MongoDB Lens

The MongoDB Lens helps you identify and track your MongoDB cost and usage and make decisions about how and when to optimize costs, monitor performance, and more.

Required permission

To access the MongoDB Lens, your DoiT account needs the Cloud Analytics User permission.

MongoDB Lens dashboard

The MongoDB Lens dashboard consists of some preset report widgets that highlight various aspects of your MongoDB spend and usage. It's automatically populated when your MongoDB data has been imported into the DoiT console. See Connect MongoDB.

To access the MongoDB Lens dashboard, select Dashboard from the top navigation bar, and then select MongoDB Lens under Preset dashboards.

Organization costs

Shows the total MongoDB expenditure for the last 6 months for your organization. This is useful for understanding trends, allowing you to quickly identify increases, decreases, or spikes in consumption over time.

Report configuration:

• Metric: Cost
• Time Range: Last 6 months w. current
• Time Interval: Month
• Filters:
  • Provider equals MongoDB
  • Publisher equals MongoDB
• Group by:
  • Organization name
  • Project/account ID

Total usage

Shows your total monthly usage for the last 6 months. This is useful for understanding trends and patterns that are not visible in real-time monitoring, leading to improvements in performance, cost, and overall system health.

Report configuration:

• Metric: Usage
• Time Range: Last 6 months w. current
• Time Interval: Month
• Filters:
  • Provider equals MongoDB
  • Publisher equals MongoDB
• Group by:
  • Billing Account

Project costs

Shows your monthly project costs for the last 6 months. This is useful for strategic planning, identifying trends, and making optimizations.

Report configuration:

• Metric: Cost
• Time Range: Last 6 months w. current
• Time Interval: Month
• Filters:
  • Provider equals MongoDB
  • Publisher equals MongoDB
• Group by: Project/account name

Project costs

Shows your project costs for the current month. This provides immediate, actionable insights that allow you to make timely decisions, prevent overspending, and ensure your resources are being used efficiently.

Report configuration:

• Metric: Cost
• Time Range: Current month
• Time Interval: Month
• Filters:
  • Provider equals MongoDB
  • Publisher equals MongoDB
• Group by: Project/account name

SKU costs

Shows your SKU costs for the current month. This report provides a granular breakdown of costs by SKU so you can see the resources that are contributing most to your bill. This report enables you to spot suddent, unexplained spikes in a specific SKU, enabling you to make adjustments quickly.

Report configuration:

• Metric: Cost
• Time Range: w. current
• Time Interval: Month
• Filters:
  • Provider equals MongoDB
  • Publisher equals MongoDB
• Group by: SKU