MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition

Chapter 16. Sharding Administration

A sharded cluster is the most difficult type of deployment to administer. This chapter gives advice on performing administrative tasks on all parts of a cluster, including:

• Inspecting what the cluster’s state is: who its members are, where data is held, and what connections are open

• How to add, remove, and change members of a cluster

• Administering data movement and manually moving data

Seeing the Current State

There are several helpers available to find out what data is where, what the shards are, and what the cluster is doing.

Getting a Summary with sh.status

sh.status() gives you an overview of your shards, databases, and sharded collections. If you have a small number of chunks, it will print a breakdown of which chunks are where as well. Otherwise it will simply give the collection’s shard key and how many chunks each shard has:

> sh.status()
--- Sharding Status --- 
  sharding version: { "_id" : 1, "version" : 3 }
  shards:
    { "_id" : "shard0000", "host" : "localhost:30000", 
      "tags" : [ "USPS" , "Apple" ] }
    {  "_id" : "shard0001",  "host" : "localhost:30001" }
    {  "_id" : "shard0002",  "host" : "localhost:30002",  "tags" : [ "Apple" ] }
  databases:
    {  "_id" : "admin",  "partitioned" : false,  "primary" : "config" }
    {  "_id" : "test",  "partitioned" : true,  "primary" : "shard0001" }
      test.foo
        shard key: { "x" : 1, "y" : 1 }
        chunks:
          shard0000    4
          shard0002    4
          shard0001    4
        { "x" : { $minKey : 1 }, "y" : { $minKey : 1 } } -->> 
            { "x" : 0, "y" : 10000 } on : shard0000
        { "x"