What type of data does the MongoDB Atlas app ingest?

The MongoDB Atlas app collects data from the Observe poller for MongoDB Atlas. The below data is periodically collected:

Metadata about your organization, projects, clusters, and processes.
All available metrics from MongoDB Atlas API.

The following sections describe how to ingest data, install, and configure the collectors. For more about exploring this data, see View MongoDB Atlas data in Observe.

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The MongoDB Atlas app currently does not support serverless Instances.

Install the app

Use the instructions in Observe apps to find and install the MongoDB Atlas app.

Configure the MongoDB Atlas Poller

Pollers periodically request data from the MongoDB Atlas Administration API, allowing ingestion of existing details without relying on a triggering event. The poller ingests data to supply these sources:

Project Dataset
Cluster Dataset
Process Dataset
Organization Dataset
Database User Dataset
Org User Dataset
Home Dashboard
Monitoring Dashboard
Performance Dashboard

To allow the poller to access the Atlas Administration API, create an Organization API Key

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To perform any of the following actions, you must have Organization Owner access to Atlas. See Atlas User Roles in the MongoDB Atlas documentation for more information.

Log into MongoDB as the user you want to generate the API keys.
Go to the Organization Access Manager page for your organization and click Create API Key.

Enter the API Key Information.

Enter a Description
In the Organization Permissions, check Organization Read Only:

Click Next and record both the Public Key and the Private Key
Click Done and ensure the keys are present in the Organization Access Manager home page.

In Observe, configure the MongoDB Atlas Poller to collect and ingest data:

In the MongoDB Atlas app, go to the Connections tab.
Under Data connection requirements, in the Poll updates from the MongoDB Atlas API section, click Get Started.
In the Create poller dialog, configure the following settings:
- For Public Key, enter the public key obtained from Organization Access Manager.
- For Private Key, enter the private key obtained from Organization Access Manager.

You have now configured the MongoDB Atlas app and can send your MongoDB Atlas data to Observe.

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Certain MongoDB Atlas resources limit how many requests they can process per minute. MongoDB Atlas limits these requests to 100 requests per minute per project. If this rate limit is exceeded, the poller may return a 429 HTTP status code.
Contact MongoDB to increase this rate limit, if needed. See Atlas docs for more information.