[DOCS-8530] We need to better advise customers on how to deploy mongos Created: 08/Aug/16  Updated: 30/Oct/23

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual, Server
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: Server_Docs_20231030

Type: Task Priority: Major - P3
Reporter: Steven Hand Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Won't Do Votes: 0
Labels: None
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Days since reply: 1 year, 14 weeks, 2 days ago
Epic Link: DOCSP-1769

 Description   

We should advise decide where to deploy mongos and how many to deploy.

Customers are being advised in the mongos documentation:

The most common practice is to run mongos instances on the same systems as your application servers, but you can maintain mongos instances on the shards or on other dedicated resources.

However, if the customer has hundreds of application servers and/or are deploying mongos with their application server, we run into situations where there are too many mongos database servers running (and thereby causing problems) and/or there are thousands of documents in the config database related to mongos.



 Comments   
Comment by Education Bot [ 31/Oct/22 ]

Hello! This ticket has been closed due to inactivity. If you believe this ticket is still important, please reopen it and leave a comment to explain why. Thank you!

Comment by Steven Hand [ 08/Aug/16 ]

One of our customer's, Crittercism, posted a blog on why consolidating the mongos tier was important.

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