Aggregation Pipeline Builder Settings

You can adjust your Atlas Aggregation Pipeline Builder settings to customize your aggregation experience and improve pipeline performance.

Settings

To view and change your aggregation pipeline settings:

If it's not already displayed, select the organization that contains your project from the Organizations menu in the navigation bar.
If it's not already displayed, select your project from the Projects menu in the navigation bar.
In the sidebar, click Data Explorer under the Database heading.
The Data Explorer displays.

IMPORTANT: You can also click the name of a cluster to open the Cluster sidebar, and then click Data Explorer under the Shortcuts heading.

Select the collection.
Click the Aggregations tab.
Click the gear icon at the upper right of the pipeline builder to open the Settings panel.

Option	Description	Default Value
Comment Mode	When enabled, adds helper comments to each stage.	Enabled
Number of Preview Documents	Sets number of documents to show in the preview.	10
Limit	Specifies the number of documents passed to `$group`, `$bucket`, and `$bucketAuto` pipeline stages. Lower limits improve pipeline run time but might result in missing documents. This setting is only applied to document previews. It is not applied when the pipeline is run.	100000

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