[crankylinuxuser]

Yep. Thats only because Graylog requires it. We don't put any real data in Mongo. That'd just be silly.

I'd put SNMP telemetry data in Mongo, only for the fact that recording that can be somewhat lossy. Plainly, I just don't trust Mongo with consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.

And because Mongo's backup facilities suck (requires taking the DB into readonly, or accepting no time consistency egads), the only good way to do a backup is to put the DB on LVM, and making a LVM snapshot.