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NAME
mongostat - MongoDB
SYNOPSIS
The mongostat utility provides a quick overview of the status of a currently running mongod or mongos
instance. mongostat is functionally similar to the UNIX/Linux file system utility vmstat, but provides
data regarding mongod and mongos instances.
See also
For more information about monitoring MongoDB, see /administration/monitoring.
For more background on various other MongoDB status outputs see:
• /reference/server-status
• /reference/replica-status
• /reference/database-statistics
• /reference/collection-statistics
For an additional utility that provides MongoDB metrics see "mongotop."
mongostat connects to the mongod instance running on the local host interface on TCP port 27017; however,
mongostat can connect to any accessible remote mongod instance.
OPTIONS
mongostat
--help Returns a basic help and usage text.
--verbose, -v
Increases the amount of internal reporting returned on the command line. Increase the verbosity
with the -v form by including the option multiple times, (e.g. -vvvvv.)
--version
Returns the version of the mongostat utility.
--host <hostname><:port>
Specifies a resolvable hostname for the mongod from which you want to export data. By default
mongostat attempts to connect to a MongoDB instance running on the localhost port number 27017.
Optionally, specify a port number to connect a MongoDB instance running on a port other than
27017.
To connect to a replica set, you can specify the replica set seed name, and a seed list of set
members, in the following format:
<replica_set_name>/<hostname1><:port>,<hostname2:<port>,...
--port <port>
Specifies the port number, if the MongoDB instance is not running on the standard port. (i.e.
27017) You may also specify a port number using the mongostat --host command.
--ipv6 Enables IPv6 support that allows mongostat to connect to the MongoDB instance using an IPv6
network. All MongoDB programs and processes, including mongostat, disable IPv6 support by default.
--ssl New in version 2.4: MongoDB added support for SSL connections to mongod instances in mongostat.
Note SSL support in mongostat is not compiled into the default distribution of MongoDB. See
/administration/ssl for more information on SSL and MongoDB.
Additionally, mongostat does not support connections to mongod instances that require client
certificate validation.
Allows mongostat to connect to mongod instance over an SSL connection.
--username <username>, -u <username>
Specifies a username to authenticate to the MongoDB instance, if your database requires
authentication. Use in conjunction with the mongostat --password option to supply a password.
--password <password>, -p <password>
Specifies a password to authenticate to the MongoDB instance. Use in conjunction with the
mongostat --username option to supply a username.
If you specify a --username without the --password option, mongostat will prompt for a password
interactively.
--authenticationDatabase <dbname>
New in version 2.4.
Specifies the database that holds the user's (e.g --username) credentials.
By default, mongostat assumes that the database specified to the --db argument holds the user's
credentials, unless you specify --authenticationDatabase.
See userSource, /reference/privilege-documents and /reference/user-privileges for more information
about delegated authentication in MongoDB.
--authenticationMechanism <name>
New in version 2.4.
Specifies the authentication mechanism. By default, the authentication mechanism is MONGODB-CR,
which is the MongoDB challenge/response authentication mechanism. In the MongoDB Subscriber
Edition, mongostat also includes support for GSSAPI to handle Kerberos authentication.
See /tutorial/control-access-to-mongodb-with-kerberos-authentication for more information about
Kerberos authentication.
--noheaders
Disables the output of column or field names.
--rowcount <number>, -n <number>
Controls the number of rows to output. Use in conjunction with the sleeptime argument to control
the duration of a mongostat operation.
Unless --rowcount is specified, mongostat will return an infinite number of rows (e.g. value of
0.)
--http Configures mongostat to collect data using the HTTP interface rather than a raw database
connection.
--discover
With this option mongostat discovers and reports on statistics from all members of a replica set
or sharded cluster. When connected to any member of a replica set, --discover all non-hidden
members of the replica set. When connected to a mongos, mongostat will return data from all shards
in the cluster. If a replica set provides a shard in the sharded cluster, mongostat will report on
non-hidden members of that replica set.
The mongostat --host option is not required but potentially useful in this case.
--all Configures mongostat to return all optional fields.
<sleeptime>
The final argument is the length of time, in seconds, that mongostat waits in between calls. By
default mongostat returns one call every second.
mongostat returns values that reflect the operations over a 1 second period. For values of
<sleeptime> greater than 1, mongostat averages data to reflect average operations per second.
FIELDS
mongostat returns values that reflect the operations over a 1 second period. When mongostat <sleeptime>
has a value greater than 1, mongostat averages the statistics to reflect average operations per second.
mongostat outputs the following fields:
inserts
The number of objects inserted into the database per second. If followed by an asterisk (e.g. *),
the datum refers to a replicated operation.
query The number of query operations per second.
update The number of update operations per second.
delete The number of delete operations per second.
getmore
The number of get more (i.e. cursor batch) operations per second.
command
The number of commands per second. On slave and secondary systems, mongostat presents two values
separated by a pipe character (e.g. |), in the form of local|replicated commands.
flushes
The number of fsync operations per second.
mapped The total amount of data mapped in megabytes. This is the total data size at the time of the last
mongostat call.
size The amount of (virtual) memory in megabytes used by the process at the time of the last mongostat
call.
res The amount of (resident) memory in megabytes used by the process at the time of the last mongostat
call.
faults Changed in version 2.1.
The number of page faults per second.
Before version 2.1 this value was only provided for MongoDB instances running on Linux hosts.
locked The percent of time in a global write lock.
Changed in version 2.2: The locked db field replaces the locked % field to more appropriate data
regarding the database specific locks in version 2.2.
locked db
New in version 2.2.
The percent of time in the per-database context-specific lock. mongostat will report the database
that has spent the most time since the last mongostat call with a write lock.
This value represents the amount of time that the listed database spent in a locked state combined
with the time that the mongod spent in the global lock. Because of this, and the sampling method,
you may see some values greater than 100%.
idx miss
The percent of index access attempts that required a page fault to load a btree node. This is a
sampled value.
qr The length of the queue of clients waiting to read data from the MongoDB instance.
qw The length of the queue of clients waiting to write data from the MongoDB instance.
ar The number of active clients performing read operations.
aw The number of active clients performing write operations.
netIn The amount of network traffic, in bytes, received by the MongoDB instance.
This includes traffic from mongostat itself.
netOut The amount of network traffic, in bytes, sent by the MongoDB instance.
This includes traffic from mongostat itself.
conn The total number of open connections.
set The name, if applicable, of the replica set.
repl The replication status of the node.
┌───────┬──────────────────┐
│ Value │ Replication Type │
├───────┼──────────────────┤
│ M │ master │
├───────┼──────────────────┤
│ SEC │ secondary │
├───────┼──────────────────┤
│ REC │ recovering │
├───────┼──────────────────┤
│ UNK │ unknown │
├───────┼──────────────────┤
│ SLV │ slave │
└───────┴──────────────────┘
USAGE
In the first example, mongostat will return data every second for 20 seconds. mongostat collects data
from the mongod instance running on the localhost interface on port 27017. All of the following
invocations produce identical behavior:
mongostat --rowcount 20 1
mongostat --rowcount 20
mongostat -n 20 1
mongostat -n 20
In the next example, mongostat returns data every 5 minutes (or 300 seconds) for as long as the program
runs. mongostat collects data from the mongod instance running on the localhost interface on port 27017.
Both of the following invocations produce identical behavior.
mongostat --rowcount 0 300
mongostat -n 0 300
mongostat 300
In the following example, mongostat returns data every 5 minutes for an hour (12 times.) mongostat
collects data from the mongod instance running on the localhost interface on port 27017. Both of the
following invocations produce identical behavior.
mongostat --rowcount 12 300
mongostat -n 12 300
In many cases, using the --discover will help provide a more complete snapshot of the state of an entire
group of machines. If a mongos process connected to a sharded cluster is running on port 27017 of the
local machine, you can use the following form to return statistics from all members of the cluster:
mongostat --discover
AUTHOR
MongoDB Documentation Project
COPYRIGHT
2011-2013, 10gen, Inc.
2.2.3 March 14, 2013 MONGOSTAT(1)