For all the bashing I do on MongoDB, MMS is actually fairly useful.

The biggest advantage is when you submit JIRA tickets for Mongo issues and they have data to work with already.

I never like when the people who make my products are also the ones telling me if everything is ok. While the integration with 10gen is nice. I would rather a third party kept an eye on my infrastructure and told me when things were awry

Don't worry about signing up guys, they will only send you a random 10% of the promotional emails they send out. Or was it 90%? Who knows.

Even if you uncheck the promotional emails checkbox?

I think its a joke based on the story a while back about them dropping 90% of error messages randomly ( by design )

And getting it wrong by dropping 10% of error messages randomly.

the code was convoluted but correct. A lot of people got it wrong. The code was still shit, but correct shit.

No, it was incorrect. It was supposed to log 10% of the messages, instead it logged 90%.

This isn't new but I've used it successfully. They're a bit aggressive in their sales but hey, they are a database company after all :).