Querying connection information in MongoDB

As with all other database platforms, daily administration and troubleshooting of MongoDB often begins with analyzing database activity. It can be helpful to see all connections from within MongoDB, which you can do by running:

db.$cmd.sys.inprog.findOne({$all:1}); or db.currentOp(true);

where the “true” makes the command include idle connections.

Managing High Volumes of Connection Data

But often there's so many connections that unless you capture the output in a script file or some similar thing, it's kind of useless. Thanks to a hint given by Scott Hernandez in the mongodb-user forum, we can use the line:

db.currentOp(true).inprog.forEach(function(o){if( ) printjson(o)});

to show a subset that is more manageable.

Filtering Connections by Application Server or ConnectionID

For instance, we might want to show all connections from a particular application server:

db.currentOp(true).inprog.forEach(function(o){if(o.client.indexOf(“10.0.1.77”) != -1 ) printjson(o)});

Or from the MongoDB logs we’ll see a particular connectionId and want to know where it came from:

db.currentOp(true).inprog.forEach(function(o){if(o.connectionId == 8606 ) printjson(o)});

Analyzing Connection Metadata Output

This will then show all the connection info for that connectionId:

{    "opid" : 7117752,    "active" : false,    "lockType" : "read",    "waitingForLock" : false,    "op" : "query",    "ns" : "player_data.player_answerchoice",    "query" : {      "$query" : {        "poll_id" : ObjectId("4f58e08db3e93217c2000008")      }    },    "client" : "10.0.1.77:59542",    "desc" : "conn",    "threadId" : "0x49e31940",    "connectionId" : 8606,    "numYields" : 0  } 

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