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If you’ve already deployed an application using MongoDB, you might have heard about MongoDB Monitoring Service (MMS), a free and publicly available SaaS solution for monitoring your MongoDB deployment. On Thursday, February 9, 10gen’s Jared Rosoff will host a free webinar, Monitoring Your MongoDB Deployment. The webinar includes an MMS demo and will give MongoDB users the chance to ask questions about deploying and maintaining applications based on the NoSQL database.

MMS is a secure system which collects usage statistics and allows users to proactively monitor a MongoDB cluster via a simple Python agent. The data collected is sent securely to the centralized MMS servers for storage and presentation; at-a-glance charts and automated alerts make it easy to keep your application running smoothly.

MMS is custom-built, which means it takes into consideration the unique requirements of MongoDB. Unlike most off-the-shelf monitoring systems, which are built for generic systems management, MMS embodies the best practices for MongoDB by incorporating wisdom from 10gen engineers who have worked with hundreds of production deployments. Performance, resource utilization, availability, and response times are all tracked on the custom MMS interface.

If you’ve already purchased a support package from 10gen, MMS allows our team of engineers to provide superior customer support by proactively monitoring the health of your deployment. In some cases, 10gen engineers identify potential issues before they pose a serious threat. We understand the sensitive nature of MMS data and have extensive data access controls and audits in place.

Setup and configuration of MMS is simple—within minutes of installation, your devops and systems administration team can manage and optimize your MongoDB deployment, and derive valuable insights from key operational metrics. Just create an account at mms.10gen.com, then download and install the agent on your MongoDB cluster. Within a few minutes, your data will be visible on the web-based platform.

Learn more about MMS today or get started with MMS now.

We’re pleased to invite you to attend another free webinar, “Diagnostics and Performance Tuning.” The third in our webinar series for the year, this session will focus on tips and tricks to help keep your MongoDB deployment running smoothly, even as it scales up.

In this presentation, Kyle Banker will teach you how to read the omens to ensure that your MongoDB deployment is in optimal shape by providing a deeper understanding of memory usage, file sizes, flushing, journaling, among others. You’ll walk away from this presentation with ten concrete steps to take to prevent performance degradation before it occurs.

Presenter Kyle Banker, author of MongoDB in Action , works for 10Gen maintaining the MongoDB Ruby and C Drivers and supporting their respective developer communities.

You can also check out Kyle’s past presentations on the 10gen website, or sign up for MongoDB events announcements and other updates, and you could win one of 3 free copies of MongoDB in Action.

On January 18, MongoDB Tokyo took place at the Shinagawa Seaside Rakuten Tower, as nearly 200 guests, double the attendance of the 2011 event, arrived to see presentations on MongoDB from both 10gen engineers and Japanese users.

NEW: Follow @mongodb_jp, the new Twitter handle for the Japanese MongoDB community.

Representing 10gen, President Max Schireson and Senior Engineer Alvin Richards kicked off the event with a keynote speech and presentations on schema design and deployment architecture. External speakers included representatives from NHN, Cyberagent, Nifty, and Rakuten. Following the presentations, refreshments were provided by sponsor KK Ashisuto.

Presentation slideshows now available online include:

KVSの性能、RDBMSのインデックス、更にMapReduceを併せ持つAll-in-One NoSQL: MongoDB (Hiroaki Kubota)

事例：とある写真共有アプリでの MongoDB (Tetsuya Ohira)

mongo-hadoopで始める大規模ログ解析 〜低コストへの新たな道〜 (Daichi Morifuji)

ソーシャルゲームにおけるMongoDB適用事例 *(Masakazu Matsushita)

Special thanks from the 10gen team go out to Takahiro Inoue, who has helped to grow the MongoDB User Group in Japan to a staggering 600 members.

*slides also available in English