MongoDB Sharding Visualizer

MongoDB

#Releases

We’re happy to share with you the initial release of the MongoDB sharding visualizer. The visualizer is a Google Chrome app that provides an intuitive overview of a sharded cluster. This project provides an alternative to the printShardingStatus() utility function available in the MongoDB shell.

Features

The visualizer provides two different perspectives of the cluster’s state.

The collections view is a grid where each rectangle represents a collection. Each rectangle’s area is proportional to that collection’s size relative to the other collections in the cluster. Inside each rectangle a pie chart shows the distribution of that collection’s chunks over all the shards in the cluster.

The shards view is a bar graph where each bar represents a shard and each segment inside the shard represents a collection. The size of each segment is relative to the other collections on that shard.

Additionally, the slider underneath each view allows rewinding the state of the cluster. select and view the state of the cluster at a specific time.

Installation

To install the plugin, download and unzip the source code from 10gen labs. In Google Chrome, go to Preferences > Extensions, enable Developer Mode, and click “Load unpacked extension…”. When prompted, select the “plugin” directory. Then, open a new tab in Chrome and navigate to the Apps page and launch the visualizer.

Feedback

We very much look forward to hearing feedback and encourage everyone to look at the source code which is available https://github.com/10gen-labs/shard-viz .