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Supercharging FerretDB Performance with Coroot: A Success Story

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Anastasiia Giles

At Coroot, we’re passionate about providing developers with the tools they need to build and maintain high-performing applications. Recently, we had the opportunity to help a team using FerretDB, the open-source document database offering MongoDB compatibility with a PostgreSQL backend, significantly improve their monitoring and performance. This is their story.

The Challenge: Monitoring a Complex Stack

The FerretDB team faced a common challenge: effectively monitoring a multi-layered system. Their setup involved FerretDB, PostgreSQL, and various supporting services. Traditional monitoring methods, like manually configuring Prometheus and Grafana, proved time-consuming and difficult to maintain. They needed a solution that provided deep visibility into all components without requiring extensive manual configuration.

The Coroot Solution: Effortless Observability

That’s where Coroot came in. By deploying Coroot, the FerretDB team gained immediate access to a comprehensive observability platform that leverages eBPF technology. Here’s how Coroot addressed their challenges:
Coroot's impact on FerretDB
  • Automatic Service Discovery: Coroot automatically discovered all services within their environment, including FerretDB, PostgreSQL, and other dependencies. This eliminated the need for manual instrumentation and configuration.
  • Deep System Insights: Using eBPF, Coroot provided granular visibility into system behavior, going beyond basic metrics like CPU and memory usage to reveal detailed latency breakdowns, resource allocation per process, and network performance.
Deep system insights
  • Pre-built Application Dashboards: Coroot automatically generated dashboards tailored to their applications, providing a holistic view of system health and performance without requiring manual dashboard creation.
Pre-Built App Dashboards
  • Distributed Tracing for Rapid Troubleshooting: Coroot’s distributed tracing capabilities allowed the FerretDB team to quickly identify performance bottlenecks and trace issues across their entire stack. This dramatically reduced debugging time.
  • Continuous Profiling for Performance Optimization: With continuous profiling, the team could analyze CPU and memory usage down to the line of code, enabling them to pinpoint performance bottlenecks and optimize resource allocation.

The Results: Improved Performance and Reduced Overhead

By implementing Coroot, the FerretDB team achieved significant improvements:

  • Reduced Monitoring Overhead: The automated setup and pre-built dashboards freed up valuable engineering time, allowing them to focus on development rather than maintenance.
  • Proactive Issue Detection: Coroot’s real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities enabled the team to identify and address potential issues before they impacted users.
  • Faster Debugging and Resolution: Distributed tracing and continuous profiling drastically reduced the time spent troubleshooting performance bottlenecks and errors.
  • Optimized System Performance: By using Coroot’s insights to fine-tune resource allocation and optimize their application, the FerretDB team improved overall system performance and stability.
Enhancing FerretDb Performance with Coroot

This success story highlights the power of Coroot for monitoring complex database deployments like FerretDB. Here are some key takeaways for our users:

  • Coroot’s automatic service discovery and pre-built dashboards significantly reduce monitoring setup and maintenance overhead.
  • eBPF technology provides unparalleled granular insights into system behavior, enabling proactive problem solving and rapid debugging.
  • Distributed tracing and continuous profiling empower developers to optimize application performance and resource utilization.

Ready to Supercharge Your Application’s Performance?

If you’re looking for a powerful and easy-to-use observability platform, try Coroot Community Edition for free, or start a free trial of Coroot Enterprise Edition for advanced capabilities.

We’re committed to helping developers build and maintain high-performing applications. This FerretDB story is just one example of how Coroot can make a real difference.

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