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Definition¶

collStats¶

The collStats command returns a variety of storage statistics for a given collection.

To run collStats, use the db.runCommand( { <command> } ) method.

The collStats command has the following syntax:

{
   collStats: <string>,
   scale: <int>,
   verbose: <boolean>
}

The command takes the following fields:

Field Type Description

collStats

string

The name of the target collection.

If the collection does not exist, collStats returns an error message.

scale

int

Optional. The scale used in the output to display the sizes of items. By default, output displays sizes in bytes. To display kilobytes rather than bytes, specify a scale value of 1024.

The scale factor rounds values to whole numbers.

verbose

boolean

Optional. When true, collStats increases reporting for the MMAPv1 Storage Engine.

Defaults to false.

Behavior¶

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 to restore the correct statistics after an unclean shutdown.

Example¶

The following operation runs the collStats command on the restaurant collection, specifying a scale of 1024 bytes:

db.runCommand( { collStats : "restaurant", 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 include a subset of the fields.

{
  "ns" : <string>,
  "count" : <number>,
  "size" : <number>,
  "avgObjSize" : <number>,
  "storageSize" : <number>,
  "capped" : <boolean>,
  "max" : <number>,
  "maxSize" :  <number>,
  "wiredTiger" : {
     "metadata" : {
        "formatVersion" : <num>
     },
     "creationString" : <string>
     "type" :  <string>,
     "uri" :  <string>,
     "LSM" : {
        "bloom filters in the LSM tree" : <number>,
        "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>,
        "total size of bloom filters" : <number>,
        "sleep for LSM checkpoint throttle" : <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 merge throttle" : <number>
     },
     "block-manager" : {
        "file allocation unit size" : <number>,
        "blocks allocated" : <number>,
        "checkpoint size" : <number>,
        "allocations requiring file extension" : <number>,
        "blocks freed" : <number>,
        "file magic number" : <number>,
        "file major version number" : <number>,
        "minor version number" : <number>,
        "file bytes available for reuse" : <number>,
        "file size in bytes" : <number>
     },
     "btree" : {
        "btree checkpoint generation" : <number>,
        "column-store variable-size deleted values" : <number>,
        "column-store fixed-size leaf pages" : <number>,
        "column-store internal pages" : <number>,
        "column-store variable-size leaf pages" : <number>,
        "pages rewritten by compaction" : <number>,
        "number of key/value pairs" : <number>,
        "fixed-record size" : <number>,
        "maximum tree depth" : <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>,
        "overflow pages" : <number>,
        "row-store internal pages" : <number>,
        "row-store leaf pages" : <number>
     },
     "cache" : {
        "bytes read into cache" : <number>,
        "bytes written from cache" : <number>,
        "checkpoint blocked page eviction" : <number>,
        "unmodified pages evicted" : <number>,
        "page split during eviction deepened the tree" : <number>,
        "modified pages evicted" : <number>,
        "data source pages selected for eviction unable to be evicted" : <number>,
        "hazard pointer blocked page eviction" : <number>,
        "internal pages evicted" : <number>,
        "pages split during eviction" : <number>,
        "in-memory page splits" : <number>,
        "overflow values cached in memory" : <number>,
        "pages read into cache" : <number>,
        "overflow pages read into cache" : <number>,
        "pages written from cache" : 2
     },
     "compression" : {
        "raw compression call failed, no additional data available" : <number>,
        "raw compression call failed, additional data available" : <number>,
        "raw compression call succeeded" : <number>,
        "compressed pages read" : <number>,
        "compressed pages written" : <number>,
        "page written failed to compress" : <number>,
        "page written was too small to compress" : 1
     },
     "cursor" : {
        "create calls" : <number>,
        "insert calls" : <number>,
        "bulk-loaded cursor-insert calls" : <number>,
        "cursor-insert key and value bytes inserted" : <number>,
        "next calls" : <number>,
        "prev calls" : <number>,
        "remove calls" : <number>,
        "cursor-remove key bytes removed" : <number>,
        "reset calls" : <number>,
        "search calls" : <number>,
        "search near calls" : <number>,
        "update calls" : <number>,
        "cursor-update value bytes updated" : <number>
     },
     "reconciliation" : {
        "dictionary matches" : <number>,
        "internal page multi-block writes" : <number>,
        "leaf page multi-block writes" : <number>,
        "maximum blocks required for a page" : <number>,
        "internal-page overflow keys" : <number>,
        "leaf-page overflow keys" : <number>,
        "overflow values written" : <number>,
        "pages deleted" : <number>,
        "page checksum matches" : <number>,
        "page reconciliation calls" : <number>,
        "page reconciliation calls for eviction" : <number>,
        "leaf page key bytes discarded using prefix compression" : <number>,
        "internal page key bytes discarded using suffix compression" : <number>
     },
     "session" : {
        "object compaction" : <number>,
        "open cursor count" : <number>
     },
     "transaction" : {
        "update conflicts" : <number>
     }
  },
  "nindexes" : <number>,         // number of indexes
  "totalIndexSize" : <number>,   // total index size in bytes
  "indexSizes" : {                // size of specific indexes in bytes
          "_id_" : <number>,
          "username" : <number>
  },
  // ...
  "ok" : <number>
}

Output¶

collStats.ns¶: The namespace of the current collection, which follows the format [database].[collection].

collStats.count¶: The number of objects or documents in this collection.

collStats.size¶

The total size in memory of all records in a collection. This value does not include the record header, which is 16 bytes per record, but does include the record’s padding. Additionally size does not include the size of any indexes associated with the collection, which the totalIndexSize field reports.

The scale argument affects this value.

collStats.avgObjSize¶: The average size of an object in the collection (plus any padding). The scale argument does not affect this value.

collStats.storageSize¶

The total amount of storage allocated to this collection for document storage. The scale argument affects this value.

storageSize does not include index size. See totalIndexSize for index sizing.

For MMAPv1, storageSize will not decrease as you remove or shrink documents.

collStats.numExtents¶: The total number of contiguously allocated data file regions. Only present when using the MMAPv1 storage engine.

collStats.nindexes¶: The number of indexes on the collection. All collections have at least one index on the _id field.

collStats.lastExtentSize¶: The size of the last extent allocated. The scale argument affects this value. Only present when using the mmapv1 storage engine.

collStats.paddingFactor¶: Deprecated since version 3.0.0: paddingFactor is no longer used in 3.0.0, and remains hard coded to 1.0 for compatibility only.

paddingFactor only appears when using the mmapv1 storage engine.

collStats.userFlags¶

A number that indicates the user-set flags on the collection. userFlags only appears when using the mmapv1 storage engine.

Changed in version 3.0.0: userFlags reports on the usePowerOf2Sizes and the noPadding flags.

0 corresponds to usePowerOf2Sizes flag set to false and noPadding flag set to false.
1 corresponds to usePowerOf2Sizes flag set to true and noPadding flag set to false.
2 corresponds to usePowerOf2Sizes flag set to false and noPadding flag set to true.
3 corresponds to usePowerOf2Sizes flag set to true and noPadding flag set to true.

Note

MongoDB 3.0 ignores the usePowerOf2Sizes flag. See collMod and db.createCollection() for more information.

collStats.totalIndexSize¶: The total size of all indexes. The scale argument affects this value.

collStats.indexSizes¶: This field specifies the key and size of every existing index on the collection. The scale argument affects this value.

collStats.capped¶: This field will be “true” if the collection is capped.

collStats.max¶: Shows the maximum number of documents that may be present in a capped collection.

collStats.maxSize¶: Shows the maximum size of a capped collection.

collStats.wiredTiger¶

New in version 3.0.0.

wiredTiger only appears when using the WiredTiger storage engine.

This document contains data reported directly by the WiredTiger engine and other data for internal diagnostic use.

collStats.indexDetails¶

New in version 3.0.0.

A 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.

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