financial objectives. Ultimately, observability provides comprehensive insights into system performance, health, and reliability by seamlessly integrating and contextualizing telemetry data. MongoDB leverages a unique observability strategy with out-of-the-box tools that automatically monitor and optimize customer databases. Explicitly designed for MongoDB environments, our system provides continuous feedback and answers critical questions—What is happening? Where is the issue? Why is it occurring? How do I fix it?—to enhance performance, increase productivity, and minimize downtime. Supporting MongoDB Atlas (our fully managed platform), Cloud Manager, and Ops Manager, as well as tailored monitoring solutions for the full range of developer data platform products (from enhanced search functionalities to app services and search nodes). Our approach meets the evolving needs of customer applications by: Leveraging MongoDB expertise: The MongoDB observability suite integrates efficiency and best practices from the beginning of the development cycle. As MongoDB platform experts, we use our deep knowledge to provide top-tier optimization insights. We apply our extensive understanding of our tools to ensure our customers benefit from a high-performing and resilient database. Offering streamlined metrics: We integrate our metrics seamlessly into our customers' central observability stacks and workflows. This creates a 'plug-and-play' experience that effortlessly aligns with popular monitoring systems like Datadog, New Relic, and Prometheus. Thus, it provides a unified view of customer application performance and deep insights into their database within a comprehensive dashboard. Breaking down MongoDB’s observability offerings Tailored database performance management MongoDB employs automated tools for comprehensive database performance management, focused on real-time optimization, strategic scaling, and best practices in schema design. Using out-of-the-box tools ensures high-performing, scalable, and cost-efficient database environments ideal for modern applications. Key features include: Performance Advisor : Provides index recommendations to improve read and write performance, significantly boosting overall efficiency. Schema Advisor : Supports flexible schema design and query execution analysis to enhance performance, scalability, and validation rules for schema compliance. Opt-in Autoscaling (only available in Atlas): Optimizes resource use, manages operational costs, ensures continuous availability, and adjusts resources based on demand, preventing downtimes. Performance Advisor in action Foundational monitoring for in-depth insights MongoDB provides foundational monitoring tools and out-of-the-box insights for optimal cluster health and performance after initial database setup. These tools both help reduce the burden of performing manual tasks while laying the groundwork for detailed and granular analysis of metrics and system performance aimed at enhancing query performance, reducing execution times, and lowering resource usage. These tools include: Monitoring Charts : These charts offer detailed metrics on hardware, database operations, replication status, sharded, and search/vector search with a fine-grained metric resolution to identify issues and track trends. Real-Time Performance Panel : This panel displays live network traffic, database operations, and hardware stats, helping to identify critical operations, evaluate query times, and monitor network load and throughput. Query Insights : The recently announced Namespace Insights provides users with collection-level latency statistics. At the same time, the enhanced cluster-centric Query Profiler gives an expanded view of query performance, significantly enhancing visibility and operational efficiency across the cluster. Learn more about both! Comprehensive alerting and seamless integrations MongoDB Atlas's sophisticated alerting system offers over 200 event types, providing teams with comprehensive control and visibility over their environments. Users can fine-tune their alerting strategy with customization options to fit their specific requirements. Additionally, MongoDB Atlas enhances team collaboration and ensures a unified view of application performance through seamless integrations with third-party tools like Slack, PagerDuty, and DataDog. These integrations simplify management tasks and leverage existing workflows for optimum operational effectiveness. What’s next? Enhanced database observability Observability is more than just a technical requirement—it's a strategic asset that enhances operational efficiency and economic viability. Through MongoDB's observability suite, organizations can optimize and scale system performance and fuel innovation. MongoDB is dedicated to continuously improving this suite to manage large-scale data better and meet demanding performance standards. Our commitment is reflected in our efforts to advance MongoDB's observability features, providing specific insights that deliver actionable intelligence tailored to our customers' needs. Look for the next post in this series, where we'll explore various tools and their integration, illustrated through common use cases. Sign up for MongoDB Atlas , our cloud database service, to see database observability in action. For more information, see Monitor Your Database Deployment .

May 30, 2024
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Leveraging BigQuery JSON for Optimized MongoDB Dataflow Pipelines

We're delighted to introduce a major enhancement to our Google Cloud Dataflow templates for MongoDB Atlas. By enabling direct support for JSON data types, users can now seamlessly integrate their MongoDB Atlas data into BigQuery, eliminating the need for complex data transformations. This streamlined approach not only saves users time and resources, but it also empowers customers to unlock the full potential of their data through advanced data analytics and machine learning. Figure 1: JSON feature for user options on Dataflow Templates Limitations without JSON support Traditionally, Dataflow pipelines designed to handle MongoDB Atlas data often necessitate the transformation of data into JSON strings or flattening complex structures to a single level of nesting before loading into BigQuery. Although this approach is viable, it can result in several drawbacks: Increased latency: The multiple data conversions required can lead to increased latency and can significantly slow down the overall pipeline execution time. Higher operational costs: The extra data transformations and storage requirements associated with this approach can lead to increased operational costs. Reduced query performance: Flattening complex document structures in JSON String format can impact query performance and make it difficult to analyze nested data. So, what’s new? BigQuery's Native JSON format addresses these challenges by enabling users to directly load nested JSON data from MongoDB Atlas into BigQuery without any intermediate conversions. This approach offers numerous benefits: Reduced operating costs: By eliminating the need for additional data transformations, users can significantly reduce operational expenses, including those associated with infrastructure, storage, and compute resources. Enhanced query performance: BigQuery's optimized storage and query engine is designed to efficiently process data in Native JSON format, resulting in significantly faster query execution times and improved overall query performance. Improved data flexibility: users can easily query and analyze complex data structures, including nested and hierarchical data, without the need for time-consuming and error-prone flattening or normalization processes. A significant advantage of this pipeline lies in its ability to directly leverage BigQuery's powerful JSON functions on the MongoDB data loaded into BigQuery. This eliminates the need for a complex and time-consuming data transformation process. The JSON data within BigQuery can be queried and analyzed using standard BQML queries. Whether you prefer a streamlined cloud-based approach or a hands-on, customizable solution, the Dataflow pipeline can be deployed either through the Google Cloud console or by running the code from the github repository . Enabling data-driven decision-making To summarize, Google’s Dataflow template provides a flexible solution for transferring data from MongoDB to BigQuery. It can process entire collections or capture incremental changes using MongoDB's Change Stream functionality. The pipeline's output format can be customized to suit your specific needs. Whether you prefer a raw JSON representation or a flattened schema with individual fields, you can easily configure it through the userOption parameter. Additionally, data transformation can be performed during template execution using User-Defined Functions (UDFs). By adopting BigQuery Native JSON format in your Dataflow pipelines, you can significantly enhance the efficiency, performance, and cost-effectiveness of your data processing workflows. This powerful combination empowers you to extract valuable insights from your data and make data-driven decisions. Follow the Google Documentation to learn how to set up the Dataflow templates for MongoDB Atlas and BigQuery. Get started with MongoDB Atlas on Google Marketplace . Learn more about MongoDB Atlas on Google Cloud on our product page .

December 17, 2024