Mongo proxy

Fault injection

The Mongo proxy filter supports fault injection. See the v3 API reference for how to configure.

Statistics

Every configured MongoDB proxy filter has statistics rooted at mongo.<stat_prefix>. with the following statistics:

Name

Type

Description

decoding_error

Counter

Number of MongoDB protocol decoding errors

delay_injected

Counter

Number of times the delay is injected

op_get_more

Counter

Number of OP_GET_MORE messages

op_insert

Counter

Number of OP_INSERT messages

op_kill_cursors

Counter

Number of OP_KILL_CURSORS messages

op_query

Counter

Number of OP_QUERY messages

op_query_tailable_cursor

Counter

Number of OP_QUERY with tailable cursor flag set

op_query_no_cursor_timeout

Counter

Number of OP_QUERY with no cursor timeout flag set

op_query_await_data

Counter

Number of OP_QUERY with await data flag set

op_query_exhaust

Counter

Number of OP_QUERY with exhaust flag set

op_query_no_max_time

Counter

Number of queries without maxTimeMS set

op_query_scatter_get

Counter

Number of scatter get queries

op_query_multi_get

Counter

Number of multi get queries

op_query_active

Gauge

Number of active queries

op_reply

Counter

Number of OP_REPLY messages

op_reply_cursor_not_found

Counter

Number of OP_REPLY with cursor not found flag set

op_reply_query_failure

Counter

Number of OP_REPLY with query failure flag set

op_reply_valid_cursor

Counter

Number of OP_REPLY with a valid cursor

cx_destroy_local_with_active_rq

Counter

Connections destroyed locally with an active query

cx_destroy_remote_with_active_rq

Counter

Connections destroyed remotely with an active query

cx_drain_close

Counter

Connections gracefully closed on reply boundaries during server drain

Scatter gets

Envoy defines a scatter get as any query that does not use an _id field as a query parameter. Envoy looks in both the top level document as well as within a $query field for _id.

Multi gets

Envoy defines a multi get as any query that does use an _id field as a query parameter, but where _id is not a scalar value (i.e., a document or an array). Envoy looks in both the top level document as well as within a $query field for _id.

$comment parsing

If a query has a top level $comment field (typically in addition to a $query field), Envoy will parse it as JSON and look for the following structure:

{
  "callingFunction": "..."
}
callingFunction

(required, string) the function that made the query. If available, the function will be used in callsite query statistics.

Per command statistics

The MongoDB filter will gather statistics for commands in the mongo.<stat_prefix>.cmd.<cmd>. namespace.

Name

Type

Description

total

Counter

Number of commands

reply_num_docs

Histogram

Number of documents in reply

reply_size

Histogram

Size of the reply in bytes

reply_time_ms

Histogram

Command time in milliseconds

Per collection query statistics

The MongoDB filter will gather statistics for queries in the mongo.<stat_prefix>.collection.<collection>.query. namespace.

Name

Type

Description

total

Counter

Number of queries

scatter_get

Counter

Number of scatter gets

multi_get

Counter

Number of multi gets

reply_num_docs

Histogram

Number of documents in reply

reply_size

Histogram

Size of the reply in bytes

reply_time_ms

Histogram

Query time in milliseconds

Per collection and callsite query statistics

If the application provides the calling function in the $comment field, Envoy will generate per callsite statistics. These statistics match the per collection statistics but are found in the mongo.<stat_prefix>.collection.<collection>.callsite.<callsite>.query. namespace.

Runtime

The Mongo proxy filter supports the following runtime settings:

mongo.connection_logging_enabled

% of connections that will have logging enabled. Defaults to 100. This allows only a % of connections to have logging, but for all messages on those connections to be logged.

mongo.proxy_enabled

% of connections that will have the proxy enabled at all. Defaults to 100.

mongo.logging_enabled

% of messages that will be logged. Defaults to 100. If less than 100, queries may be logged without replies, etc.

mongo.mongo.drain_close_enabled

% of connections that will be drain closed if the server is draining and would otherwise attempt a drain close. Defaults to 100.

mongo.fault.fixed_delay.percent

Probability of an eligible MongoDB operation to be affected by the injected fault when there is no active fault. Defaults to the percentage specified in the config.

mongo.fault.fixed_delay.duration_ms

The delay duration in milliseconds. Defaults to the duration_ms specified in the config.

Access log format

The access log format is not customizable and has the following layout:

{"time": "...", "message": "...", "upstream_host": "..."}
time

System time that complete message was parsed, including milliseconds.

message

Textual expansion of the message. Whether the message is fully expanded depends on the context. Sometimes summary data is presented to avoid extremely large log sizes.

upstream_host

The upstream host that the connection is proxying to, if available. This is populated if the filter is used along with the TCP proxy filter.

Dynamic Metadata

The Mongo filter emits the following dynamic metadata when enabled via the configuration. This dynamic metadata is available as key-value pairs where the key represents the database and the collection being accessed, and the value is a list of operations performed on the collection.

Name

Type

Description

key

string

The resource name in db.collection format.

value

array

A list of strings representing the operations executed on the resource (insert/update/query/delete).