MongoDB Server Parameters

Authentication Parameters

authenticationMechanisms

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Specifies the list of authentication mechanisms the server accepts. Set this to one or more of the following values. If you specify multiple values, use a comma-separated list and no spaces. For descriptions of the authentication mechanisms, see Authentication.

Value	Description
SCRAM-SHA-1	RFC 5802 standard Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism using the SHA-1 hash function.
SCRAM-SHA-256	RFC 7677 standard Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism using the SHA-256 hash function.
MONGODB-X509	MongoDB TLS/SSL certificate authentication.
GSSAPI (Kerberos)	External authentication using Kerberos. This mechanism is available only in MongoDB Enterprise.
PLAIN (LDAP SASL)	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.

You can only set authenticationMechanisms during start-up.

For example, to specify both PLAIN and SCRAM-SHA-256 as the authentication mechanisms, use the following command:

mongod --setParameter authenticationMechanisms=PLAIN,SCRAM-SHA-256 --auth

awsSTSRetryCount

Changed in version 7.0: (Also starting in 6.0.7, 5.0.18, 4.4.22)

In previous versions, AWS IAM authentication retried only when the server returned an HTTP 500 error.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 2

For MongoDB deployments using AWS IAM credentials or AWS IAM environment variables.

Maximim number of AWS IAM authentication retries after a connection failure.

The following example sets awsSTSRetryCount to 15 retries:

mongod --setParameter awsSTSRetryCount=15

Alternatively, the following examples uses the setParameter command within mongo shell:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, awsSTSRetryCount: 15 } )

clusterAuthMode

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Set the clusterAuthMode to either sendX509 or x509. Useful during rolling upgrade to use x509 for membership authentication to minimize downtime.

For more information about TLS/SSL and MongoDB, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL and TLS/SSL Configuration for Clients .

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, clusterAuthMode: "sendX509" } )

enableLocalhostAuthBypass

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Specify 0 or false to disable localhost authentication bypass. Enabled by default.

enableLocalhostAuthBypass is not available using setParameter database command. Use the setParameter option in the configuration file or the --setParameter option on the command line.

See Localhost Exception for more information.

KeysRotationIntervalSec

New in version 3.6.

Default: 7776000 seconds (90 days)

Specifies the number of seconds for which an HMAC signing key is valid before rotating to the next one. This parameter is intended primarily to facilitate authentication testing.

You can only set KeysRotationIntervalSec during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

ldapForceMultiThreadMode

New in version 4.2.

Default: false

Enables the performance of concurrent LDAP operations.

Note

Only if you are certain that your instance of libldap is safe to use in this mode, enable this flag. You may experience crashes of the MongoDB process if the libldap version you are using is not thread safe.

You must use ldapForceMultiThreadMode to use LDAP connection pool. To enable LDAP connection pool, set ldapForceMultiThreadMode and ldapUseConnectionPool to true.

Tip

If you have any concerns regarding your MongoDB version, OS version or libldap version, please contact MongoDB Support.

ldapQueryPassword

New in version 4.4.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: string

The password used to bind to an LDAP server. You must use ldapQueryUser with this parameter.

If not set, mongod or mongos does not attempt to bind to the LDAP server.

ldapQueryUser

New in version 4.4.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: string

The user that binds to an LDAP server. You must use ldapQueryPassword with this parameter.

If not set, mongod or mongos does not attempt to bind to the LDAP server.

ldapRetryCount

New in version 6.1.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 0

For MongoDB deployments using LDAP Authorization.

Number of operation retries by the server LDAP manager after a network error.

For example, the following sets ldapRetryCount to 3 seconds:

mongod --ldapRetryCount=3

Or, if using the setParameter command within mongo:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ldapRetryCount: 3 } )

ldapUserCacheInvalidationInterval

For use with MongoDB deployments using LDAP Authorization. Available for mongod instances only.

The interval (in seconds) that the mongod instance waits between external user cache flushes. After MongoDB flushes the external user cache, MongoDB reacquires authorization data from the LDAP server the next time an LDAP-authorized user issues an operation.

Increasing the value specified increases the amount of time MongoDB and the LDAP server can be out of sync, but reduces the load on the LDAP server. Conversely, decreasing the value specified decreases the time MongoDB and the LDAP server can be out of sync while increasing the load on the LDAP server.

Defaults to 30 seconds.

ldapUseConnectionPool

Specifies whether MongoDB should use connection pooling when connecting to the LDAP server for authentication/authorization.

MongoDB uses the following default values:

• true on Windows.

• true on Linux where MongoDB Enterprise binaries are linked against libldap_r.

• false on Linux where MongoDB Enterprise binaries are linked against libldap.

You can only set ldapUseConnectionPool during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolUseLatencyForHostPriority

New in version 4.2.1.

Default: true

A boolean that determines whether the LDAP connection pool (see ldapUseConnectionPool) should use latency of the LDAP servers to determine the connection order (from lowest latency to highest).

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolUseLatencyForHostPriority during start-up, and cannot change this setting during runtime with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolMinimumConnectionsPerHost

New in version 4.2.1.

Default: 1

The minimum number of connections to keep open to each LDAP server.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolMinimumConnectionsPerHost during start-up, and cannot change this setting during runtime with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolMaximumConnectionsPerHost

New in version 4.2.1.

Changed starting in MongoDB version 4.4.15 Changed default value to 2147483647. In previous versions, the default is unset.

Default: 2147483647

The maximum number of connections to keep open to each LDAP server.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolMaximumConnectionsPerHost during start-up, and cannot change this setting during runtime with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolMaximumConnectionsInProgressPerHost

New in version 4.2.1.

Changed starting in MongoDB version 4.4.15 Changed default value to 2. In previous versions, the default is unset.

Default: 2

The maximum number of in-progress connect operations to each LDAP server.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolMaximumConnectionsInProgressPerHost during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolHostRefreshIntervalMillis

New in version 4.2.1.

Default: 60000

The number of milliseconds in-between health checks of the pooled LDAP connections.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolHostRefreshIntervalMillis during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolIdleHostTimeoutSecs

New in version 4.2.1.

Default: 300

The maximum number of seconds that the pooled connections to an LDAP server can remain idle before being closed.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolIdleHostTimeoutSecs during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

maxValidateMemoryUsageMB

New in version 4.4.7.

Default: 200

The maximum memory usage limit in megabytes for the validate command. If the limit is exceeded, validate returns as many results as possible and warns that not all corruption might be reported because of the limit.

You can set maxValidateMemoryUsageMB during startup, and can change this setting using the setParameter database command.

ocspEnabled

New in version 4.4: Available on Linux and macOS.

Default: true

The flag that enables or disables OCSP.

You can only set ocspEnabled during startup in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. For example, the following disables OCSP:

mongod --setParameter ocspEnabled=false ...

Tip

• ocspStaplingRefreshPeriodSecs

• tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs

• tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs

ocspStaplingRefreshPeriodSecs

New in version 4.4: Available on Linux.

The number of seconds to wait before refreshing the stapled OCSP status response. Specify a number greater than or equal to 1.

You can only set ocspStaplingRefreshPeriodSecs during startup in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. For example, the following sets the parameter to 3600 seconds:

mongod --setParameter ocspStaplingRefreshPeriodSecs=3600 ...

Renamed from ocspValidationRefreshPeriodSecs to ocspStaplingRefreshPeriodSecs in MongoDB 4.4.1.

Tip

• ocspEnabled

• tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs

• tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs

opensslCipherConfig

New in version 3.6.

With the use of native TLS/SSL libraries, the parameter opensslCipherConfig is supported for Linux/BSD and no longer supported in Windows and macOS. See TLS/SSL.

Specify the cipher string for OpenSSL when using TLS/SSL encryption. For a list of cipher strings, see https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man1/ciphers.html

You can only set opensslCipherConfig during start-up, and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

For version 4.2 and greater, the use of TLS options is preferred over SSL options. The TLS options have the same functionality as the SSL options.

mongod --setParameter opensslCipherConfig='HIGH:!EXPORT:!aNULL@STRENGTH' --tlsMode requireTLS --tlsCertificateKeyFile Certs/server.pem

opensslDiffieHellmanParameters

Available on Linux only

Specify the path to the PEM file that contains the OpenSSL Diffie-Hellman parameters. Specifying the OpenSSL Diffie-Hellman parameters enables support for Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) cipher suites during TLS/SSL encryption.

Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) cipher suites (and Ephemeral Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDHE) cipher suites) provide Forward Secrecy. Forward Secrecy cipher suites create an ephemeral session key that is protected by the server's private key but never transmitted. This ensures that even if a server's private key is compromised, you cannot decrypt past sessions with the compromised key.

Note

Starting in MongoDB 4.2, if opensslDiffieHellmanParameters is unset but ECDHE is enabled, MongoDB enables DHE using ffdhe3072 Diffie-Hellman parameter, as defined in RFC-7919#appendix-A.2. The ffdhe3072 is a strong parameter (i.e. size is greater than 1024). Strong parameters are not supported with Java 6 and 7 unless extended support has been purchased from Oracle.

You can only set opensslDiffieHellmanParameters during startup, and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

If for performance reasons, you need to disable support for DHE cipher suites, use the opensslCipherConfig parameter:

mongod --setParameter opensslCipherConfig='HIGH:!EXPORT:!aNULL:!DHE:!kDHE@STRENGTH' ...

saslauthdPath

Note

Available only in MongoDB Enterprise (except MongoDB Enterprise for Windows).

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Specify the path to the Unix Domain Socket of the saslauthd instance to use for proxy authentication.

saslHostName

Available for both mongod and mongos.

saslHostName overrides MongoDB's default hostname detection for the purpose of configuring SASL and Kerberos authentication.

saslHostName does not affect the hostname of the mongod or mongos instance for any purpose beyond the configuration of SASL and Kerberos.

You can only set saslHostName during start-up, and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

Note

saslHostName supports Kerberos authentication and is only included in MongoDB Enterprise. For more information, see the following:

• Linux: Configure MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication on Linux

• Windows: Configure MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication on Windows

saslServiceName

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Allows users to override the default Kerberos service name component of the Kerberos principal name, on a per-instance basis. If unspecified, the default value is mongodb.

MongoDB only permits setting saslServiceName at startup. The setParameter command can not change this setting.

saslServiceName is only available in MongoDB Enterprise.

Important

Ensure that your driver supports alternate service names.

scramIterationCount

Default: 10000

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Changes the number of hashing iterations used for all new SCRAM-SHA-1 passwords. More iterations increase the amount of time required for clients to authenticate to MongoDB, but makes passwords less susceptible to brute-force attempts. The default value is ideal for most common use cases and requirements.

If you modify this value, it does not change the iteration count for existing passwords. The scramIterationCount value must be 5000 or greater.

For example, the following sets the scramIterationCount to 12000.

mongod --setParameter scramIterationCount=12000

Or, if using the setParameter command within the mongo shell:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, scramIterationCount: 12000 } )

Tip

• db.changeUserPassword()

• db.createUser()

• db.updateUser()

scramSHA256IterationCount

Default: 15000

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Changes the number of hashing iterations used for all new SCRAM-SHA-256 passwords. More iterations increase the amount of time required for clients to authenticate to MongoDB, but makes passwords less susceptible to brute-force attempts. The default value is ideal for most common use cases and requirements.

If you modify this value, it does not change iteration count for existing passwords. The scramSHA256IterationCount value must be 5000 or greater.

For example, the following sets the scramSHA256IterationCount to 20000.

mongod --setParameter scramSHA256IterationCount=20000

Or, if using the setParameter command within the mongo shell:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, scramSHA256IterationCount: 20000 } )

Tip

• db.changeUserPassword()

• db.createUser()

• db.updateUser()

sslMode

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Set the net.ssl.mode to either preferSSL or requireSSL. Useful during rolling upgrade to TLS/SSL to minimize downtime.

For more information about TLS/SSL and MongoDB, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL and TLS/SSL Configuration for Clients .

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, sslMode: "preferSSL" } )

Tip

tlsMode

tlsMode

New in version 4.2.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Set to either:

• preferTLS

• requireTLS

The tlsMode parameter is useful during rolling upgrade to TLS/SSL to minimize downtime.

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, tlsMode: "preferTLS" } )

For more information about TLS/SSL and MongoDB, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL and TLS/SSL Configuration for Clients .

Tip

sslMode

tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs

New in version 4.4: Available for Linux.

The maximum number of seconds the mongod / mongos instance should wait to receive the OCSP status response for its certificates.

Specify an integer greater than or equal to (>=) 1. If unset, tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs uses the tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs value.

You can only set tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs during startup in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. For example, the following sets the tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs to 20 seconds:

mongod --setParameter tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs=20 ...

Tip

• ocspEnabled

• ocspStaplingRefreshPeriodSecs

• tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs

tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs

New in version 4.4: Available for Linux and Windows.

Default: 5

The maximum number of seconds that the mongod / mongos should wait for the OCSP response when verifying server certificates.

Specify an integer greater than or equal to (>=) 1.

You can only set tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs during startup in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. For example, the following sets the tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs to 20 seconds:

mongod --setParameter tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs=20 ...

Tip

• ocspEnabled

• ocspStaplingRefreshPeriodSecs

• tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs

tlsUseSystemCA

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: false

Specifies whether MongoDB loads TLS certificates that are already available to the operating system's certificate authority.

Important

When starting a mongod instance with TLS/SSL enabled, you must specify a value for the --tlsCAFile flag, the net.tls.CAFile configuration option, or the tlsUseSystemCA parameter.

--tlsCAFile, tls.CAFile, and tlsUseSystemCA are all mutually exclusive.

You can set tlsUseSystemCA only during startup in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. For example, to set tlsUseSystemCA to true:

mongod --setParameter tlsUseSystemCA=true

For more information about TLS/SSL and MongoDB, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL and TLS/SSL Configuration for Clients .

tlsWithholdClientCertificate

Default: false

New in version 4.2.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

A TLS certificate is set for a mongod or mongos either by the --tlsClusterFile option or by the --tlsCertificateKeyFile option when --tlsClusterFile is not set. If the TLS certificate is set, by default, the instance sends the certificate when initiating intra-cluster communications with other mongod or mongos instances in the deployment. Set tlsWithholdClientCertificate to 1 or true to direct the instance to withhold sending its TLS certificate during these communications. Use this option with --tlsAllowConnectionsWithoutCertificates (to allow inbound connections without certificates) on all members of the deployment. tlsWithholdClientCertificate is mutually exclusive with --clusterAuthMode x509.

tlsX509ClusterAuthDNOverride

New in version 4.2.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

An alternative Distinguished Name (DN) that the instance can also use to identify members of the deployment.

For a MongoDB deployment that uses x.509 certificates for clusterAuthMode, deployment members identify each other using x.509 certificates ( net.tls.clusterFile, if specified, and net.tls.certificateKeyFile) during intra-cluster communications. For members of the same deployment, the DN from their certificates must have the same Organization attributes (O's), the Organizational Unit attributes (OU's), and the Domain Components (DC's).

If tlsX509ClusterAuthDNOverride is set for a member, the member can also use the override value when comparing the DN components (O's, OU's, and DC's) of the presented certificates. That is the member checks the presented certificates against its net.tls.clusterFile/net.tls.certificateKeyFile. If the DN does not match, the member checks the presented certificate against the tlsX509ClusterAuthDNOverride value.

Note

If set, you must set this parameter on all members of the deployment.

You can use this parameter for a rolling update of certificates to new certificates that contain a new DN value. See Rolling Update of x.509 Cluster Certificates that Contain New DN.

For more information about membership certificate requirements, see Member Certificate Requirements for details.

tlsX509ExpirationWarningThresholdDays

New in version 4.4.

Default : 30

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Starting in MongoDB 4.4, mongod / mongos logs a warning on connection if the presented x.509 certificate expires within 30 days of the mongod/mongos system clock. Use the tlsX509ExpirationWarningThresholdDays parameter to control the certificate expiration warning threshold:

• Increase the parameter value to trigger warnings farther ahead of the certificate expiration date.

• Decrease the parameter value to trigger warnings closer to the certificate expiration date.

• Set the parameter to 0 to disable the warning.

This parameter has a minimum value of 0.

You can only set tlsX509ExpirationWarningThresholdDays during mongod/mongos startup using either:

• The setParameter configuration setting, or

• The mongod --setParameter / mongos --setParameter command line option.

See x.509 Certificates Nearing Expiry Trigger Warnings for more information on x.509 expiration warnings in MongoDB 4.4.

For more information on x.509 certificate validity, see RFC 5280 4.1.2.5.

sslWithholdClientCertificate

Default: false

Deprecated since version 4.2: Use tlsWithholdClientCertificate instead.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

A TLS certificate is set for a mongod or mongos either by the --tlsClusterFile option or by the --tlsCertificateKeyFile option when --tlsClusterFile is not set. If the TLS certificate is set, by default, the instance sends the certificate when initiating intra-cluster communications with other mongod or mongos instances in the deployment. Set sslWithholdClientCertificate to 1 or true to direct the instance to withhold sending its TLS certificate during these communications. Use this option with --tlsAllowConnectionsWithoutCertificates (to allow inbound connections without certificates) on all members of the deployment. sslWithholdClientCertificate is mutually exclusive with --clusterAuthMode x509.

userCacheInvalidationIntervalSecs

Default: 30

Available for mongos only.

On a mongos instance, specifies the interval (in seconds) at which the mongos instance checks to determine whether the in-memory cache of user objects has stale data, and if so, clears the cache. If there are no changes to user objects, mongos will not clear the cache.

This parameter has a minimum value of 1 second and a maximum value of 86400 seconds (24 hours).

authFailedDelayMs

Default: 0

Available for both mongod and mongos.

New in version 3.4.

Note

Enterprise Feature

Available in MongoDB Enterprise only.

The number of milliseconds to wait before informing clients that their authentication attempt has failed. This parameter may be in the range 0 to 5000, inclusive.

Setting this parameter makes brute-force login attacks on a database more time-consuming. However, clients waiting for a response from the MongoDB server still consume server resources, and this may adversely impact benign login attempts if the server is denying access to many other clients simultaneously.

allowRolesFromX509Certificates

Default: true

Available for both mongod and mongos.

A boolean flag that allows or disallows the retrieval of authorization roles from client x.509 certificates.

You can only set allowRolesFromX509Certificates during startup in the config file or on the command line.

General Parameters

connPoolMaxShardedConnsPerHost

Default: 200

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the maximum size of the legacy connection pools for communication to the shards. The size of a pool does not prevent the creation of additional connections, but does prevent the connection pools from retaining connections above this limit.

Note

The parameter is separate from the connections in TaskExecutor pools. See ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize.

Increase the connPoolMaxShardedConnsPerHost value only if the number of connections in a connection pool has a high level of churn or if the total number of created connections increase.

You can only set connPoolMaxShardedConnsPerHost during startup in the config file or on the command line. For example:

mongos --setParameter connPoolMaxShardedConnsPerHost=250

connPoolMaxShardedInUseConnsPerHost

New in version 3.6.3.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the maximum number of in-use connections at any given time for the legacy sharded cluster connection pools.

By default, the parameter is unset.

You can only set connPoolMaxShardedConnsPerHost during startup in the config file or on the command line. For example:

mongos --setParameter connPoolMaxShardedInUseConnsPerHost=100

Tip

connPoolMaxShardedConnsPerHost

shardedConnPoolIdleTimeoutMinutes

New in version 3.6.3.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the time limit that a connection in the legacy sharded cluster connection pool can remain idle before being closed.

By default, the parameter is unset.

You can only set shardedConnPoolIdleTimeoutMinutes during startup in the config file or on the command line. For example:

mongos --setParameter shardedConnPoolIdleTimeoutMinutes=10

Tip

connPoolMaxShardedConnsPerHost

connPoolMaxConnsPerHost

Default: 200

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the maximum size of the legacy connection pools for outgoing connections to other mongod instances in the global connection pool. The size of a pool does not prevent the creation of additional connections, but does prevent a connection pool from retaining connections in excess of the value of connPoolMaxConnsPerHost.

Note

The parameter is separate from the connections in TaskExecutor pools. See ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize.

Only adjust this setting if your driver does not pool connections and you're using authentication in the context of a sharded cluster.

You can only set connPoolMaxConnsPerHost during startup in the config file or on the command line. For example:

mongod --setParameter connPoolMaxConnsPerHost=250

connPoolMaxInUseConnsPerHost

New in version 3.6.3.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the maximum number of in-use connections at any given time for for outgoing connections to other mongod instances in the legacy global connection pool.

By default, the parameter is unset.

You can only set connPoolMaxInUseConnsPerHost during startup in the config file or on the command line. For example:

mongod --setParameter connPoolMaxInUseConnsPerHost=100

Tip

connPoolMaxConnsPerHost

globalConnPoolIdleTimeoutMinutes

New in version 3.6.3.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the time limit that connection in the legacy global connection pool can remain idle before being closed.

By default, the parameter is unset.

You can only set globalConnPoolIdleTimeoutMinutes during startup in the config file or on the command line. For example:

mongos --setParameter globalConnPoolIdleTimeoutMinutes=10

Tip

connPoolMaxShardedConnsPerHost

cursorTimeoutMillis

Default: 600000 (i.e. 10 minutes)

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the expiration threshold in milliseconds for idle cursors before MongoDB removes them; i.e. MongoDB removes cursors that have been idle for the specified cursorTimeoutMillis.

For example, the following sets the cursorTimeoutMillis to 300000 milliseconds (i.e. 5 minutes).

mongod --setParameter cursorTimeoutMillis=300000

Or, if using the setParameter command within the mongo shell:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, cursorTimeoutMillis: 300000 } )

Setting cursorTimeoutMillis to less than or equal to 0 results in all cursors being immediately eligible for timeout. Generally, the timeout value should be greater than the average amount of time for a query to return results. Use tools like the cursor.explain() cursor modifier to analyze the average query time and select an appropriate timeout period.

Warning

Starting in MongoDB 4.4.8, MongoDB cleans up orphaned cursors linked to sessions as part of session management. This means that orphaned cursors with session ids do not use cursorTimeoutMillis to control the timeout.

For operations that return a cursor and have an idle period longer than localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes, use Mongo.startSession() to perform the operation within an explicit session. To refresh the session, run the refreshSessions command. For details, see Refresh a Cursor with refreshSessions.

failIndexKeyTooLong

Removed in 4.4

Important

• MongoDB 4.4 removes the deprecated failIndexKeyTooLong parameter. Attempting to use this parameter with MongoDB 4.4 will result in an error.

• MongoDB 4.2 deprecates the failIndexKeyTooLong parameter and removes the Index Key Length Limit for featureCompatibilityVersion (fCV) set to "4.2" or greater.

Setting failIndexKeyTooLong to false is a temporary workaround, not a permanent solution to the problem of oversized index keys. With failIndexKeyTooLong set to false, queries can return incomplete results if they use indexes that skip over documents whose indexed fields exceed the Index Key Length Limit.

failIndexKeyTooLong defaults to true.

Issue the following command to disable the index key length validation:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, failIndexKeyTooLong: false } )

You can also set failIndexKeyTooLong at startup time with the following option:

mongod --setParameter failIndexKeyTooLong=false

maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 3

Sets the maximum number of concurrent index builds allowed on the primary. This is a global limit that applies across all collections.

Increasing the value of maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds allows additional concurrent index builds at the cost of increased pressure on the WiredTiger cache.

System indexes are not limited to maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds, however a system index build counts against the limit for user index builds.

After the server reaches maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds, it blocks additional user index builds until the number of concurrent index builds drops below the maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds limit. If an index build is blocked, the server logs this message:

Too many index builds running simultaneously, waiting until the
number of active index builds is below the threshold.

The following command sets a limit of 4 concurrent index builds:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds: 4 } )

See also:

• maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes

• Index Builds on Populated Collections

notablescan

Available for mongod only.

Specify whether all queries must use indexes. If 1, MongoDB will not execute queries that require a collection scan and will return an error.

Consider the following example which sets notablescan to 1 or true:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, notablescan: 1 } )

Setting notablescan to 1 can be useful for testing application queries, for example, to identify queries that scan an entire collection and cannot use an index.

To detect unindexed queries without notablescan, consider reading the Evaluate Performance of Current Operations and Optimize Query Performance sections and using the logLevel parameter, mongostat and profiling.

Don't run production mongod instances with notablescan because preventing collection scans can potentially affect queries in all databases, including administrative queries.

ttlMonitorEnabled

Available for mongod only.

Default: true

To support TTL Indexes, mongod instances have a background thread that is responsible for deleting documents from collections with TTL indexes.

To disable this worker thread for a mongod, set ttlMonitorEnabled to false, as in the following operations:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ttlMonitorEnabled: false } )

Alternately, you may disable the thread at startup time by starting the mongod instance with the following option:

mongod --setParameter ttlMonitorEnabled=false

Important

Do not run production mongod instances with ttlMonitorEnabled disabled, except under guidance from MongoDB support. Preventing TTL document removal can negatively impact MongoDB internal system operations that depend on TTL Indexes.

tcpFastOpenServer

New in version 4.4.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: true

Enables support for accepting inbound TCP Fast Open (TFO) connections to the mongod/mongos from a client. TFO requires both the client and mongod/mongos host machine support and enable TFO:

Windows

The following Windows operating systems support TFO:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and later.

• Microsoft Windows 10 Update 1607 and later.

macOS

macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) and later support TFO.

Linux

Linux operating systems running Linux Kernel 3.7 or later can support inbound TFO.

Set the value of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen to enable inbound TFO connections:

• Set to 2 to enable only inbound TFO connections.

• Set to 3 to enable inbound and outbound TFO connections.

This parameter has no effect if the host operating system does not support or is not configured to support TFO connections.

You can only set this parameter on startup, using either the setParameter configuration file setting or the --setParameter command line option.

See Support for TCP Fast Open for more information on MongoDB TFO support.

Tip

RFC7413.

tcpFastOpenClient

New in version 4.4.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: true

Linux Operating System Only

Enables support for outbound TCP Fast Open (TFO) connections from the mongod/mongos to a client. TFO requires both the client and the mongod/mongos host machine support and enable TFO.

Linux operating systems running Linux Kernel 4.11 or later can support outbound TFO.

Set the value of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen to enable outbound TFO connections:

• 1 to enable only outbound TFO connections.

• 3 to enable inbound and outbound TFO connections.

This parameter has no effect if the host operating system does not support or is not configured to support TFO connections.

You can only set this parameter on startup, using either the setParameter configuration file setting or the --setParameter command line option.

See Support for TCP Fast Open for more information on MongoDB TFO support.

Tip

RFC7413.

tcpFastOpenQueueSize

New in version 4.4.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 1024

As part of establishing a TCP Fast Open (TFO) connection, the client submits a valid TFO cookie to the mongod/mongos before completion of the standard TCP 3-way handshake. The mongod/mongos keeps a queue of all such pending TFO connections.

The tcpFastOpenQueueSize parameter sets the size of the queue of pending TFO connections. While the queue is full, the mongod/mongos falls back to the normal three-way handshake for incoming client requests and ignores the presence of TFO cookies. Once the queue size falls back below the limit, the mongod/mongos begins accepting new TFO cookies.

• Increasing the default queue size may improve the effect of TFO on network performance. However, large queue sizes also increase the risk of server resource exhaustion due to excessive incoming TFO requests.

• Decreasing the default queue size may reduce the risk of resource server resource exhaustion due to excessive incoming TFO requests. However, small queue sizes may also reduce the effect of TFO on network performance.

  The minimum queue size is 0. A queue of 0 effectively disables TFO.

This parameter has no effect on host operating systems that do not support or are not configured for TFO connections. See Support for TCP Fast Open for more information on MongoDB TFO support.

Tip

• RFC7413 TCP Fast Open Section 5: Security Considerations

• RFC7413 TCP Fast Open Section 6: TFO Applicability

disableJavaScriptJIT

Available for mongod only.

The MongoDB JavaScript engine uses SpiderMonkey, which implements Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation for improved performance when running scripts.

To enable the JIT, set disableJavaScriptJIT to false, as in the following example:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, disableJavaScriptJIT: false } )

Note

$where will reuse existing JavaScript interpreter contexts, so changes to disableJavaScriptJIT may not take effect immediately for these operations.

Alternately, you may enable the JIT at startup time by starting the mongod instance with the following option:

mongod --setParameter disableJavaScriptJIT=false

maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes

New in version 3.4.

Default:

• 200 (For versions 4.2.3 and later)

• 500 (For versions 4.2.2 and earlier)

Limits the amount of memory that simultaneous index builds on one collection may consume for the duration of the builds. The specified amount of memory is shared between all indexes built using a single createIndexes command or its shell helper db.collection.createIndexes().

The memory consumed by an index build is separate from the WiredTiger cache memory (see cacheSizeGB).

Index builds may be initiated either by a user command such as Create Index or by an administrative process such as an initial sync. Both are subject to the limit set by maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes.

An initial sync operation populates only one collection at a time and has no risk of exceeding the memory limit. However, it is possible for a user to start index builds on multiple collections in multiple databases simultaneously and potentially consume an amount of memory greater than the limit set in maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes.

Tip

To minimize the impact of building an index on replica sets and sharded clusters with replica set shards, use a rolling index build procedure as described on Rolling Index Builds on Replica Sets.

• For feature compatibility version (fcv) "4.2" and later, the index build memory limit applies to all index builds.

reportOpWriteConcernCountersInServerStatus

Default: false

A boolean flag that determines whether the db.serverStatus() method and serverStatus command return opWriteConcernCounters information. [1]

You can only set reportOpWriteConcernCountersInServerStatus during startup in the config file or on the command line. For example:

mongod --setParameter reportOpWriteConcernCountersInServerStatus=true

[1]	Enabling reportOpWriteConcernCountersInServerStatus can have a negative performance impact; specificaly, when running without TLS.

watchdogPeriodSeconds

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: -1 (disabled)

Determines how frequent the Storage Node Watchdog checks the status of the monitored filesystems:

• The --dbpath directory

• The journal directory inside the --dbpath directory if journaling is enabled

• The directory of --logpath file

• The directory of --auditPath file

Valid values for watchdogPeriodSeconds are:

• -1 (the default), to disable/pause Storage Node Watchdog, or

• An integer greater than or equal to 60.

Note

• If a filesystem on a monitored directory becomes unresponsive, it can take a maximum of nearly twice the value of watchdogPeriodSeconds to terminate the mongod.

• If any of its monitored directory is a symlink to other volumes, the Storage Node Watchdog does not monitor the symlink target. For example, if the mongod uses storage.directoryPerDB: true (or --directoryperdb) and symlinks a database directory to another volume, the Storage Node Watchdog does not follow the symlink to monitor the target.

To enable Storage Node Watchdog, watchdogPeriodSeconds must be set during startup.

mongod --setParameter watchdogPeriodSeconds=60

You can only enable the Storage Node Watchdog at startup. However, once enabled, you can pause the Storage Node Watchdog or change the watchdogPeriodSeconds during runtime.

Once enabled,

• To pause the Storage Node Watchdog during runtime, set watchdogPeriodSeconds to -1.

  db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, watchdogPeriodSeconds: -1 } )

• To resume or change the period during runtime, set watchdogPeriodSeconds to a number greater than or equal to 60.

  db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, watchdogPeriodSeconds: 120 } )

Note

It is an error to set watchdogPeriodSeconds at runtime if the Storage Node Watchdog was not enabled at startup time.

tcmallocAggressiveMemoryDecommit

Type: integer (0 or 1 only)

Default: 0

If you enable tmallocAggressiveMemoryDecommit, MongoDB:

• releases a chunk of memory to system, and

• attempts to return all neighboring free chunks.

A value of 1 enables tcmallocAggressiveMemoryDecommit; 0 disables this parameter.

If you enable this parameter, the system will require new memory allocations for use. Consider enabling tcmallocAggressiveMemoryDecommit only on memory-constrained systems and after pursuing other memory and performance options.

Despite the potential performance degradation when using tcmallocAggressiveMemoryDecommit, it is often preferred over using tcmallocReleaseRate.

tcmallocReleaseRate

New in version 4.2.3.

Default: 1.0

Specifies the tcmalloc release rate (TCMALLOC_RELEASE_RATE). Per https://gperftools.github.io/gperftools/tcmalloc.html#runtime TCMALLOC_RELEASE_RATE is described as the "Rate at which we release unused memory to the system, via madvise(MADV_DONTNEED), on systems that support it. Zero means we never release memory back to the system. Increase this flag to return memory faster; decrease it to return memory slower. Reasonable rates are in the range [0,10]."

Note

Consider using tcmallocAggressiveMemoryDecommit instead of tcmallocReleaseRate, unless you see a significant performance degradation when using tcmallocAggressiveMemoryDecommit.

To modify the release rate during run time, you can use the setParameter command; for example:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, tcmallocReleaseRate: 5.0 } )

You can also set tcmallocReleaseRate at startup time; for example:

mongod --setParameter "tcmallocReleaseRate=5.0"

Logging Parameters

logLevel

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Specify an integer between 0 and 5 signifying the verbosity of the logging, where 5 is the most verbose. [2]

The default logLevel is 0 (Informational).

The following example sets the logLevel to 2:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, logLevel: 2 } )

Tip

• logComponentVerbosity

• systemLog.verbosity

[2]	Starting in version 4.2, MongoDB includes the Debug verbosity level (1-5) in the log messages. For example, if the verbosity level is 2, MongoDB logs D2. In previous versions, MongoDB log messages only specified D for Debug level.

logComponentVerbosity

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the verbosity levels of various components for log messages. The verbosity level determines the amount of Informational and Debug messages MongoDB outputs. [3]

The verbosity level can range from 0 to 5:

• 0 is the MongoDB's default log verbosity level, to include Informational messages.

• 1 to 5 increases the verbosity level to include Debug messages.

For a component, you can also specify -1 to inherit the parent's verbosity level.

To specify the verbosity level, use a document similar to the following:

{
  verbosity: <int>,
  <component1>: { verbosity: <int> },
  <component2>: {
     verbosity: <int>,
     <component3>: { verbosity: <int> }
  },
  ...
}

For the components, you can specify just the <component>: <int> in the document, unless you are setting both the parent verbosity level and that of the child component(s) as well:

{
  verbosity: <int>,
  <component1>: <int> ,
  <component2>: {
     verbosity: <int>,
     <component3>: <int>
  }
  ...
}

The top-level verbosity field corresponds to systemLog.verbosity which sets the default level for all components. The default value of systemLog.verbosity is 0.

The components correspond to the following settings:

• accessControl

• command

• control

• ftdc

• geo

• index

• network

• query

• replication

• replication.election

• replication.heartbeats

• replication.initialSync

• replication.rollback

• recovery

• sharding

• storage

• storage.journal

• transaction

• write

Unless explicitly set, the component has the verbosity level of its parent. For example, storage is the parent of storage.journal. That is, if you specify a storage verbosity level, this level also applies to:

• storage.journal components unless you specify the verbosity level for storage.journal.

• storage.recovery components unless you specify the verbosity level for storage.recovery.

For example, the following sets the default verbosity level to 1, the query to 2, the storage to 2, and the storage.journal to 1.

db.adminCommand( {
   setParameter: 1,
   logComponentVerbosity: {
      verbosity: 1,
      query: { verbosity: 2 },
      storage: {
         verbosity: 2,
         journal: {
            verbosity: 1
         }
      }
   }
} )

You can also set parameter logComponentVerbosity at startup time, passing the verbosity level document as a string.

mongod --setParameter "logComponentVerbosity={command: 3}"

The mongo shell also provides the db.setLogLevel() to set the log level for a single component. For various ways to set the log verbosity level, see Configure Log Verbosity Levels.

[3]	Starting in version 4.2, MongoDB includes the Debug verbosity level (1-5) in the log messages. For example, if the verbosity level is 2, MongoDB logs D2. In previous versions, MongoDB log messages only specified D for Debug level.

maxLogSizeKB

New in version 3.4.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: non-negative integer

Default: 10

Specifies the maximum size, in kilobytes, for an individual attribute field in a log entry; attributes exceeding this limit are truncated.

Truncated attribute fields print field content up to the maxLogSizeKB limit and excise field content past that limit, retaining valid JSON formating. Log entires that contain truncated attributes append a truncated object to the end of the log entry.

See log message truncation for more information.

A value of 0 disables truncation entirely. Negative values for this parameter are not valid.

Warning

Using a large value, or disabling truncation with a value of 0, may adversely affect system performance and negatively impact database operations.

The following example sets the maximum log line size to 20 kilobytes:

mongod --setParameter maxLogSizeKB=20

quiet

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets quiet logging mode. If 1, mongod will go into a quiet logging mode which will not log the following events/activities:

• connection events;

• the drop command, the dropIndexes command, the validate command; and

• replication synchronization activities.

Consider the following example which sets the quiet parameter to 1:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, quiet: 1 } )

Tip

systemLog.quiet

redactClientLogData

New in version 3.4.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Note

Enterprise Feature

Available in MongoDB Enterprise only.

Configure the mongod or mongos to redact any message accompanying a given log event before logging. This prevents the program from writing potentially sensitive data stored on the database to the diagnostic log. Metadata such as error or operation codes, line numbers, and source file names are still visible in the logs.

Use redactClientLogData in conjunction with Encryption at Rest and TLS/SSL (Transport Encryption) to assist compliance with regulatory requirements.

To enable log redaction at startup, you can either:

• Start mongod with the --redactClientLogData option:

  mongod --redactClientLogData

• Set the security.redactClientLogData option in the configuration file:

  security:
     redactClientLogData: true
     ...

You can't use the --setParameter option to set redactClientLogData at startup.

To enable log redaction on a running mongod or mongos, use the following command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, redactClientLogData : true } )

Tip

security.redactClientLogData

traceExceptions

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Configures mongod to log full source code stack traces for every database and socket C++ exception, for use with debugging. If true, mongod will log full stack traces.

Consider the following example which sets the traceExceptions to true:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, traceExceptions: true } )

Tip

systemLog.traceAllExceptions

suppressNoTLSPeerCertificateWarning

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: false

By default, a mongod or mongos with TLS/SSL enabled and net.ssl.allowConnectionsWithoutCertificates : true lets clients connect without providing a certificate for validation while logging an warning. Set suppressNoTLSPeerCertificateWarning to 1 or true to suppress those warnings.

The following operation sets suppressNoTLSPeerCertificateWarning to true:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, suppressNoTLSPeerCertificateWarning: true} )

Diagnostic Parameters

To facilitate analysis of the MongoDB server behavior by MongoDB engineers, MongoDB logs server statistics to diagnostic files at periodic intervals.

For mongod, the diagnostic data files are stored in the diagnostic.data directory under the mongod instance's --dbpath or storage.dbPath.

For mongos, the diagnostic data files, by default, are stored in a directory under the mongos instance's --logpath or systemLog.path directory. The diagnostic data directory is computed by truncating the logpath's file extension(s) and concatenating diagnostic.data to the remaining name.

For example, if mongos has --logpath /var/log/mongodb/mongos.log.201708015, then the diagnostic data directory is /var/log/mongodb/mongos.diagnostic.data/ directory. To specify a different diagnostic data directory for mongos, set the diagnosticDataCollectionDirectoryPath parameter.

The following parameters support diagnostic data capture (FTDC):

diagnosticDataCollectionEnabled

New in version 3.2.

Changed in version 3.4.14: Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Determines whether to enable the collecting and logging of data for diagnostic purposes. Diagnostic logging is enabled by default.

For example, the following disables the diagnostic collection:

mongod --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionEnabled=false

diagnosticDataCollectionDirectoryPath

New in version 3.4.14.

Type: String

Available for mongos only.

Warning

If Full Time Diagnostic Data Capture (FTDC) is disabled with diagnosticDataCollectionEnabled or if systemLog.destination is set to syslog, you must restart mongos after setting diagnosticDataCollectionDirectoryPath.

Specify the directory for the diagnostic directory for mongos. If the directory does not exist, mongos creates the directory.

If unspecified, the diagnostic data directory is computed by truncating the mongos instance's --logpath or systemLog.path file extension(s) and concatenating diagnostic.data.

For example, if mongos has --logpath /var/log/mongodb/mongos.log.201708015, then the diagnostic data directory is /var/log/mongodb/mongos.diagnostic.data/.

If the mongos cannot create the specified directory, the diagnostic data capture is disabled for that instance. mongos may not be able to create the specified directory if a file with the same name already exists in the path or if the process does not have permissions to create the directory.

diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 200

Specifies the maximum size, in megabytes, of the diagnostic.data directory. If directory size exceeds this number, the oldest diagnostic files in the directory are automatically deleted based on the timestamp in the file name.

For example, the following sets the maximum size of the directory to 250 megabytes:

mongod --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB=250

The minimum value for diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB is 10 megabytes. diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB must be greater than maximum diagnostic file size diagnosticDataCollectionFileSizeMB.

diagnosticDataCollectionFileSizeMB

New in version 3.2.

Changed in version 3.4.14: Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 10

Specifies the maximum size, in megabytes, of each diagnostic file. If the file exceeds the maximum file size, MongoDB creates a new file.

For example, the following sets the maximum size of each diagnostic file to 20 megabytes:

mongod --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionFileSizeMB=20

The minimum value for diagnosticDataCollectionFileSizeMB is 1 megabyte.

diagnosticDataCollectionPeriodMillis

New in version 3.2.

Changed in version 3.4.14: Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 1000

Specifies the interval, in milliseconds, at which to collect diagnostic data.

For example, the following sets the interval to 5000 milliseconds or 5 seconds:

mongod --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionPeriodMillis=5000

The minimum value for diagnosticDataCollectionPeriodMillis is 100 milliseconds.

Logical Session

enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting

New in version 4.4.8.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: false

If enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting is true, replica set secondary members can replicate data from other secondary members even if settings.chainingAllowed is false.

You can only set enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting at startup and cannot change this setting with the setParameter command.

For example, to set the enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting for a mongod instance to true:

mongod --setParameter enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting=true

logicalSessionRefreshMillis

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 300000 (i.e. 5 minutes)

The interval (in milliseconds) at which the cache refreshes its logical session records against the main session store.

You can only set logicalSessionRefreshMillis at startup and cannot change this setting with the setParameter command.

For example, to set the logicalSessionRefreshMillis for a mongod instance to 10 minutes:

mongod --setParameter logicalSessionRefreshMillis=600000

localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes

New in version 3.6.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 30

Warning

For testing purposes only

This parameter is intended for testing purposes only and not for production use.

The time in minutes that a session remains active after its most recent use. Sessions that have not received a new read/write operation from the client or been refreshed with refreshSessions within this threshold are cleared from the cache. State associated with an expired session may be cleaned up by the server at any time.

This parameter applies only to the instance on which it is set. To set this parameter on replica sets and sharded clusters, you must specify the same value on every member; otherwise, sessions will not function properly.

You can only set localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes at startup and cannot change this setting with the setParameter command.

For example, to set the localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes for a test mongod instance to 20 minutes:

mongod --setParameter localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes=20

maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs

New in version 3.6.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 31536000 (1 year)

The maximum amount by which the current cluster time can be advanced; i.e., maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs is the maximum difference between the new value of the cluster time and the current cluster time. Cluster time is a logical time used for ordering of operations.

You cannot advance the cluster time to a new value if the new cluster time differs from the current cluster time by more than maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs,

You can only set maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs at startup and cannot change this setting with the setParameter command.

For example, to set the maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs for a mongod instance to 15 minutes:

mongod --setParameter maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs=900

maxSessions

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 1000000

The maximum number of sessions that can be cached.

You can only set maxSessions during start-up.

For example, to set the maxSessions for a mongod instance to 1000:

mongod --setParameter maxSessions=1000

periodicNoopIntervalSecs

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 10

The duration in seconds between noop writes on each individual node.

You can only set the parameter during startup, and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

Note

To modify this value for a MongoDB Atlas cluster, you must contact Atlas Support.

The following example sets the periodicNoopIntervalSecs to 1 second at startup:

mongod --setParameter periodicNoopIntervalSecs=1

TransactionRecordMinimumLifetimeMinutes

New in version 3.6.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 30

The minimum lifetime a transaction record exists in the transactions collection before the record becomes eligible for cleanup.

You can only set TransactionRecordMinimumLifetimeMinutes at startup and cannot change this setting with the setParameter command.

For example, to set the TransactionRecordMinimumLifetimeMinutes for a mongod instance to 20 minutes:

mongod --setParameter TransactionRecordMinimumLifetimeMinutes=20

Tip

localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes

enableFlowControl

New in version 4.2.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Enables or disables the mechanism that controls the rate at which the primary applies its writes with the goal of keeping the secondary members' majority committed lag under a configurable maximum value.

Note

For flow control to engage, the replica set/sharded cluster must have: featureCompatibilityVersion (fCV) of 4.2 and read concern majority enabled. That is, enabled flow control has no effect if fCV is not 4.2 or if read concern majority is disabled.

flowControlTargetLagSeconds

New in version 4.2.

Type: integer

Default: 10

The target maximum majority committed lag when running with flow control. When flow control is enabled, the mechanism attempts to keep the majority committed lag under the specified seconds. The parameter has no effect if flow control is disabled.

The specified value must be greater than 0.

In general, the default settings should suffice; however, if modifying from the default value, decreasing, rather than increasing, the value may prove to be more useful.

flowControlWarnThresholdSeconds

New in version 4.2.

Type: integer

Default: 10

The amount of time to wait to log a warning once the flow control mechanism detects the majority commit point has not moved.

The specified value must be greater than or equal to 0, with 0 to disable warnings.

initialSyncTransientErrorRetryPeriodSeconds

New in version 4.4.

Type: integer

Default: 86400

The amount of time in seconds a secondary performing initial sync attempts to resume the process if interrupted by a transient network error. The default value is equivalent to 24 hours.

initialSyncSourceReadPreference

New in version 4.4.

Type: String

Available for mongod only.

The preferred source for performing initial sync. Specify one of the following read preference modes:

• primary

• primaryPreferred (Default for voting replica set members)

• secondary

• secondaryPreferred

• nearest (Default for newly added or non-voting replica set members)

If the replica set has disabled chaining, the default initialSyncSourceReadPreference read preference mode is primary.

You cannot specify a tag set or maxStalenessSeconds to initialSyncSourceReadPreference.

If the mongod cannot find a sync source based on the specified read preference, it logs an error and restarts the initial sync process. The mongod exits with an error if it cannot complete the initial sync process after 10 attempts. For more information on sync source selection, see Initial Sync Source Selection.

initialSyncSourceReadPreference takes precedence over the replica set's settings.chainingAllowed setting when selecting an initial sync source. After a replica set member successfully completes initial sync, it defers to the value of chainingAllowed when selecting a replication sync source.

You can only set this parameter on startup, using either the setParameter configuration file setting or the --setParameter command line option.

oplogFetcherUsesExhaust

New in version 4.4.

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Enables or disables streaming replication. Set the value to true to enable streaming replication.

Set the value to false to disable streaming replication. If disabled, secondaries fetch batches of oplog entries by issuing a request to their sync from source and waiting for a response. This requires a network roundtrip for each batch of oplog entries.

You can only set this parameter on startup, using either the setParameter configuration file setting or the --setParameter command line option.

oplogInitialFindMaxSeconds

New in version 3.6.

Type: integer

Default: 60

Available for mongod only.

Maximum time in seconds for a member of a replica set to wait for the find command to finish during data synchronization.

replWriterThreadCount

New in version 3.2.

Type: integer

Default: 16

Available for mongod only.

Maximum number of threads to use to apply replicated operations in parallel. Values can range from 1 to 256 inclusive. However, the maximum number of threads used is capped at twice the number of available cores.

You can only set replWriterThreadCount at startup and cannot change this setting with the setParameter command.

Tip

replWriterMinThreadCount

replWriterMinThreadCount

New in version 4.4.7.

Type: integer

Default: 0

Available for mongod only.

Minimum number of threads to use to apply replicated operations in parallel. Values can range from 0 to 256 inclusive. You can only set replWriterMinThreadCount at startup and cannot change this setting with the setParameter command.

Parallel application of replication operations uses up to replWriterThreadCount threads. If replWriterMinThreadCount is configured with a value less than replWriterThreadCount, the thread pool will timeout idle threads until the total count of threads in the thread pool is equal to replWriterMinThreadCount.

replWriterMinThreadCount must be configured with a value that is less than or equal to replWriterThreadCount.

rollbackTimeLimitSecs

Type: 64-bit integer

Default: 86400 (1 day)

Maximum age of data that can be rolled back. Negative values for this parameter are not valid.

If the time between the end of the to-be-rolledback instance's oplog and the first operation after the common point (the last point where the source node and the to-be-rolledback node had the same data) exceeds this value, the rollback will fail.

To effectively have an unlimited rollback period, set the value to 2147483647 which is the maximum value allowed and equivalent to roughly 68 years.

waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS

New in version 3.6.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 10

The length of time (in milliseconds) that a secondary must wait if the afterClusterTime is greater than the last applied time from the oplog. After the waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS passes, if the afterClusterTime is still greater than the last applied time, the secondary makes a no-op write to advance the last applied time.

The following example sets the waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS to 20 milliseconds:

mongod --setParameter waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS=20

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS: 20 } )

createRollbackDataFiles

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Flag that determines whether MongoDB creates rollback files that contains documents affected during a rollback.

By default, createRollbackDataFiles is true and MongoDB creates the rollback files.

The following example sets createRollbackDataFiles to false so that the rollback files are not created:

mongod --setParameter createRollbackDataFiles=false

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, createRollbackDataFiles: false } )

For more information, see Collect Rollback Data.

replBatchLimitBytes

Default: 104857600 (100MB)

Sets the maximum oplog application batch size in bytes.

Values can range from 16777216 (16MB) to 104857600 (100MB) inclusive.

The following example sets replBatchLimitBytes to 64 MB so that the rollback files are not created:

mongod --setParameter replBatchLimitBytes=67108864

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, replBatchLimitBytes: 64 * 1024 * 1024 } )

mirrorReads

Available for mongod only.

New in version 4.4.

Type: Document

Default: { samplingRate: 0.01, maxTimeMS: 1000 }

Specifies the settings for mirrored reads for the mongod instance. The settings only take effect when the member is a primary.

The parameter mirrorReads takes a JSON document with the following fields:

Field	Description
samplingRate	The sampling rate used to mirror a subset of operations that support mirroring to a subset of electable (i.e. priority greater than 0) secondaries. That is, the primary mirrors reads to each electable secondary at the specified sampling rate. Valid values are: 0.0 Turns off mirroring. 1.0 The primary mirrors all operations that supports mirroring to each electable secondary. Number between 0.0 and 1.0 (exclusive) The primary randomly samples each electable secondary at the specified rate to be sent mirrored reads. For example, given a replica set with a primary and two electable secondaries and a sampling rate of 0.10, the primary mirrors reads to each electable secondary at the sampling rate of 10 percent such that one read may be mirrored to one secondary and not to the other or to both or to neither. That is, if the primary receives 100 operations that can be mirrored, the sampling rate of 0.10 may result in 8 reads being mirrored to one secondary and 13 reads to the other or 10 to each, etc. The default value is 0.01.
maxTimeMS	The maximum time in milliseconds for the mirrored reads. The default value is 1000. The maxTimeMS for the mirrored reads is separate from the maxTimeMS of the original read being mirrored.

You can set mirrorReads during startup in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. If specifying from the configuration file or on the command line, enclose the mirrorReads document in quotes.

For example, the following sets the mirror reads sampling rate to 0.10 from the command line:

mongod --setParameter mirrorReads='{ samplingRate: 0.10 }'

Or, to specify in a configuration file:

setParameter:
   mirrorReads: '{samplingRate: 0.10}'

Or if using the setParameter command in a mongo shell connected to a running mongod, do not enclose the document in quotes:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, mirrorReads: { samplingRate: 0.10 } } )

Sharding Parameters

disableResumableRangeDeleter

New in version 4.4.

Type: boolean

Default: false

Available for mongod only.

If set on a shard's primary, specifies if range deletion is paused on the shard. If set to true, cleanup of chunk`ranges containing :term:`orphaned documents is paused. The shard can continue to donate chunks to other shards, but the donated documents will not be removed from this shard until you set this parameter to false. This shard can continue to receive chunks from other shards as long as it does not have a pending range deletion task in the config.rangeDeletions collection that overlaps with the incoming chunk's range.

When disableResumableRangeDeleter is true, chunk migrations fail if orphaned documents exist on the recipient shard's primary in the same range as the incoming chunks.

The parameter has no effect on the mongod if it is not the shard's primary.

Important

If you set disableResumableRangeDeleter parameter to true, ensure that you apply it consistently for all members in the shard's replica set. In the event of a failover, this setting's value on the new primary dictates the behavior of the range deleter.

You can only set this parameter during start-up and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

mongod --setParameter disableResumableRangeDeleter=false

enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck

New in version 4.4: (Also available starting in 4.2.6.)

Type: boolean

Default: true

Available for mongod only.

If set on the config server's primary, enables or disables the index consistency check for sharded collections. The parameter has no effect on the mongod if it is not the config server's primary.

The following example sets enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck to false for a config server primary:

mongod --setParameter enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck=false

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck: false } )

Tip

• shardedIndexConsistencyCheckIntervalMS parameter

• shardedIndexConsistency metrics returned by the serverStatus command.

opportunisticSecondaryTargeting

New in version 4.4.15.

Type: boolean

Default: false

Available for mongos only.

Determines whether mongos performs opportunistic reads against replica sets.

When this parameter is set to true, mongos directs secondary reads to secondaries with active connections. It sends the request to the first secondary that accepts the connection. When this parameter is set to false, mongos holds secondary reads until it can establish a connection to a specific secondary, (except in the case of hedged reads).

Note

Under certain workloads, opportunistic reads may trigger the opening of unnecessary connections from mongos to mongod and reduce overall performance. This parameter should not be enabled unless your application has a specific need for the feature.

For example, to set opportunisticSecondaryTargeting during startup:

mongos --setParameter opportunisticSecondaryTargeting=true

routingTableCacheChunkBucketSize

New in version 4.4.25.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 500

Specifies the size of the routing table cache buckets used to implement chunk grouping optimization. Must be greater than or equal to 0.

For example, to set the cache chunk bucket size to 1000 on a mongod, issue the following at startup:

mongod --setParameter routingTableCacheChunkBucketSize=1000

routingTableCacheChunkBucketSize cannot be updated during run time.

shardedIndexConsistencyCheckIntervalMS

New in version 4.4: (Also available starting in 4.2.6.)

Type: integer

Default: 600000

Available for mongod only.

If set on the config server's primary, the interval, in milliseconds, at which the config server's primary checks the index consistency of sharded collections. The parameter has no effect on the mongod if it is not the config server's primary.

You can only set the parameter during startup, and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

For example, the following sets the interval at 300000 milliseconds (i.e. 5 minutes) at startup:

mongod --setParameter shardedIndexConsistencyCheckIntervalMS=300000

Tip

• enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck parameter

• shardedIndexConsistency metrics returned by the serverStatus commandq

enableFinerGrainedCatalogCacheRefresh

New in version 4.4.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Available for both mongod and mongos.

This parameter allows the catalog cache to be refreshed only if the shard needs to be refreshed. If disabled, any stale chunk will cause the entire chunk distribution for a collection to be considered stale and force all routers who contact the shard to refresh their shard catalog cache.

You can only set this parameter during start-up and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

mongod --setParameter enableFinerGrainedCatalogCacheRefresh=true
mongos --setParameter enableFinerGrainedCatalogCacheRefresh=true

Tip

• Sharding

• shardingStatistics.catalogCache

maxTimeMSForHedgedReads

New in version 4.4.

Type: integer

Default: 150

Available for mongos only.

Specifies the maximum time limit (in milliseconds) for the hedged read. That is, the additional read sent to hedge the read operation uses the maxTimeMS value of maxTimeMSForHedgedReads while the read operation that is being hedged uses the maxTimeMS value specified for the operation.

For example, to set the limit to 200 milliseconds, you can issue the following during startup:

mongos --setParameter maxTimeMSForHedgedReads=200

Or if using the setParameter command in a mongo shell connected to a running mongos:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, maxTimeMSForHedgedReads: 200 } )

Tip

• readHedgingMode

• Hedged Reads

maxCatchUpPercentageBeforeBlockingWrites

New in version 4.4.7: (Also available starting in 4.2.15)

Type: integer

Default: 10

Available for mongod only.

For moveChunk operations, specifies the maximum percentage of untrasferred data allowed by the migration protocol (expressed in percentage of the total chunk size) to transition from the catchup phase to the commit phase.

Setting a higher catchup percentage can decrease the amount of time it takes for the migration to complete at the cost of increased latency during concurrent upsert and delete operations.

For example, to set the maximum percentage to 20, you can issue the followingduring startup:

mongod --setParameter maxCatchUpPercentageBeforeBlockingWrites=20

You cannot change maxCatchUpPercentageBeforeBlockingWrites during runtime.

Tip

Live Migration Protocol

readHedgingMode

New in version 4.4.

Type: string

Default: on

Available for mongos only.

Specifies whether mongos supports hedged reads for those read operations whose read preference have enabled the hedged read option.

Available values are:

Value	Description
on	The mongos instance supports hedged reads for read operations whose read preference have enabled the hedged read option.
off	The mongos instance does not support hedged reads. That is, hedged reads are unavailable, even for read operations whose read preference have enabled the hedged read option.

For example, to turn off hedged read support for a mongos instance, you can issue the following during startup:

mongos --setParameter readHedgingMode=off

Or if using the setParameter command in a mongo shell connected to a running mongos:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, readHedgingMode: "off" } )

Tip

• Hedged Reads

• maxTimeMSForHedgedReads

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolHostTimeoutMS

Type: integer

Default: 300000 (i.e. 5 minutes)

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Maximum time that mongos goes without communication to a host before mongos drops all connections to the host.

If set, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolHostTimeoutMS should be greater than the sum of ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS and ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS. Otherwise, mongos adjusts the value of ShardingTaskExecutorPoolHostTimeoutMS to be greater than the sum.

The following example sets ShardingTaskExecutorPoolHostTimeoutMS to 120000 during startup:

mongos --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolHostTimeoutMS=120000

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolHostTimeoutMS: 120000 } )

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxConnecting

New in version 3.6.

Type: integer

Default: 2

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Maximum number of simultaneous initiating connections (including pending connections in setup/refresh state) each TaskExecutor connection pool can have to a mongod instance. You can set this parameter to control the rate at which mongos adds connections to a mongod instance.

If set, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxConnecting should be less than or equal to ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize. If it is greater, mongos ignores the ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxConnecting value.

The following example sets ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxConnecting to 20 during startup:

mongos --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxConnecting=20

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxConnecting: 20 } )

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize

Type: integer

Default: 2 ⁶⁴ - 1

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Maximum number of outbound connections each TaskExecutor connection pool can open to any given mongod instance. The maximum possible connections to any given host across all TaskExecutor pools is:

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize * taskExecutorPoolSize

The following example sets ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize to 20 during startup:

mongos --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize=20

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize: 20 } )

mongos can have up to n TaskExecutor connection pools, where n is the number of cores. See taskExecutorPoolSize.

Tip

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSizeForConfigServers

New in version 4.4.16.

Type: integer

Default: -1

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Optional override for ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize to set the maximum number of outbound connections each TaskExecutor connection pool can open to a configuration server.

When set to:

• -1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize is used. This is the default.

• an integer value greater than -1, overrides the maximum number of outbound connections each TaskExecutor connection pool can open to a configuration server.

Parameter only applies to sharded deployments.

The following example sets ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize to 2 during startup, which sets the maximum number of outbound connections each TaskExecutor connection pool can open to a configuration server to 2:

mongos --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSizeForConfigServers=2

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSizeForConfigServers: 2 } )

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize

Type: integer

Default: 1

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Minimum number of outbound connections each TaskExecutor connection pool can open to any given mongod instance.

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize connections are created the first time a connection to a new host is requested from the pool. While the pool is idle, the pool maintains this number of connections until ShardingTaskExecutorPoolHostTimeoutMS milliseconds pass without any application using that pool.

For a mongos using the warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartup parameter, the ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize parameter also controls how many connections to each shard host are established on startup of the mongos instance before it begins accepting incoming client connections.

Note

In MongoDB 4.4, the warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartup parameter is enabled by default for the mongos.

The following example sets ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize to 2 during startup:

mongos --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize=2

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize: 2 } )

mongos can have up to n TaskExecutor connection pools, where n is the number of cores. See taskExecutorPoolSize.

Tip

• ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize

• warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartup

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSizeForConfigServers

New in version 4.4.16.

Type: integer

Default: -1

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Optional override for ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize to set the minimum number of outbound connections each TaskExecutor connection pool can open to a configuration server.

When set to:

• -1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize is used. This is the default.

• an integer value greater than -1, overrides the minimum number of outbound connections each TaskExecutor connection pool can open to a configuration server.

Parameter only applies to sharded deployments.

The following example sets ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize to 2 during startup, which sets the minimum number of outbound connections each TaskExecutor connection pool can open to a configuration server to 2:

mongos --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSizeForConfigServers=2

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSizeForConfigServers: 2 } )

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS

Type: integer

Default: 60000 (1 minute)

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Maximum time the mongos waits before attempting to heartbeat a resting connection in the pool.

If set, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS should be greater than ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS. Otherwise, mongos adjusts the value of ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS to be less than ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS.

The following example sets ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS to 90000 during startup:

mongos --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS=90000

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS: 90000 } )

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS

Type: integer

Default: 20000 (20 seconds)

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Maximum time the mongos waits for a heartbeat before timing out the heartbeat.

If set, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS should be less than ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS. Otherwise, mongos adjusts the value of ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS to be less than ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshRequirementMS.

The following example sets ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS to 30000 during startup:

mongos --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS=30000

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ShardingTaskExecutorPoolRefreshTimeoutMS: 30000 } )

ShardingTaskExecutorPoolReplicaSetMatching

New in version 4.2.

Changed in version 4.4.5: (Also starting in 4.2.13)

Type: string

Default: "automatic"

Available for both mongod and mongos.

On a mongos instance, this parameter sets the policy that determines the minimum size limit of its connection pools to nodes within replica sets.

On a mongod instance, this parameter sets the policy that determines the minimum size limit of its connection pools to nodes within other replica sets.

Note that this parameter only manages connections for operations that are directly related to user requests and CRUD operations.

Available values are:

Matching Policy	Description
"automatic" (Default)	Starting in 4.4.5 (and 4.2.13), "automatic" is the new default value. When set for a mongos, the instance follows the behavior specified for the "matchPrimaryNode" option. When set for a mongod, the instance follows the behavior specified for the "disabled" option. Note If the ShardingTaskExecutorPoolReplicaSetMatching is set to "automatic", the replicaSetMatchingStrategy still describes the actual policy being used, not "automatic". To find the value of the ShardingTaskExecutorPoolReplicaSetMatching, use getParameter which returns the value of the server parameter.
"matchPrimaryNode"	When set for a mongos, the minimum size limit of the instance's connection pool to each secondary of a replica set in the sharded cluster (specifically, shard replica set and config servers) is equal to the size of its connection pool to that replica set's primary. When set for a mongod, the minimum size limit of the instance's connection pool to each secondary of another replica set in the sharded cluster (specifically, shard replica set and config servers) is equal to the size of its connection pool to that replica set's primary. Warning If multiple shard servers in your topology can experience a rapid influx of cross-shard operations, do not set this option on your mongod instances. In case of a primary stepdown, matchPrimaryNode ensures that any secondary that becomes the primary can handle the current level of primary reads and writes.
"matchBusiestNode"	When set for a mongos, the instance's minimum size limit of the connection pool to each member of a replica set in the sharded cluster (specifically, shard replica set and config servers) is equal to the largest among the active connection counts to the primary and each secondary member of that replica set. When set for a mongod, the instance's minimum size limit of the connection pool to each member of another replica set in the sharded cluster (specifically, shard replica set and config servers) is equal to the largest among the active connection counts to the primary and each secondary member of that replica set. With "matchBusiestNode", mongos maintains enough connections to each secondary to handle the current level of primary and secondary reads and writes. The number of connections to maintain in the pool decreases as the number of active connections decreases.
"disabled"	When set for a mongos, the instance's minimum number of connections in the instance's connection pool to each node of a replica set in the sharded clusterv (specifically, shard replica set and config servers) is equal to the ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize. When set for a mongod, the instance's minimum number of connections in the instance's connection pool to each node of another replica set in the sharded cluster (specifically, shard replica set and config servers) is equal to the ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize.

The following example sets the ShardingTaskExecutorPoolReplicaSetMatching to "automatic" during startup:

mongod --setParameter ShardingTaskExecutorPoolReplicaSetMatching="automatic"

During runtime, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1,  ShardingTaskExecutorPoolReplicaSetMatching: "automatic" } )

taskExecutorPoolSize

Type: integer

Default: 1

Available for mongos only.

The number of Task Executor connection pools to use for a given mongos.

If the parameter value is 0 or less, the number of Task Executor connection pools is the number of cores with the following exceptions:

• If the number of cores is less than 4, the number of Task Executor connection pools is 4.

• If the number of cores is greater than 64, the number of Task Executor connection pools is 64.

When running MongoDB on Linux, you cannot modify the taskExecutorPoolSize from the default value of 1. You may modify this parameter when running MongoDB on Windows or macOS.

The default value of taskExecutorPoolSize is 1.

You can only set this parameter during start-up and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

mongos --setParameter taskExecutorPoolSize=6

Tip

• ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize

• ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize

loadRoutingTableOnStartup

New in version 4.4.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Available for mongos only.

Configures a mongos instance to preload the routing table for a sharded cluster on startup. With this setting enabled, the mongos caches the cluster-wide routing table for each sharded collection as part of its startup procedure, before it begins accepting client connections.

Without this setting enabled, the mongos only loads a routing table as needed for incoming client connections, and only loads the specific routing table for the namespace of a given request.

A mongos instance with the loadRoutingTableOnStartup parameter enabled may experience longer startup times, but will result in faster servicing of initial client connections once started.

loadRoutingTableOnStartup is enabled by default.

You can only set this parameter on startup, using either the setParameter configuration file setting or the --setParameter command line option.

warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartup

New in version 4.4.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Available for mongos only.

Configures a mongos instance to prewarm its connection pool on startup. With this parameter enabled, the mongos attempts to establish ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize network connections to each shard server as part of its startup procedure, before it begins accepting client connections.

A timeout for this behavior can be configured with the warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartupWaitMS parameter. If this timeout is reached, the mongos will begin accepting client connections regardless of the size of its connection pool.

A mongos instance with this parameter enabled may experience longer startup times, but will result in faster servicing of initial client connections once started.

warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartup is enabled by default.

You can only set this parameter on startup, using either the setParameter configuration file setting or the --setParameter command line option.

Tip

• warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartupWaitMS

• ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize

warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartupWaitMS

New in version 4.4.

Type: integer

Default: 2000 (i.e. 2 seconds)

Available for mongos only.

Sets the timeout threshold in milliseconds for a mongos to wait for ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize connections to be established per shard host when using the warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartup parameter. If this timeout is reached, the mongos will begin accepting client connections regardless of the size of its connection pool.

You can only set this parameter on startup, using either the setParameter configuration file setting or the --setParameter command line option.

Tip

• warmMinConnectionsInShardingTaskExecutorPoolOnStartup

• ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMinSize

migrateCloneInsertionBatchDelayMS

Available for mongod only.

Type: Non-negative integer

Default: 0

Time in milliseconds to wait between batches of insertions during cloning step of the migration process. This wait is in addition to the secondaryThrottle.

The default value of 0 indicates no additional wait.

The following sets the migrateCloneInsertionBatchDelayMS to 200 milliseconds:

mongod --setParameter migrateCloneInsertionBatchDelayMS=200

The parameter may also be set using the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, migrateCloneInsertionBatchDelayMS: 200 } )

migrateCloneInsertionBatchSize

Available for mongod only.

Type: Non-negative integer

Default: 0

The maximum number of documents to insert in a single batch during the cloning step of the migration process.

The default value of 0 indicates no maximum number of documents per batch. However, in practice, this results in batches that contain up to 16 MB of documents.

The following sets the migrateCloneInsertionBatchSize to 100 documents:

mongod --setParameter migrateCloneInsertionBatchSize=100

The parameter may also be set using the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, migrateCloneInsertionBatchSize: 100 } )

orphanCleanupDelaySecs

New in version 3.6.

Default: 900 (15 minutes)

Available for mongod only.

Minimum delay before a migrated chunk is deleted from the source shard.

Before deleting the chunk during chunk migration, MongoDB waits for orphanCleanupDelaySecs or for in-progress queries involving the chunk to complete on the shard primary, whichever is longer.

However, because the shard primary has no knowledge of in-progress queries run on the shard secondaries, queries that use the chunk but are run on secondaries may see documents disappear if these queries take longer than the time to complete the shard primary queries and the orphanCleanupDelaySecs.

Note

This behavior only affects in-progress queries that start before the chunk migration. Queries that start after the chunk migration starts will not use the migrating chunk.

If a shard has storage constraints, consider reducing this value temporarily. If running queries that exceed 15 minutes on shard secondaries, consider increasing this value.

The following sets the orphanCleanupDelaySecs to 20 minutes:

mongod --setParameter orphanCleanupDelaySecs=1200

This may also be set using the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, orphanCleanupDelaySecs: 1200 } )

rangeDeleterBatchDelayMS

Available for mongod only.

Type: Non-negative integer

Default: 20

The amount of time in milliseconds to wait before the next batch of deletion during the cleanup stage of chunk migration (or the cleanupOrphaned command).

In MongoDB 3.4, consider whether _secondaryThrottle is set before modifying the rangeDeleterBatchDelayMS. In MongoDB 3.4, the _secondaryThrottle replication delay occurs after each document deletion instead of after the batch deletion.

In MongoDB 3.6+, the _secondaryThrottle replication delay occurs after each batch deletion.

The following sets the rangeDeleterBatchDelayMS to 200 milliseconds:

mongod --setParameter rangeDeleterBatchDelayMS=200

The parameter may also be set using the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, rangeDeleterBatchDelayMS: 200 } )

rangeDeleterBatchSize

Available for mongod only.

Type: Non-negative integer

Default: 2147483647 starting in MongoDB 4.4.12 (128 in earlier MongoDB versions)

The maximum number of documents in each batch to delete during the cleanup stage of chunk migration (or the cleanupOrphaned command).

A value of 0 indicates that the system chooses the default value.

The following example sets rangeDeleterBatchSize to 32 documents:

mongod --setParameter rangeDeleterBatchSize=32

The parameter may also be set using the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, rangeDeleterBatchSize: 32 } )

skipShardingConfigurationChecks

New in version 3.6.3.

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: false

When true, allows for starting a shard member or config server member as a standalone for maintenance operations. This parameter is mutually exclusive with the --configsvr or --shardsvr options.

You can only set this parameter during start-up and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

mongod --setParameter skipShardingConfigurationChecks=true

Important

Once maintenance has completed, remove the skipShardingConfigurationChecks parameter when restarting the mongod.

findChunksOnConfigTimeoutMS

New in version 5.0.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: Non-negative integer

Default: 900000

The timeout in milliseconds for find operations on chunks.

If there is a large number of chunks in the cluster and queries on the chunks collection fail with the error ExceededTimeLimit, increase the parameter value:

mongod --setParameter findChunksOnConfigTimeoutMS=1000000

Storage Parameters

journalCommitInterval

Available for mongod only.

Specify an integer between 1 and 500 signifying the number of milliseconds (ms) between journal commits.

Consider the following example which sets the journalCommitInterval to 200 ms:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, journalCommitInterval: 200 } )

Tip

storage.journal.commitIntervalMs

syncdelay

Available for mongod only.

Specify the interval in seconds when mongod flushes its working memory to disk. By default, mongod flushes memory to disk every 60 seconds. In almost every situation you should not set this value and use the default setting.

Consider the following example which sets the syncdelay to 60 seconds:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, syncdelay: 60 } )

To provide durable data, WiredTiger uses checkpoints. For more details, see Journaling and the WiredTiger Storage Engine.

Tip

• journalCommitInterval

• storage.syncPeriodSecs

honorSystemUmask

New in version 3.6.

Available for mongod only.

Default: false

If honorSystemUmask is set to true, new files created by MongoDB have permissions in accordance with the user's umask settings. You cannot set processUmask if honorSystemUmask is set to true.

If honorSystemUmask is set to false, new files created by MongoDB have permissions set to 600, which gives read and write permissions only to the owner. New directories have permissions set to 700. You can use processUmask to override the default permissions for groups and other users on all new files created by MongoDB.

You can only set this parameter during start-up and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

mongod --setParameter honorSystemUmask=true

Note

honorSystemUmask is not available on Windows systems.

processUmask

New in version 4.4.

Available for mongod only.

Overrides the default permissions used for groups and other users when honorSystemUmask is set to false. By default, when honorSystemUmask is set to false, new files created by MongoDB have permissions set to 600. Use the processUmask parameter to override this default with a custom umask value. The file owner inherits permissions from the system umask.

You cannot set this parameter if honorSystemUmask is set to true. You can only set this parameter during start-up and cannot change this setting using the setParameter database command.

Consider the following example, which sets the permissions for groups and other users to read/write only and retains the system umask settings for the owner:

mongod --setParameter processUmask=011

Note

processUmask is not available on Windows systems.

WiredTiger Parameters

wiredTigerMaxCacheOverflowSizeGB

Note

Deprecated in MongoDB 4.4

MongoDB deprecates the wiredTigerMaxCacheOverflowSizeGB parameter. The parameter has no effect starting in MongoDB 4.4.

Default: 0 (No specified maximum)

Available for mongod only.

Specify the maximum size (in GB) for the "lookaside (or cache overflow) table" file WiredTigerLAS.wt for MongoDB 4.2.1-4.2.x. The file no longer exists starting in version 4.4.

The parameter can accept the following values:

Value	Description
0	The default value. If set to 0, the file size is unbounded.
number >= 0.1	The maximum size (in GB). If the WiredTigerLAS.wt file exceeds this size, mongod exits with a fatal assertion. You can clear the WiredTigerLAS.wt file and restart mongod.

You can only set this parameter during runtime using the setParameter database command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, wiredTigerMaxCacheOverflowSizeGB: 100 } )

To set the maximum size during start up, use the storage.wiredTiger.engineConfig.maxCacheOverflowFileSizeGB instead.

New in version 4.2.1.

wiredTigerConcurrentReadTransactions

Available for mongod only.

Available for the WiredTiger storage engine only.

Specify the maximum number of concurrent read transactions allowed into the WiredTiger storage engine.

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, wiredTigerConcurrentReadTransactions: <num> } )

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wiredTiger.concurrentTransactions

wiredTigerConcurrentWriteTransactions

Available for mongod only.

Available for the WiredTiger storage engine only.

Specify the maximum number of concurrent write transactions allowed into the WiredTiger storage engine.

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, wiredTigerConcurrentWriteTransactions: <num> } )

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wiredTiger.concurrentTransactions

wiredTigerEngineRuntimeConfig

Available for mongod only.

Specify wiredTiger storage engine configuration options for a running mongod instance. You can only set this parameter using the setParameter command and not using the command line or configuration file option.

Warning

Avoid modifying the wiredTigerEngineRuntimeConfig unless under the direction from MongoDB engineers as this setting has major implication across both WiredTiger and MongoDB.

Consider the following operation prototype:

db.adminCommand({
   "setParameter": 1,
   "wiredTigerEngineRuntimeConfig": "<option>=<setting>,<option>=<setting>"
})

See the WiredTiger documentation for all available WiredTiger configuration options.

Auditing Parameters

auditAuthorizationSuccess

Default: false

Note

Available only in MongoDB Enterprise and MongoDB Atlas.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Enables the auditing of authorization successes for the authCheck action.

When auditAuthorizationSuccess is false, the audit system only logs the authorization failures for authCheck.

To enable the audit of authorization successes, issue the following command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, auditAuthorizationSuccess: true } )

Enabling auditAuthorizationSuccess degrades performance more than logging only the authorization failures.

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getParameter

transactionLifetimeLimitSeconds

Available for mongod only.

Default: 60

Specifies the lifetime of multi-document transactions. Transactions that exceeds this limit are considered expired and will be aborted by a periodic cleanup process. The cleanup process runs every transactionLifetimeLimitSeconds/2 seconds or at least once per every 60 seconds.

The cleanup process helps relieve storage cache pressure.

The minimum value for transactionLifetimeLimitSeconds is 1 second.

The following sets the transactionLifetimeLimitSeconds to 30 seconds:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, transactionLifetimeLimitSeconds: 30 } )

You can also set parameter transactionLifetimeLimitSeconds at startup time.

mongod --setParameter "transactionLifetimeLimitSeconds=30"

To set the parameter for a sharded cluster, the parameter must be modified for all shard replica set members.

maxTransactionLockRequestTimeoutMillis

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 5

The maximum amount of time in milliseconds that multi-document transactions should wait to acquire locks required by the operations in the transaction.

If the transaction cannot acquire the locks after waiting maxTransactionLockRequestTimeoutMillis, the transaction aborts.

By default, multi-document transactions wait 5 milliseconds. That is, if the transaction cannot acquire the locks within 5 milliseconds, the transaction aborts. If an operation provides a greater timeout in a lock request, maxTransactionLockRequestTimeoutMillis overrides the operation-specific timeout.

You can set maxTransactionLockRequestTimeoutMillis to:

• 0 such that if the transaction cannot acquire the required locks immediately, the transaction aborts.

• A number greater than 0 to wait the specified time to acquire the required locks. This can help obviate transaction aborts on momentary concurrent lock acquisitions, like fast-running metadata operations. However, this could possibly delay the abort of deadlocked transaction operations.

• -1 to use the operation specific timeout.

The following sets the maxTransactionLockRequestTimeoutMillis to 20 milliseconds:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, maxTransactionLockRequestTimeoutMillis: 20 } )

You can also set this parameter during start-up:

mongod --setParameter maxTransactionLockRequestTimeoutMillis=20

shouldMultiDocTxnCreateCollectionAndIndexes

New in version 4.4.

Type: boolean

Default: true

A flag that enables or disables the creation of a collection or an index inside transactions. Set the parameter to:

• true to enable. (Default)

• false to disable.

You can set the parameter during startup or runtime.

Important

When setting the parameter for a sharded cluster, set the parameter on all shards.

To set the parameter at startup, specify the parameter in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. For example:

mongod --setParameter shouldMultiDocTxnCreateCollectionAndIndexes=false

To modify during runtime, you can use the setParameter command; for example:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, shouldMultiDocTxnCreateCollectionAndIndexes: false } )