Topical Takes

Short, opinionated posts on eBPF, Linux internals, and the tools we all run in production.

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August 31, 2026

How to Find Slow MongoDB Queries on Linux in 2026: The Slow Query Is Often Two Hundred Fast Ones

A slow-query log grades one query at a time, so an endpoint that issues two hundred fast queries produces an empty profiler and a 900ms response. Covers query shapes and N+1 detection, the profiler's 100ms threshold, Atlas Query Profiler, explain, mongotail, and reading the commands at the socket with mongosnoop and yeet.

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August 31, 2026

How to Find Which Process Is Querying MongoDB on Linux in 2026: The Server Only Knows What the Client Told It

MongoDB's record of who connected is a handshake document the client wrote itself, carrying an address that any Docker NAT or Kubernetes node already rewrote. Covers appName, client metadata, currentOp, ss and lsof for socket ownership, and reading the sending pid off the socket with mongosnoop and yeet.

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