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Synopsis¶
The mongostat
utility provides a quick overview of the
status of a currently running mongod
or mongos
instance. mongostat
is functionally similar to the
UNIX/Linux file system utility vmstat
, but provides data regarding
mongod
and mongos
instances.
See also
For more information about monitoring MongoDB, see Monitoring for MongoDB.
For more background on various other MongoDB status outputs see:
For an additional utility that provides MongoDB metrics see mongotop.
Access Control Requirements¶
In order to connect to a mongod
that enforces authorization
with the --auth
option, specify the
--username
and --password
options, and the user specified must have the
serverStatus
privilege action on the cluster resources.
The built-in role clusterMonitor
provides this privilege as
well as other privileges. To create a role with just the privilege to
run mongostat
, see Create a Role to Run mongostat.
Options¶
-
mongostat
¶
-
--help
¶
Returns information on the options and use of mongostat.
-
--verbose
,
-v
¶
Increases the amount of internal reporting returned on standard output or in log files. Increase the verbosity with the
-v
form by including the option multiple times, (e.g.-vvvvv
.)
-
--version
¶
Returns the mongostat release number.
-
--host
<hostname><:port>
,
-h
<hostname><:port>
¶ Default: localhost:27017
Specifies a resolvable hostname for the
mongod
to which to connect. By default, the mongostat attempts to connect to a MongoDB instance running on the localhost on port number27017
.To connect to a replica set, you can specify the set member or members to report on, as in the following (see also the
--discover
flag):
-
--port
<port>
¶ Default: 27017
Specifies the TCP port on which the MongoDB instance listens for client connections.
-
--ipv6
¶
Enables IPv6 support and allows the mongostat to connect to the MongoDB instance using an IPv6 network. All MongoDB programs and processes disable IPv6 support by default.
-
--ssl
¶
New in version 2.6.
Enables connection to a
mongod
ormongos
that has TLS/SSL support enabled.The default distribution of MongoDB does not contain support for TLS/SSL. For more information on MongoDB and TLS/SSL, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL.
-
--sslCAFile
<filename>
¶ New in version 2.6.
Specifies the
.pem
file that contains the root certificate chain from the Certificate Authority. Specify the file name of the.pem
file using relative or absolute paths.The default distribution of MongoDB does not contain support for TLS/SSL. For more information on MongoDB and TLS/SSL, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL.
Warning
If the
mongo
shell or any other tool that connects tomongos
ormongod
is run without--sslCAFile
, it will not attempt to validate server certificates. This results in vulnerability to expiredmongod
andmongos
certificates as well as to foreign processes posing as validmongod
ormongos
instances. Ensure that you always specify the CA file against which server certificates should be validated in cases where intrusion is a possibility.
-
--sslPEMKeyFile
<filename>
¶ New in version 2.6.
Specifies the
.pem
file that contains both the TLS/SSL certificate and key. Specify the file name of the.pem
file using relative or absolute paths.This option is required when using the
--ssl
option to connect to amongod
ormongos
that hasCAFile
enabled withoutweakCertificateValidation
.The default distribution of MongoDB does not contain support for TLS/SSL. For more information on MongoDB and TLS/SSL, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL.
-
--sslPEMKeyPassword
<value>
¶ New in version 2.6.
Specifies the password to de-crypt the certificate-key file (i.e.
--sslPEMKeyFile
). Use the--sslPEMKeyPassword
option only if the certificate-key file is encrypted. In all cases, the mongostat will redact the password from all logging and reporting output.If the private key in the PEM file is encrypted and you do not specify the
--sslPEMKeyPassword
option, the mongostat will prompt for a passphrase. See SSL Certificate Passphrase.The default distribution of MongoDB does not contain support for TLS/SSL. For more information on MongoDB and TLS/SSL, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL.
-
--sslCRLFile
<filename>
¶ New in version 2.6.
Specifies the
.pem
file that contains the Certificate Revocation List. Specify the file name of the.pem
file using relative or absolute paths.The default distribution of MongoDB does not contain support for TLS/SSL. For more information on MongoDB and TLS/SSL, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL.
-
--sslAllowInvalidCertificates
¶
New in version 2.6.
Bypasses the validation checks for server certificates and allows the use of invalid certificates. When using the
allowInvalidCertificates
setting, MongoDB logs as a warning the use of the invalid certificate.The default distribution of MongoDB does not contain support for TLS/SSL. For more information on MongoDB and TLS/SSL, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL.
-
--sslFIPSMode
¶
New in version 2.6.
Directs the mongostat to use the FIPS mode of the installed OpenSSL library. Your system must have a FIPS compliant OpenSSL library to use the
--sslFIPSMode
option.The default distribution of MongoDB does not contain support for TLS/SSL. For more information on MongoDB and TLS/SSL, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL.
-
--username
<username>
,
-u
<username>
¶ Specifies a username with which to authenticate to a MongoDB database that uses authentication. Use in conjunction with the
--password
and--authenticationDatabase
options.
-
--password
<password>
,
-p
<password>
¶ Specifies a password with which to authenticate to a MongoDB database that uses authentication. Use in conjunction with the
--username
and--authenticationDatabase
options.If you do not specify an argument for
--password
, mongostat will prompt interactively for a password on the console.
-
--authenticationDatabase
<dbname>
¶ New in version 2.4.
Specifies the database that holds the user’s credentials.
--authenticationDatabase
is required formongod
andmongos
instances that use Authentication.
-
--authenticationMechanism
<name>
¶ Default: MONGODB-CR
New in version 2.4.
Changed in version 2.6: Added support for the
PLAIN
andMONGODB-X509
authentication mechanisms.Specifies the authentication mechanism the mongostat instance uses to authenticate to the
mongod
ormongos
.Value Description MONGODB-CR MongoDB challenge/response authentication. MONGODB-X509 MongoDB TLS/SSL certificate authentication. PLAIN External authentication using LDAP. You can also use PLAIN
for authenticating in-database users.PLAIN
transmits passwords in plain text. This mechanism is available only in MongoDB Enterprise.GSSAPI External authentication using Kerberos. This mechanism is available only in MongoDB Enterprise.
-
--gssapiServiceName
¶
New in version 2.6.
Specify the name of the service using GSSAPI/Kerberos. Only required if the service does not use the default name of
mongodb
.This option is available only in MongoDB Enterprise.
-
--gssapiHostName
¶
New in version 2.6.
Specify the hostname of a service using GSSAPI/Kerberos. Only required if the hostname of a machine does not match the hostname resolved by DNS.
This option is available only in MongoDB Enterprise.
-
--noheaders
¶
Disables the output of column or field names.
-
--rowcount
<number>
,
-n
<number>
¶ Controls the number of rows to output. Use in conjunction with the
sleeptime
argument to control the duration of amongostat
operation.Unless
--rowcount
is specified,mongostat
will return an infinite number of rows (e.g. value of0
.)
-
--http
¶
Configures
mongostat
to collect data using the HTTP interface rather than a raw database connection.
-
--discover
¶
Discovers and reports on statistics from all members of a replica set or sharded cluster. When connected to any member of a replica set,
--discover
all non-hidden members of the replica set. When connected to amongos
,mongostat
will return data from all shards in the cluster. If a replica set provides a shard in the sharded cluster,mongostat
will report on non-hidden members of that replica set.The
mongostat --host
option is not required but potentially useful in this case.Changed in version 2.6: When running with
--discover
,mongostat
now respects :option:–rowcount`.
-
<sleeptime>
¶
The final argument is the length of time, in seconds, that
mongostat
waits in between calls. By defaultmongostat
returns one call every second.mongostat
returns values that reflect the operations over a 1 second period. For values of<sleeptime>
greater than 1,mongostat
averages data to reflect average operations per second.
Fields¶
mongostat
returns values that reflect the operations over a
1 second period. When mongostat <sleeptime> has a value
greater than 1, mongostat
averages the statistics to reflect
average operations per second.
mongostat
outputs the following fields:
-
inserts
The number of objects inserted into the database per second. If followed by an asterisk (e.g.
*
), the datum refers to a replicated operation.
-
query
The number of query operations per second.
-
update
The number of update operations per second.
-
delete
The number of delete operations per second.
-
getmore
The number of get more (i.e. cursor batch) operations per second.
-
command
The number of commands per second. On slave and secondary systems,
mongostat
presents two values separated by a pipe character (e.g.|
), in the form oflocal|replicated
commands.
-
flushes
The number of fsync operations per second.
-
mapped
The total amount of data mapped in megabytes. This is the total data size at the time of the last
mongostat
call.
-
vsize
The amount of virtual memory in megabytes used by the process at the time of the last
mongostat
call.
-
non-mapped
Optional. The total amount of virtual memory excluding all mapped memory at the time of the last
mongostat
call.mongostat
only returns this value when started with the--all
option.
-
res
The amount of resident memory in megabytes used by the process at the time of the last
mongostat
call.
-
faults
Changed in version 2.1.
The number of page faults per second.
Before version 2.1 this value was only provided for MongoDB instances running on Linux hosts.
-
locked
The percent of time in a global write lock.
Changed in version 2.2: The
locked db
field replaces thelocked %
field to more appropriate data regarding the database specific locks in version 2.2.
-
locked db
New in version 2.2.
The percent of time in the per-database context-specific lock.
mongostat
will report the database that has spent the most time since the lastmongostat
call with a write lock.This value represents the amount of time that the listed database spent in a locked state combined with the time that the
mongod
spent in the global lock. Because of this, and the sampling method, you may see some values greater than 100%.
-
idx miss
The percent of index access attempts that required a page fault to load a btree node. This is a sampled value.
-
qr
The length of the queue of clients waiting to read data from the MongoDB instance.
-
qw
The length of the queue of clients waiting to write data from the MongoDB instance.
-
ar
The number of active clients performing read operations.
-
aw
The number of active clients performing write operations.
-
netIn
The amount of network traffic, in bytes, received by the MongoDB instance.
This includes traffic from
mongostat
itself.
-
netOut
The amount of network traffic, in bytes, sent by the MongoDB instance.
This includes traffic from
mongostat
itself.
-
conn
The total number of open connections.
-
set
The name, if applicable, of the replica set.
Usage¶
In the first example, mongostat
will return data every
second for 20 seconds. mongostat
collects data from the
mongod
instance running on the localhost interface on
port 27017. All of the following invocations produce identical
behavior:
In the next example, mongostat
returns data every 5 minutes
(or 300 seconds) for as long as the program runs. mongostat
collects data from the mongod
instance running on the
localhost interface on port 27017
. Both of the following
invocations produce identical behavior.
In the following example, mongostat
returns data every 5
minutes for an hour (12 times.) mongostat
collects data
from the mongod
instance running on the localhost interface
on port 27017. Both of the following invocations produce identical
behavior.
In many cases, using the --discover
will help provide a more complete snapshot of the state of an entire
group of machines. If a mongos
process connected to a
sharded cluster is running on port 27017
of the local
machine, you can use the following form to return statistics from all
members of the cluster: