collStats
Definition
collStatsDeprecated since version 6.2.
In versions 6.2 and later use the
$collStatsaggregation stage.The
collStatscommand returns a variety of storage statistics for a given collection.Use the
$collStatsaggregation stage instead of thecollStatscommand and itsmongoshhelper methoddb.collection.stats().Tip
In
mongosh, this command can also be run through thestats()helper method. Specific fields in thecollStatsoutput can be accessed using thedataSize(),estimatedDocumentCount(),isCapped(),latencyStats(),storageSize(),totalIndexSize(), andtotalSize()helper methods.Helper methods are convenient for
mongoshusers, but they may not return the same level of information as database commands. In cases where the convenience is not needed or the additional return fields are required, use the database command.To run
collStats, use thedb.runCommand( { <command> } )method.
Compatibility
This command is available in deployments hosted in the following environments:
MongoDB Atlas: The fully managed service for MongoDB deployments in the cloud
Note
This command is supported in all MongoDB Atlas clusters. For information on Atlas support for all commands, see Unsupported Commands.
MongoDB Enterprise: The subscription-based, self-managed version of MongoDB
MongoDB Community: The source-available, free-to-use, and self-managed version of MongoDB
Syntax
The command has the following syntax:
db.runCommand( { collStats: <string>, scale: <int> } )
Command Fields
The command takes the following fields:
Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
collStats | string | The name of the target collection. |
scale | int | Optional. The scale factor for the various size data (with the exception of
those sizes that specify the unit of measurement in the field name). The
value defaults to 1 to return size data in bytes. To display
kilobytes rather than bytes, specify a If you specify a non-integer scale factor, MongoDB uses the integer
part of the specified factor. For example, if you specify a scale
factor of The scale factor rounds the affected size values to whole numbers. |
Behavior
Redaction
When using Queryable Encryption,
$collStats output redacts certain information for encrypted
collections:
The output omits
"queryExecStats"The output omits
"latencyStats"The output redacts
"WiredTiger", if present, to include only theurlfield.
Scaled Sizes
Unless otherwise specified by the metric name (such as "bytes
currently in the cache"), values related to size are displayed in
bytes and can be overridden by scale.
The scale factor rounds the affected size values to whole numbers.
Accuracy after Unexpected Shutdown
After an unclean shutdown of a mongod using the Wired Tiger storage engine, size statistics reported by
collStats may be inaccurate.
The amount of drift depends on the number of insert, update, or delete
operations performed between the last checkpoint and the unclean shutdown. Checkpoints
usually occur every 60 seconds. However, mongod instances running
with non-default --syncdelay settings may have more or less frequent
checkpoints.
Run validate on each collection on the mongod
to restore statistics after an unclean shutdown.
After an unclean shutdown:
In-Progress Indexes
collStats includes information on indexes currently being built. For details, see:
Replica Set Member State Restriction
To run on a replica set member, collStats operations require the member
to be in PRIMARY or SECONDARY state. If the member
is in another state, such as STARTUP2, the
operation errors.
Non-Existent Collections
If you run collStats for a non-existent collection, then
depending on your database implementation, collStats might
return 0 values in the output fields instead of returning an error.
For example:
db.runCommand( { collStats : "nonExistentCollection" } )
Example output with 0 values in the fields:
{ ns: 'test.nonExistentCollection', size: 0, count: 0, ... }
Example
The following operation runs the collStats command on the
restaurants collection, specifying a scale of 1024 bytes:
db.runCommand( { collStats : "restaurants", scale: 1024 } )
The following document provides a representation of the
collStats output. Depending on the configuration of your
collection and the storage engine, the output fields may vary.
{ "ns" : <string>, "size" : <number>, "timeseries" : { "bucketsNs" : <bucketName>, "bucketCount" : <number>, "avgBucketSize" : <number>, "numBucketInserts" : <number>, "numBucketUpdates" : <number>, "numBucketsOpenedDueToMetadata" : <number>, "numBucketsClosedDueToCount" : <number>, "numBucketsClosedDueToSize" : <number>, "numBucketsClosedDueToTimeForward" : <number>, "numBucketsClosedDueToTimeBackward" : <number>, "numBucketsClosedDueToMemoryThreshold" : <number>, "numCommits" : <number>, "numWaits" : <number>, "numMeasurementsCommitted" : <number>, "avgNumMeasurementsPerCommit": <number> }, "count" : <number>, "avgObjSize" : <number>, "numOrphanDocs" : <number>, // Available starting in MongoDB 6.0 "storageSize" : <number>, "freeStorageSize" : <number>, "capped" : <boolean>, "max" : <number>, "maxSize" : <number>, "wiredTiger" : { "metadata" : { "formatVersion" : <num> }, "creationString" : <string> "type" : <string>, "uri" : <string>, "LSM" : { "bloom filter false positives" : <number>, "bloom filter hits" : <number>, "bloom filter misses" : <number>, "bloom filter pages evicted from cache" : <number>, "bloom filter pages read into cache" : <number>, "bloom filters in the LSM tree" : <number>, "total size of bloom filters" : <number>, "chunks in the LSM tree" : <number>, "highest merge generation in the LSM tree" : <number>, "queries that could have benefited from a Bloom filter that did not exist" : <number>, "sleep for LSM checkpoint throttle" : <number>, "sleep for LSM merge throttle" : <number> "total size of bloom filters" : <number> }, "block-manager" : { "allocations requiring file extension" : <number>, "blocks allocated" : <number>, "blocks freed" : <number>, "checkpoint size" : <number>, "file allocation unit size" : <number>, "file bytes available for reuse" : <number>, "file magic number" : <number>, "file major version number" : <number>, "file size in bytes" : <number>, "minor version number" : <number> }, "btree" : { "btree checkpoint generation" : <number>, "column-store fixed-size leaf pages" : <number>, "column-store internal pages" : <number>, "column-store variable-size RLE encoded values" : <number>, "column-store variable-size deleted values" : <number>, "column-store variable-size leaf pages" : <number>, "fixed-record size" : <number>, "maximum internal page key size" : <number>, "maximum internal page size" : <number>, "maximum leaf page key size" : <number>, "maximum leaf page size" : <number>, "maximum leaf page value size" : <number>, "maximum tree depth" : <number>, "number of key/value pairs" : <number>, "overflow pages" : <number>, "pages rewritten by compaction" : <number>, "row-store empty values" : <number>, "row-store internal pages" : <number>, "row-store leaf pages" : <number> }, "cache" : { "bytes currently in the cache" : <number>, "bytes dirty in the cache cumulative" : <number>, "bytes read into cache" : <number>, "bytes written from cache" : <number>, "checkpoint blocked page eviction" : <number>, "data source pages selected for eviction unable to be evicted" : <number>, "eviction walk passes of a file" : <number>, "eviction walk target pages histogram - 0-9" : <number>, "eviction walk target pages histogram - 10-31" : <number>, "eviction walk target pages histogram - 128 and higher" : <number>, "eviction walk target pages histogram - 32-63" : <number>, "eviction walk target pages histogram - 64-128" : <number>, "eviction walks abandoned" : <number>, "eviction walks gave up because they restarted their walk twice" : <number>, "eviction walks gave up because they saw too many pages and found no candidates" : <number>, "eviction walks gave up because they saw too many pages and found too few candidates" : <number>, "eviction walks reached end of tree" : <number>, "eviction walks started from root of tree" : <number>, "eviction walks started from saved location in tree" : <number>, "hazard pointer blocked page eviction" : <number>, "in-memory page passed criteria to be split" : <number>, "in-memory page splits" : <number>, "internal pages evicted" : <number>, "internal pages split during eviction" : <number>, "leaf pages split during eviction" : <number>, "modified pages evicted" : <number>, "overflow pages read into cache" : <number>, "page split during eviction deepened the tree" : <number>, "page written requiring cache overflow records" : <number>, "pages read into cache" : <number>, "pages read into cache after truncate" : <number>, "pages read into cache after truncate in prepare state" : <number>, "pages read into cache requiring cache overflow entries" : <number>, "pages requested from the cache" : <number>, "pages seen by eviction walk" : <number>, "pages written from cache" : <number>, "pages written requiring in-memory restoration" : <number>, "tracked dirty bytes in the cache" : <number>, "unmodified pages evicted" : <number> }, "cache_walk" : { "Average difference between current eviction generation when the page was last considered" : <number>, "Average on-disk page image size seen" : <number>, "Average time in cache for pages that have been visited by the eviction server" : <number>, "Average time in cache for pages that have not been visited by the eviction server" : <number>, "Clean pages currently in cache" : <number>, "Current eviction generation" : <number>, "Dirty pages currently in cache" : <number>, "Entries in the root page" : <number>, "Internal pages currently in cache" : <number>, "Leaf pages currently in cache" : <number>, "Maximum difference between current eviction generation when the page was last considered" : <number>, "Maximum page size seen" : <number>, "Minimum on-disk page image size seen" : <number>, "Number of pages never visited by eviction server" : <number>, "On-disk page image sizes smaller than a single allocation unit" : <number>, "Pages created in memory and never written" : <number>, "Pages currently queued for eviction" : <number>, "Pages that could not be queued for eviction" : <number>, "Refs skipped during cache traversal" : <number>, "Size of the root page" : <number>, "Total number of pages currently in cache" : <number> }, "compression" : { "compressed page maximum internal page size prior to compression" : <number>, "compressed page maximum leaf page size prior to compression " : <number>, "compressed pages read" : <number>, "compressed pages written" : <number>, "page written failed to compress" : <number>, "page written was too small to compress" : 1 }, "cursor" : { "bulk loaded cursor insert calls" : <number>, "cache cursors reuse count" : <number>, "close calls that result in cache" : <number>, "create calls" : <number>, "insert calls" : <number>, "insert key and value bytes" : <number>, "modify" : <number>, "modify key and value bytes affected" : <number>, "modify value bytes modified" : <number>, "next calls" : <number>, "open cursor count" : <number>, "operation restarted" : <number>, "prev calls" : <number>, "remove calls" : <number>, "remove key bytes removed" : <number>, "reserve calls" : <number>, "reset calls" : <number>, "search calls" : <number>, "search near calls" : <number>, "truncate calls" : <number>, "update calls" : <number>, "update key and value bytes" : <number>, "update value size change" : <num> }, "reconciliation" : { "dictionary matches" : <number>, "fast-path pages deleted" : <number>, "internal page key bytes discarded using suffix compression" : <number>, "internal page multi-block writes" : <number>, "internal-page overflow keys" : <number>, "leaf page key bytes discarded using prefix compression" : <number>, "leaf page multi-block writes" : <number>, "leaf-page overflow keys" : <number>, "maximum blocks required for a page" : <number>, "overflow values written" : <number>, "page checksum matches" : <number>, "page reconciliation calls" : <number>, "page reconciliation calls for eviction" : <number>, "pages deleted" : <number> }, "session" : { "object compaction" : <number>, }, "transaction" : { "update conflicts" : <number> } }, "nindexes" : <number>, "indexDetails" : { "_id_" : { "metadata" : { "formatVersion" : <number> }, ... }, ... }, "indexBuilds" : [ <string>, ], "totalIndexSize" : <number>, "totalSize" : <number>, "indexSizes" : { "_id_" : <number>, "<indexName>" : <number>, ... }, "scaleFactor" : <number> "ok" : <number> }
Output
collStats.nsThe namespace of the current collection, which follows the format
[database].[collection].
collStats.sizeThe total uncompressed size in memory of all records in a collection. The
sizedoes not include the size of any indexes associated with the collection, which thetotalIndexSizefield reports.The
scaleargument affects this value. Data compression does not affect this value.
collStats.timeseriestimeseriesappears when you run thecollStatscommand on a time series collection.This document contains data for internal diagnostic use.
collStats.avgObjSizeThe average size of an object in the collection. The
scaleargument does not affect this value.
collStats.numOrphanDocsThe number of orphaned documents in the collection.
New in version 6.0.
collStats.storageSizeThe total amount of storage allocated to this collection for document storage. The
scaleargument affects this value.If collection data is compressed (which is the
default for WiredTiger), the storage size reflects the compressed size and may be smaller than the value forcollStats.size.storageSizedoes not include index size. SeetotalIndexSizefor index sizing.
collStats.freeStorageSizeUnavailable for the In-Memory Storage Engine
The amount of storage available for reuse. The
scaleargument affects this value.The field is only available if storage is available for reuse (i.e. greater than zero).
collStats.nindexesThe number of indexes on the collection. All collections have at least one index on the _id field.
nindexesincludes indexes currently being built in its count.
collStats.indexDetailsA document that reports data from the WiredTiger storage engine for each index in the collection. Other storage engines will return an empty document.
The fields in this document are the names of the indexes, while the values themselves are documents that contain statistics for the index provided by the storage engine. These statistics are for internal diagnostic use.
indexDetailsincludes details on indexes currently being built.
collStats.indexBuildsAn array that contains the names of the indexes that are currently being built on the collection. Once an index build completes, the index does not appear in the
indexBuilds.
collStats.totalIndexSizeSum of the disk space used by all indexes. The
scaleargument affects this value.If an index uses prefix compression (which is the
default for WiredTiger), the returned size reflects the compressed size for any such indexes when calculating the total.totalIndexSizeincludes indexes currently being built in the total size.
collStats.totalSizeThe sum of the
storageSizeandtotalIndexSize. Thescaleargument affects this value.
collStats.indexSizesThis field specifies the key and size of every existing index on the collection. The
scaleargument affects this value.If an index uses prefix compression (which is the
default for WiredTiger), the returned size reflects the compressed size.indexSizesincludes the sizes of indexes currently being built.
collStats.scaleFactorThe
scalevalue used by the command.If you had specified a non-integer scale factor, MongoDB uses the integer part of the specified factor. For example, if you specify a scale factor of
1023.999, MongoDB uses1023as the scale factor.
collStats.cappedThis field will be "true" if the collection is capped.
collStats.maxShows the maximum number of documents that may be present in a capped collection.
collStats.maxSizeShows the maximum size of a capped collection.
collStats.wiredTigerwiredTigeronly appears when using the WiredTiger storage engine. When using Queryable Encryption, WiredTiger data is redacted to only theurlfield.This document contains data reported directly by the WiredTiger engine and other data for internal diagnostic use.
collStats.inMemoryinMemoryonly appears when using the in-memory storage engine.This document contains data reported directly by the storage engine and other data for internal diagnostic use.