Manage Documents

Documents are individual records in a MongoDB collection and are the basic unit of data in MongoDB.

From the Documents tab, you can view, insert, modify, clone, and delete documents in your selected collection or view.

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Note

For query result sets larger than 1000 documents, Compass shows a sampling of the results. Otherwise, Compass shows the entire result set.

For details on sampling, see Sampling.

From the query bar, you can specify a query to filter the displayed documents. Click Options to specify query options.