MongoDB Server Parameters for a Self-Managed Deployment

Authentication Parameters

authenticationMechanisms

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Specifies the list of authentication mechanisms the server accepts. Set this to one or more of the following values. If you specify multiple values, use a comma-separated list and no spaces. For descriptions of the authentication mechanisms, see Authentication on Self-Managed Deployments.

Value	Description
SCRAM-SHA-1	RFC 5802 standard Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism using the SHA-1 hash function.
SCRAM-SHA-256	RFC 7677 standard Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism using the SHA-256 hash function.
MONGODB-X509	MongoDB TLS/SSL certificate authentication.
GSSAPI (Kerberos)	External authentication using Kerberos. This mechanism is available only in MongoDB Enterprise.
PLAIN (LDAP SASL)	External authentication using LDAP. You can also use PLAIN for authenticating in-database users. PLAIN transmits passwords in plain text. This mechanism is available only in MongoDB Enterprise.
MONGODB-OIDC	OpenID Connect is an authentication layer built on top of OAuth2. This mechanism is available only in MongoDB Enterprise.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, to specify both PLAIN and SCRAM-SHA-256 as the authentication mechanisms, use the following command:

mongod --setParameter authenticationMechanisms=PLAIN,SCRAM-SHA-256 --auth

awsSTSRetryCount

Changed in version 7.0: (Also starting in 6.0.7 and 5.0.18)

In previous versions, AWS IAM authentication retried only when the server returned an HTTP 500 error.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 2

For MongoDB deployments using AWS IAM credentials or AWS IAM environment variables.

Maximum number of AWS IAM authentication retries after a connection failure.

The following example sets awsSTSRetryCount to 15 retries:

mongod --setParameter awsSTSRetryCount=15

Alternatively, the following examples uses the setParameter command within mongosh:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, awsSTSRetryCount: 15 } )

clusterAuthMode

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Set the clusterAuthMode to either sendX509 or x509. Useful during rolling upgrade to use x509 for membership authentication to minimize downtime.

For more information about TLS/SSL and MongoDB, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL and TLS/SSL Configuration for Clients .

This parameter is only available at runtime. To set the parameter, use the setParameter command.

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, clusterAuthMode: "sendX509" } )

enableLocalhostAuthBypass

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: true

Specify 0 or false to disable localhost authentication bypass. Enabled by default.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

See Localhost Exception in Self-Managed Deployments for more information.

enforceUserClusterSeparation

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Set to false to disable the O/OU/DC check when clusterAuthMode is keyFile in your configuration file. This allows clients possessing member certificates to authenticate as users stored in the $external database. The server won't start if clusterAuthMode isn't keyFile in your configuration file.

To set the enforceUserClusterSeparation parameter to false, run the following command during startup:

mongod --setParameter enforceUserClusterSeparation=false

If you set the enforceUserClusterSeparation parameter to false, the server doesn't distinguish between client certificates, which applications use to authenticate, and intra-cluster certificates, which have privileged access. This has no effect if your clusterAuthMode is keyFile. However, if your clusterAuthMode is x509, user certificates that use the allowed scheme are conflated with cluster certificates and granted privileged access.

Your existing certificates are granted internal privileges if you do the following:

1. Create a user, with a name allowed by this parameter.

2. Set the enforceUserClusterSeparation parameter to false.

3. Set clusterAuthMode to x509.

You must not upgrade from keyFile to x509 without validating that you've removed users with elevated privileges that the enforceUserClusterSeparation flag allowed you to create.

KeysRotationIntervalSec

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 7776000 seconds (90 days)

Specifies the number of seconds for which an HMAC signing key is valid before rotating to the next one. This parameter is intended primarily to facilitate authentication testing.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

ldapForceMultiThreadMode

Available for mongod only.

Default: false

Enables the performance of concurrent LDAP operations.

Note

Only if you are certain that your instance of libldap is safe to use in this mode, enable this flag. You may experience crashes of the MongoDB process if the libldap version you are using is not thread safe.

You must use ldapForceMultiThreadMode to use LDAP connection pool. To enable LDAP connection pool, set ldapForceMultiThreadMode and ldapUseConnectionPool to true.

Tip

If you have any concerns regarding your MongoDB version, OS version or libldap version, please contact MongoDB Support.

ldapQueryPassword

Available for mongod only.

Type: string

The password used to bind to an LDAP server. You must use ldapQueryUser with this parameter.

If not set, mongod or mongos does not attempt to bind to the LDAP server.

ldapQueryUser

Available for mongod only.

Type: string

The user that binds to an LDAP server. You must use ldapQueryPassword with this parameter.

If not set, mongod or mongos does not attempt to bind to the LDAP server.

ldapRetryCount

New in version 6.1.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 0

For MongoDB deployments using LDAP Authorization on Self-Managed Deployments.

Number of operation retries by the server LDAP manager after a network error.

For example, the following sets ldapRetryCount to 3 seconds:

mongod --ldapRetryCount=3

Or, if using the setParameter command within mongosh:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ldapRetryCount: 3 } )

ldapUserCacheInvalidationInterval

Changed in version 5.2.

Available for mongod only.

Note

Starting in MongoDB 5.2, the update interval for cached user information retrieved from an LDAP server depends on ldapShouldRefreshUserCacheEntries:

• If true, use ldapUserCacheRefreshInterval.

• If false, use ldapUserCacheInvalidationInterval.

For use with MongoDB deployments using LDAP Authorization on Self-Managed Deployments.

The interval (in seconds) that the mongod instance waits between external user cache flushes. After MongoDB flushes the external user cache, MongoDB reacquires authorization data from the LDAP server the next time an LDAP-authorized user issues an operation.

Increasing the value specified increases the amount of time MongoDB and the LDAP server can be out of sync, but reduces the load on the LDAP server. Conversely, decreasing the value specified decreases the time MongoDB and the LDAP server can be out of sync while increasing the load on the LDAP server.

Defaults to 30 seconds.

ldapUserCacheRefreshInterval

New in version 5.2.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 30 seconds

Note

Starting in MongoDB 5.2, the update interval for cached user information retrieved from an LDAP server depends on ldapShouldRefreshUserCacheEntries:

• If true, use ldapUserCacheRefreshInterval.

• If false, use ldapUserCacheInvalidationInterval.

For MongoDB deployments using LDAP Authorization on Self-Managed Deployments.

The interval in seconds that mongod waits before refreshing the cached user information from the LDAP server.

The maximum interval is 86,400 seconds (24 hours).

For example, the following sets ldapUserCacheRefreshInterval to 4000 seconds:

mongod --setParameter ldapUserCacheRefreshInterval=4000

Or, if using the setParameter command within mongosh:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ldapUserCacheRefreshInterval: 4000 } )

ldapUserCacheStalenessInterval

New in version 5.2.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 90 seconds

For MongoDB deployments using LDAP Authorization on Self-Managed Deployments.

The interval in seconds that mongod retains the cached LDAP user information after the last cache refresh.

If more than ldapUserCacheStalenessInterval seconds elapse without a successful refresh of the user information from the LDAP server, then mongod:

• Invalidates the cached LDAP user information.

• Is unable to authenticate new sessions for LDAP users until mongod connects to the LDAP server and authorizes the LDAP user.

• Authorizes any existing sessions that use previously authenticated LDAP users if mongod is unable to connect to the LDAP server. When mongod reconnects to the LDAP server, mongod ensures the LDAP users are correctly authorized.

The maximum interval is 86,400 seconds (24 hours).

For example, the following sets ldapUserCacheStalenessInterval to 4000 seconds:

mongod --setParameter ldapUserCacheStalenessInterval=4000

Or, if using the setParameter command within mongosh:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ldapUserCacheStalenessInterval: 4000 } )

ldapUseConnectionPool

Available for mongod only.

Specifies whether MongoDB should use connection pooling when connecting to the LDAP server for authentication/authorization.

MongoDB uses the following default values:

• true on Windows.

• true on Linux where MongoDB Enterprise binaries are linked against libldap_r.

• false on Linux where MongoDB Enterprise binaries are linked against libldap.

You can only set ldapUseConnectionPool during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolUseLatencyForHostPriority

Available for mongod only.

Default: true

A boolean that determines whether the LDAP connection pool (see ldapUseConnectionPool) should use latency of the LDAP servers to determine the connection order (from lowest latency to highest).

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolUseLatencyForHostPriority during start-up, and cannot change this setting during run time with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolMinimumConnectionsPerHost

Available for mongod only.

Default: 1

The minimum number of connections to keep open to each LDAP server.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolMinimumConnectionsPerHost during start-up, and cannot change this setting during run time with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolMaximumConnectionsPerHost

Available for mongod only.

Changed starting in MongoDB versions 5.0.9 and 6.0.0 Changed default value to 2147483647. In previous versions, the default is unset.

Default: 2147483647

The maximum number of connections to keep open to each LDAP server.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolMaximumConnectionsPerHost during start-up, and cannot change this setting during run time with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolMaximumConnectionsInProgressPerHost

Available for mongod only.

Changed starting in MongoDB versions 5.0.9 and 6.0.0 Changed default value to 2. In previous versions, the default is unset.

Default: 2

The maximum number of in-progress connect operations to each LDAP server.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolMaximumConnectionsInProgressPerHost during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolHostRefreshIntervalMillis

Available for mongod only.

Default: 60000

The number of milliseconds in-between health checks of the pooled LDAP connections.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolHostRefreshIntervalMillis during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

ldapConnectionPoolIdleHostTimeoutSecs

Available for mongod only.

Default: 300

The maximum number of seconds that the pooled connections to an LDAP server can remain idle before being closed.

You can only set ldapConnectionPoolIdleHostTimeoutSecs during start-up, and cannot change this setting with the setParameter database command.

ldapShouldRefreshUserCacheEntries

New in version 5.2.

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: true

For MongoDB deployments using LDAP Authorization on Self-Managed Deployments.

Starting in MongoDB 5.2, the update interval for cached user information retrieved from an LDAP server depends on ldapShouldRefreshUserCacheEntries:

• If true, use ldapUserCacheRefreshInterval.

• If false, use ldapUserCacheInvalidationInterval.

You can only set ldapShouldRefreshUserCacheEntries during startup in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. For example, the following disables ldapShouldRefreshUserCacheEntries:

mongod --setParameter ldapShouldRefreshUserCacheEntries=false

maxValidateMemoryUsageMB

Available for mongod only.

New in version 5.0.

Default: 200

The maximum memory usage limit in megabytes for the validate command. If the limit is exceeded, validate returns as many results as possible and warns that not all corruption might be reported because of the limit.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

oidcIdentityProviders

Available for mongod only.

Changed in version 8.0: (Also available in 7.3 and 7.0)

Use this parameter to specify identity provider (IDP) configurations when using OpenID Connect Authentication.

oidcIdentityProviders accepts an array of zero or more identity provider (IDP) configurations. An empty array (default) indicates no OpenID Connect support is enabled.

When more than one IDP is defined, oidcIdentityProviders uses the matchPattern field to select an IDP. Array order determines the priority and the first IDP is always selected.

Starting in MongoDB 8.0, when multiple identity providers (IDP) are defined, the oidcIdentityProviders parameter accepts duplicate issuer values as long as the audience value is unique for each issuer. This is also available in versions 7.3 and 7.0.

oidcIdentityProviders Fields

Field	Necessity	Type	Description
issuer	Required	string	The issuer URI of the IDP that the server should accept tokens from. This must match the iss field in any JWT used for authentication. Starting in MongoDB 8.0, when multiple identity providers (IDP) are defined, the oidcIdentityProviders parameter accepts duplicate issuer values as long as the audience value is unique for each issuer. This is also available in versions 7.3 and 7.0. If you specify an unreachable issuer URI, MongoDB: Logs a warning. Continues server startup, which allows you to update the issuer URI. Reattempts issuer contact. If MongoDB reaches the issuer URI and validates the access token, authentication succeeds. If the issuer URI remains unreachable, authentication fails. Changed in version 8.0: (Also available in 7.3 and 7.0)
authNamePrefix	Required	string	Unique prefix applied to each generated UserName and RoleName used in authorization. authNamePrefix can only contain the following characters: alphanumeric characters (combination of a to z and 0 to 9) hyphens (-) underscores (_)
matchPattern	Conditional	string	Regex pattern used to determine which IDP should be used. matchPattern matches against usernames. Array order determines the priority and the first IDP is always selected. matchPattern is required in some configurations, depending on how the user sets supportsHumanFlows: When only one IdP has supportsHumanFlows set to true (the default), matchPatterns is optional. When multiple IdP's have supportsHumanFlows set to true (the default), each of these requires matchPatterns. matchPatterns is optional for any IdP where supportsHumanFlows is set to false. This is not a security mechanism. matchPattern serves only as an advisory to clients. MongoDB accepts tokens issued by the IDP whose principal names do not match this pattern.
clientId	Conditional	string	ID provided by the IDP to identify the client that receives the access tokens. Required when supportsHumanFlows is set to true (the default).
audience	Required	string	Specifies the application or service that the access token is intended for. Starting in MongoDB 7.0, only one audience oidcIdentityProviders field can be specified for OIDC access tokens. audience fields with empty arrays or arrays of multiple strings are invalid. When more than one IDP is defined, this must be a unique value for each configuration that shares an issuer.
requestScopes	Optional	array[ string ]	Permissions and access levels that MongoDB requests from the IDP.
principalName	Optional	string	The claim to be extracted from the access token containing MongoDB user identifiers. The default value is sub (stands for subject).
useAuthorizationClaim	Optional	boolean	Determines if the authorizationClaim is required. The default value is true. If the useAuthorizationClaim field is set to true, the server requires an authorizationClaim for the identity provider's config. This is the default behavior. If the useAuthorizationClaim field is set to false, the authorizationClaim field is optional (and ignored if provided). Instead, the server does the following: Searches the token for a claim whose name is listed in the principalNameClaim field. This is typically named sub. For example: sub: "spencer.jackson@example.com" Constructs the internal username by concatenating the authNamePrefix, a forward slash (/), and the contents of the claim identified by principalNameClaim within the access token. For example, with a authNamePrefix field value of "mdbinc", the internal username is: mdbinc/spencer.jackson@example.com Looks for the user with this username and authorizes the client with the roles: { user: "mdbinc/spencer.jackson@example.com", db: "$external" } New in version 7.2: (Also available in 7.0.5)
authorizationClaim	Conditional	string	Required, unless useAuthorizationClaim is set to false. Claim extracted from access token that contains MongoDB role names.
logClaims	Optional	array[ string ]	List of access token claims to include in log and audit messages upon authentication completion.
JWKSPollSecs	Optional	integer	Frequency, in seconds, to request an updated JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) from the IDP. A setting of 0 disables polling. When more than one IDP is defined, this must be the same value for each configuration that shares an issuer.
supportsHumanFlows	Optional	bool	Whether the OIDC provider supports human or machine workflows. This affects the clientId and matchPattern fields. You may find it useful to set this field to false with machine workload IdP's to allow them to omit the clientId when it's unneeded. Default: true. New in version 7.2.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

ocspEnabled

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Available on Linux and macOS.

Default: true

The flag that enables or disables OCSP.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, the following disables OCSP:

mongod --setParameter ocspEnabled=false ...

Starting in MongoDB 6.0, if ocspEnabled is set to true during initial sync, all nodes must be able to reach the OCSP responder.

If a member fails in the STARTUP2 state, set tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs to a value that is less than 5.

Tip

See also:

• ocspValidationRefreshPeriodSecs

• tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs

• tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs

ocspValidationRefreshPeriodSecs

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Available on Linux.

The number of seconds to wait before refreshing the stapled OCSP status response. Specify a number greater than or equal to 1.

You can only set ocspValidationRefreshPeriodSecs during startup in the configuration file or with the --setParameter option on the command line. For example, the following sets the parameter to 3600 seconds:

mongod --setParameter ocspValidationRefreshPeriodSecs=3600 ...

Starting in MongoDB 5.0, the rotateCertificates command and db.rotateCertificates() method will also refresh any stapled OCSP responses.

Tip

See also:

• ocspEnabled

• tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs

• tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs

opensslCipherConfig

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Available on Linux only

With the use of native TLS/SSL libraries, the parameter opensslCipherConfig is supported for Linux/BSD and no longer supported in Windows and macOS.

Specify the cipher string for OpenSSL when using TLS/SSL encryption. For a list of cipher strings, see https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man1/ciphers.html. Multiple cipher strings can be provided as a colon-separated list.

Note

This parameter is only for use with TLS 1.2 or earlier. To specify cipher suites for use with TLS 1.3, use the opensslCipherSuiteConfig parameter.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

The use of TLS options is preferred over SSL options. The TLS options have the same functionality as the SSL options. The following example configures a mongod with a opensslCipherConfig cipher string of 'HIGH:!EXPORT:!aNULL@STRENGTH':

mongod --setParameter opensslCipherConfig='HIGH:!EXPORT:!aNULL@STRENGTH' --tlsMode requireTLS --tlsCertificateKeyFile Certs/server.pem

opensslCipherSuiteConfig

Available for both mongod and mongos.

New in version 5.0.

Available on Linux only

Specify the list of supported cipher suites OpenSSL should permit when using TLS 1.3 encryption.

For a list of cipher suites for use with TLS 1.3, see https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list.html. Multiple cipher suites can be provided as a colon-separated list.

Note

This parameter is only for use with TLS 1.3. To specify cipher strings for use with TLS 1.2 or earlier, use the opensslCipherConfig parameter.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, the following configures a mongod with a opensslCipherSuiteConfig cipher suite of 'TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384' for use with TLS 1.3:

mongod --setParameter opensslCipherSuiteConfig='TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384' --tlsMode requireTLS --tlsCertificateKeyFile Certs/server.pem

opensslDiffieHellmanParameters

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Available on Linux only

Specify the path to the PEM file that contains the OpenSSL Diffie-Hellman parameters when using TLS 1.2 or previous. Specifying the OpenSSL Diffie-Hellman parameters enables support for Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) cipher suites during TLS/SSL encryption.

This parameter is not supported for use with TLS 1.3.

Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) cipher suites (and Ephemeral Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDHE) cipher suites) provide Forward Secrecy. Forward Secrecy cipher suites create an ephemeral session key that is protected by the server's private key but never transmitted. This ensures that even if a server's private key is compromised, you cannot decrypt past sessions with the compromised key.

Note

If opensslDiffieHellmanParameters is unset but ECDHE is enabled, MongoDB enables DHE using the ffdhe3072 Diffie-Hellman parameter, as defined in RFC-7919#appendix-A.2. The ffdhe3072 is a strong parameter (specifically, size is greater than 1024). Strong parameters are not supported with Java 6 and 7 unless extended support has been purchased from Oracle.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

If for performance reasons, you need to disable support for DHE cipher suites, use the opensslCipherConfig parameter:

mongod --setParameter opensslCipherConfig='HIGH:!EXPORT:!aNULL:!DHE:!kDHE@STRENGTH' ...

saslauthdPath

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Note

Available only in MongoDB Enterprise (except MongoDB Enterprise for Windows).

Specify the path to the Unix Domain Socket of the saslauthd instance to use for proxy authentication.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

saslHostName

Available for both mongod and mongos.

saslHostName overrides MongoDB's default hostname detection for the purpose of configuring SASL and Kerberos authentication.

saslHostName does not affect the hostname of the mongod or mongos instance for any purpose beyond the configuration of SASL and Kerberos.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Note

saslHostName supports Kerberos authentication and is only included in MongoDB Enterprise. For more information, see the following:

• Linux: Configure Self-Managed MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication on Linux

• Windows: Configure Self-Managed MongoDB with Kerberos Authentication on Windows

saslServiceName

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Allows users to override the default Kerberos service name component of the Kerberos principal name, on a per-instance basis. If unspecified, the default value is mongodb.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

saslServiceName is only available in MongoDB Enterprise.

Important

Ensure that your driver supports alternate service names.

scramIterationCount

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 10000

Changes the number of hashing iterations used for all new SCRAM-SHA-1 passwords. More iterations increase the amount of time required for clients to authenticate to MongoDB, but makes passwords less susceptible to brute-force attempts. The default value is ideal for most common use cases and requirements.

If you modify this value, it does not change the iteration count for existing passwords. The scramIterationCount value must be 5000 or greater.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, the following sets the scramIterationCount to 12000.

mongod --setParameter scramIterationCount=12000

Or, if using the setParameter command within mongosh:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, scramIterationCount: 12000 } )

Tip

See also:

• db.changeUserPassword()

• db.createUser()

• db.updateUser()

scramSHA256IterationCount

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 15000

Changes the number of hashing iterations used for all new SCRAM-SHA-256 passwords. More iterations increase the amount of time required for clients to authenticate to MongoDB, but makes passwords less susceptible to brute-force attempts. The default value is ideal for most common use cases and requirements.

If you modify this value, it does not change iteration count for existing passwords. The scramSHA256IterationCount value must be 5000 or greater.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, the following sets the scramSHA256IterationCount to 20000.

mongod --setParameter scramSHA256IterationCount=20000

Or, if using the setParameter command within mongosh:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, scramSHA256IterationCount: 20000 } )

Tip

See also:

• db.changeUserPassword()

• db.createUser()

• db.updateUser()

sslMode

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Set the net.ssl.mode to either preferSSL or requireSSL. Useful during rolling upgrade to TLS/SSL to minimize downtime.

For more information about TLS/SSL and MongoDB, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL and TLS/SSL Configuration for Clients .

This parameter is only available at runtime. To set the parameter, use the setParameter command.

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, sslMode: "preferSSL" } )

Tip

See also:

tlsMode

tlsMode

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Set to either:

• preferTLS

• requireTLS

The tlsMode parameter is useful during rolling upgrade to TLS/SSL to minimize downtime.

This parameter is only available at runtime. To set the parameter, use the setParameter command.

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, tlsMode: "preferTLS" } )

For more information about TLS/SSL and MongoDB, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL and TLS/SSL Configuration for Clients .

Tip

See also:

sslMode

tlsClusterAuthX509Override

Available for both mongod and mongos.

New in version 7.0.

Overrides the clusterAuthX509 configuration options.

setParameter:
   tlsClusterAuthX509Override: { attributes: O=MongoDB, OU=MongoDB Server }

The parameter supports attributes and extensionValue overrides.

When the server authenticates connections from members, it analyzes the X.509 certificate to determine whether it belongs to a cluster member. If the server uses the attributes setting or the attributes field on the tlsClusterAuthX509Override parameter, it checks the Distinguished Name (DN) values of the certificate. If the extensionValue setting or the extensionValue field of the tlsClusterAuthX509Override parameter is set, it checks the extension values of the certificate. If it finds a match, it authorizes the connection as a peer.

Use this parameter to rotate certificates when the new certificates have different attributes or extension values.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Available for Linux.

The maximum number of seconds the mongod / mongos instance should wait to receive the OCSP status response for its certificates.

Specify an integer greater than or equal to (>=) 1. If unset, tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs uses the tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs value.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, the following sets the tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs to 20 seconds:

mongod --setParameter tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs=20 ...

Tip

See also:

• ocspEnabled

• ocspValidationRefreshPeriodSecs

• tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs

tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Available for Linux and Windows.

Default: 5

The maximum number of seconds that the mongod / mongos should wait for the OCSP response when verifying server certificates.

Specify an integer greater than or equal to (>=) 1.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, the following sets the tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs to 20 seconds:

mongod --setParameter tlsOCSPVerifyTimeoutSecs=20 ...

Tip

See also:

• ocspEnabled

• ocspValidationRefreshPeriodSecs

• tlsOCSPStaplingTimeoutSecs

tlsUseSystemCA

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: false

Specifies whether MongoDB loads TLS certificates that are already available to the operating system's certificate authority.

Important

When starting a mongod instance with TLS/SSL enabled, you must specify a value for the --tlsCAFile flag, the net.tls.CAFile configuration option, or the tlsUseSystemCA parameter.

--tlsCAFile, tls.CAFile, and tlsUseSystemCA are all mutually exclusive.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, to set tlsUseSystemCA to true:

mongod --setParameter tlsUseSystemCA=true

For more information about TLS/SSL and MongoDB, see Configure mongod and mongos for TLS/SSL and TLS/SSL Configuration for Clients .

tlsWithholdClientCertificate

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: false

A TLS certificate is set for a mongod or mongos either by the --tlsClusterFile option or by the --tlsCertificateKeyFile option when --tlsClusterFile is not set. If the TLS certificate is set, by default, the instance sends the certificate when initiating intra-cluster communications with other mongod or mongos instances in the deployment. Set tlsWithholdClientCertificate to 1 or true to direct the instance to withhold sending its TLS certificate during these communications. Use this option with --tlsAllowConnectionsWithoutCertificates (to allow inbound connections without certificates) on all members of the deployment. tlsWithholdClientCertificate is mutually exclusive with --clusterAuthMode x509.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

tlsX509ClusterAuthDNOverride

Available for both mongod and mongos.

An alternative Distinguished Name (DN) that the instance can also use to identify members of the deployment.

For a MongoDB deployment that uses x.509 certificates for clusterAuthMode, deployment members identify each other using x.509 certificates ( net.tls.clusterFile, if specified, and net.tls.certificateKeyFile) during intra-cluster communications. For members of the same deployment, the DN from their certificates must have the same Organization attributes (O's), the Organizational Unit attributes (OU's), and the Domain Components (DC's).

If tlsX509ClusterAuthDNOverride is set for a member, the member can also use the override value when comparing the DN components (O's, OU's, and DC's) of the presented certificates. That is the member checks the presented certificates against its net.tls.clusterFile/net.tls.certificateKeyFile. If the DN does not match, the member checks the presented certificate against the tlsX509ClusterAuthDNOverride value.

Note

If set, you must set this parameter on all members of the deployment.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

You can use this parameter for a rolling update of certificates to new certificates that contain a new DN value. See Rolling Update of x.509 Certificates that Contain New DN on Self-Managed Clusters.

For more information about membership certificate requirements, see Member Certificate Requirements for details.

tlsX509ExpirationWarningThresholdDays

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default : 30

mongod / mongos logs a warning on connection if the presented x.509 certificate expires within 30 days of the mongod/mongos system clock. Use the tlsX509ExpirationWarningThresholdDays parameter to control the certificate expiration warning threshold:

• Increase the parameter value to trigger warnings farther ahead of the certificate expiration date.

• Decrease the parameter value to trigger warnings closer to the certificate expiration date.

• Set the parameter to 0 to disable the warning.

This parameter has a minimum value of 0.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For more information on x.509 certificate validity, see RFC 5280 4.1.2.5.

userCacheInvalidationIntervalSecs

Available for mongos only.

Default: 30

On a mongos instance, specifies the interval (in seconds) at which the mongos instance checks to determine whether the in-memory cache of user objects has stale data, and if so, clears the cache. If there are no changes to user objects, mongos will not clear the cache.

This parameter has a minimum value of 1 second and a maximum value of 86400 seconds (24 hours).

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

authFailedDelayMs

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 0

Note

Enterprise Feature

Available in MongoDB Enterprise only.

The number of milliseconds to wait before informing clients that their authentication attempt has failed. This parameter may be in the range 0 to 5000, inclusive.

Setting this parameter makes brute-force login attacks on a database more time-consuming. However, clients waiting for a response from the MongoDB server still consume server resources, and this may adversely impact benign login attempts if the server is denying access to many other clients simultaneously.

allowRolesFromX509Certificates

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: true

A boolean flag that allows or disallows the retrieval of authorization roles from client x.509 certificates.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

General Parameters

allowDiskUseByDefault

Available for mongod only.

Default: True

Starting in MongoDB 6.0, pipeline stages that require more than 100 megabytes of memory to execute write temporary files to disk by default. These temporary files last for the duration of the pipeline execution and can influence storage space on your instance. In earlier versions of MongoDB, you must pass { allowDiskUse: true } to individual find and aggregate commands to enable this behavior.

Individual find and aggregate commands can override the allowDiskUseByDefault parameter by either:

• Using { allowDiskUse: true } to allow writing temporary files out to disk when allowDiskUseByDefault is set to false

• Using { allowDiskUse: false } to prohibit writing temporary files out to disk when allowDiskUseByDefault is set to true

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

mongod --setParameter allowDiskUseByDefault=false

allowDiskUseByDefault only works on mongod not mongos. mongos never writes temporary files to disk. Use the setParameter command in a mongosh session that is connected to a running mongod to change the value of the parameter while the server is running:

db.adminCommand(
  {
      setParameter: 1,
      allowDiskUseByDefault: false
  }
)

httpVerboseLogging

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Adds more verbose tracing for curl on Linux and macOS. Has no affect on Windows.

By default, the parameter is unset.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

mongos --setParameter httpVerboseLogging=true

slowConnectionThresholdMillis

New in version 6.3.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 100

Sets the time limit in milliseconds to log the establishment of slow server connections.

If a connection takes longer to establish than the slowConnectionThresholdMillis parameter, an event is added to the log with the message msg field set to "Slow connection establishment".

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets slowConnectionThresholdMillis to 250 milliseconds.

mongod --setParameter slowConnectionThresholdMillis=250

Or, if using the setParameter command within mongosh:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, slowConnectionThresholdMillis: 250 } )

connPoolMaxConnsPerHost

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 200

Sets the maximum size of the legacy connection pools for outgoing connections to other mongod instances in the global connection pool. The size of a pool does not prevent the creation of additional connections, but does prevent a connection pool from retaining connections in excess of the value of connPoolMaxConnsPerHost.

Note

The parameter is separate from the connections in TaskExecutor pools. See ShardingTaskExecutorPoolMaxSize.

Only adjust this setting if your driver does not pool connections and you're using authentication in the context of a sharded cluster.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

mongod --setParameter connPoolMaxConnsPerHost=250

connPoolMaxInUseConnsPerHost

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the maximum number of in-use connections at any given time for for outgoing connections to other mongod instances in the legacy global connection pool.

By default, the parameter is unset.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

mongod --setParameter connPoolMaxInUseConnsPerHost=100

Tip

See also:

connPoolMaxConnsPerHost

globalConnPoolIdleTimeoutMinutes

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the time limit that connection in the legacy global connection pool can remain idle before being closed.

By default, the parameter is unset.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

mongos --setParameter globalConnPoolIdleTimeoutMinutes=10

cursorTimeoutMillis

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 600000 (10 minutes)

Sets the expiration threshold in milliseconds for idle cursors before MongoDB removes them; specifically, MongoDB removes cursors that have been idle for the specified cursorTimeoutMillis.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, the following sets the cursorTimeoutMillis to 300000 milliseconds (5 minutes).

mongod --setParameter cursorTimeoutMillis=300000

Or, if using the setParameter command within mongosh:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, cursorTimeoutMillis: 300000 } )

Setting cursorTimeoutMillis to less than or equal to 0 results in all cursors being immediately eligible for timeout. Generally, the timeout value should be greater than the average amount of time for a query to return results. Use tools like the cursor.explain() cursor modifier to analyze the average query time and select an appropriate timeout period.

Warning

MongoDB cleans up orphaned cursors linked to sessions as part of session management. This means that orphaned cursors with session ids do not use cursorTimeoutMillis to control the timeout.

For operations that return a cursor and have an idle period longer than localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes, use Mongo.startSession() to perform the operation within an explicit session. To refresh the session, run the refreshSessions command. For details, see Refresh a Cursor with refreshSessions.

maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 3

Sets the maximum number of concurrent index builds allowed on the primary. This is a global limit that applies across all collections.

Increasing the value of maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds allows additional concurrent index builds at the cost of increased pressure on the WiredTiger cache.

System indexes are not limited to maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds, however a system index build counts against the limit for user index builds.

After the server reaches maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds, it blocks additional user index builds until the number of concurrent index builds drops below the maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds limit. If an index build is blocked, the server logs this message:

Too many index builds running simultaneously, waiting until the
number of active index builds is below the threshold.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following command sets a limit of 4 concurrent index builds:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, maxNumActiveUserIndexBuilds: 4 } )

See also:

• maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes

• Index Builds on Populated Collections

notablescan

Available for mongod only.

Specify whether all queries must use indexes. If 1, MongoDB will not execute queries that require a collection scan and will return an error.

Consider the following example which sets notablescan to 1 or true:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, notablescan: 1 } )

Setting notablescan to 1 can be useful for testing application queries, for example, to identify queries that scan an entire collection and cannot use an index.

To detect unindexed queries without notablescan, consider reading the Analyze Query Performance and Optimize Query Performance sections and using the logLevel parameter, mongostat and profiling.

Don't run production mongod instances with notablescan because preventing collection scans can potentially affect queries in all databases, including administrative queries.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

Note

notablescan does not allow unbounded queries that use a clustered index because the queries require a full collection scan. For more information, see Collection Scans.

ttlMonitorEnabled

Available for mongod only.

Default: true

To support TTL Indexes, mongod instances have a background thread that is responsible for deleting documents from collections with TTL indexes.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

To disable this worker thread for a mongod, set ttlMonitorEnabled to false, as in the following operations:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, ttlMonitorEnabled: false } )

Alternately, you may disable the thread at startup time by starting the mongod instance with the following option:

mongod --setParameter ttlMonitorEnabled=false

Important

Do not run production mongod instances with ttlMonitorEnabled disabled, except under guidance from MongoDB support. Preventing TTL document removal can negatively impact MongoDB internal system operations that depend on TTL Indexes.

tcpFastOpenServer

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: true

Enables support for accepting inbound TCP Fast Open (TFO) connections to the mongod/mongos from a client. TFO requires both the client and mongod/mongos host machine support and enable TFO:

Windows

The following Windows operating systems support TFO:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2016 and later.

• Microsoft Windows 10 Update 1607 and later.

macOS

macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) and later support TFO.

Linux

Linux operating systems running Linux Kernel 3.7 or later can support inbound TFO.

Set the value of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen to enable inbound TFO connections:

• Set to 2 to enable only inbound TFO connections.

• Set to 3 to enable inbound and outbound TFO connections.

This parameter has no effect if the host operating system does not support or is not configured to support TFO connections.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Tip

See also:

RFC7413.

tcpFastOpenClient

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: true

Linux Operating System Only

Enables support for outbound TCP Fast Open (TFO) connections from the mongod/mongos to a client. TFO requires both the client and the mongod/mongos host machine support and enable TFO.

Linux operating systems running Linux Kernel 4.11 or later can support outbound TFO.

Set the value of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fastopen to enable outbound TFO connections:

• 1 to enable only outbound TFO connections.

• 3 to enable inbound and outbound TFO connections.

This parameter has no effect if the host operating system does not support or is not configured to support TFO connections.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Tip

See also:

RFC7413.

tcpFastOpenQueueSize

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 1024

As part of establishing a TCP Fast Open (TFO) connection, the client submits a valid TFO cookie to the mongod/mongos before completion of the standard TCP 3-way handshake. The mongod/mongos keeps a queue of all such pending TFO connections.

The tcpFastOpenQueueSize parameter sets the size of the queue of pending TFO connections. While the queue is full, the mongod/mongos falls back to the normal three-way handshake for incoming client requests and ignores the presence of TFO cookies. Once the queue size falls back below the limit, the mongod/mongos begins accepting new TFO cookies.

• Increasing the default queue size may improve the effect of TFO on network performance. However, large queue sizes also increase the risk of server resource exhaustion due to excessive incoming TFO requests.

• Decreasing the default queue size may reduce the risk of resource server resource exhaustion due to excessive incoming TFO requests. However, small queue sizes may also reduce the effect of TFO on network performance.

  The minimum queue size is 0. A queue of 0 effectively disables TFO.

This parameter has no effect on host operating systems that do not support or are not configured for TFO connections.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Tip

See also:

• RFC7413 TCP Fast Open Section 5: Security Considerations

• RFC7413 TCP Fast Open Section 6: TFO Applicability

disableJavaScriptJIT

Available for mongod only.

The MongoDB JavaScript engine uses SpiderMonkey, which implements Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation for improved performance when running scripts.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

To enable the JIT, set disableJavaScriptJIT to false, as in the following example:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, disableJavaScriptJIT: false } )

Note

$where will reuse existing JavaScript interpreter contexts, so changes to disableJavaScriptJIT may not take effect immediately for these operations.

Alternately, you may enable the JIT at startup time by starting the mongod instance with the following option:

mongod --setParameter disableJavaScriptJIT=false

indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB

New in version 7.1.

Available for mongod only.

Default: 500 MB

Sets the minimum available disk space in megabytes required for index builds.

Must be greater than or equal to 0 MB, and less than or equal to 8 TB. 0 disables the minimum disk space requirement.

A new index build cannot be started and a current index build is cancelled if the available disk space is below indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB.

Warning

If you increase indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB, ensure your server has enough available disk space. Also, if you set indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB too high, you might needlessly prevent index builds when there is enough available disk space and indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB could be set lower.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB to 650 MB:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB: 650 } )

You can also set indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB at startup. For example:

mongod --setParameter indexBuildMinAvailableDiskSpaceMB=650

indexMaxNumGeneratedKeysPerDocument

Available for both mongod and mongos.

New in version 5.3.

Default: 100000

Limits the maximum number of keys generated for a document to prevent out of memory errors. It is possible to raise the limit, but if an operation requires more keys than the indexMaxNumGeneratedKeysPerDocument parameter specifies, the operation will fail.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes

Available for mongod only.

Default: 200

Limits the amount of memory that simultaneous index builds on one collection may consume for the duration of the builds. The specified amount of memory is shared between all indexes built using a single createIndexes command or its shell helper db.collection.createIndexes().

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The memory consumed by an index build is separate from the WiredTiger cache memory (see cacheSizeGB).

maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes sets a limit on how much memory the index build uses at once. This can impact performance when the index build process generates and sorts keys for the index. Increasing the memory limit improves sorting performance during an index build.

Index builds may be initiated either by a user command such as createIndexes or by an administrative process such as an initial sync. Both are subject to the limit set by maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes.

An initial sync populates only one collection at a time and has no risk of exceeding the memory limit. However, it is possible for a user to start index builds on multiple collections in multiple databases simultaneously and potentially consume an amount of memory greater than the limit set by maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes.

Tip

To minimize the impact of building an index on replica sets and sharded clusters with replica set shards, use a rolling index build procedure as described on Rolling Index Builds on Replica Sets.

Changing maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes does not affect an in progress index build if it has already started a collection scan. However, a forced replica set reconfiguration restarts the collection scan and uses the most current maxIndexBuildMemoryUsageMegabytes provided.

• For feature compatibility version (fcv) "4.2" and later, the index build memory limit applies to all index builds.

reportOpWriteConcernCountersInServerStatus

Available for mongod only.

Default: false

A boolean flag that determines whether the db.serverStatus() method and serverStatus command return opWriteConcernCounters information. [1]

mongod --setParameter reportOpWriteConcernCountersInServerStatus=true

[1]	Enabling reportOpWriteConcernCountersInServerStatus can have a negative performance impact; specifically, when running without TLS.

watchdogPeriodSeconds

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: -1 (disabled)

Determines how frequent the Storage Node Watchdog checks the status of the monitored filesystems:

• The --dbpath directory

• The journal directory inside the --dbpath directory

• The directory of --logpath file

• The directory of --auditPath file

Valid values for watchdogPeriodSeconds are:

• -1 (the default), to disable/pause Storage Node Watchdog, or

• An integer greater than or equal to 60.

Note

• If a filesystem on a monitored directory becomes unresponsive, it can take a maximum of nearly twice the value of watchdogPeriodSeconds to terminate the mongod.

• If any of its monitored directory is a symlink to other volumes, the Storage Node Watchdog does not monitor the symlink target. For example, if the mongod uses storage.directoryPerDB: true (or --directoryperdb) and symlinks a database directory to another volume, the Storage Node Watchdog does not follow the symlink to monitor the target.

To enable Storage Node Watchdog, watchdogPeriodSeconds must be set during startup.

mongod --setParameter watchdogPeriodSeconds=60

You can only enable the Storage Node Watchdog at startup. However, once enabled, you can pause the Storage Node Watchdog or change the watchdogPeriodSeconds during run time.

Once enabled,

• To pause the Storage Node Watchdog during run time, set watchdogPeriodSeconds to -1.

  db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, watchdogPeriodSeconds: -1 } )

• To resume or change the period during run time, set watchdogPeriodSeconds to a number greater than or equal to 60.

  db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, watchdogPeriodSeconds: 120 } )

Note

It is an error to set watchdogPeriodSeconds at run time if the Storage Node Watchdog was not enabled at startup time.

tcmallocEnableBackgroundThread

Available for both mongod and mongos.

New in version 8.0.

Type: boolean

Default: true

If set to true, tcmallocEnableBackgroundThread creates a background thread that periodically releases memory back to the operating system. The value of tcmallocReleaseRate determines the rate, in bytes per second, at which the background thread releases memory.

Note

If tcmallocEnableBackgroundThread is true and tcmallocReleaseRate is 0, MongoDB still releases memory.

For improved memory usage, we recommend using the default value of true. To learn more about improvements to performance and memory management, see Upgraded TCMalloc.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

The following operation sets tcmallocEnableBackgroundThread to false:

mongod --setParameter "tcmallocEnableBackgroundThread=false"

tcmallocReleaseRate

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Changed in version 8.0.

Default: 0

Specifies the TCMalloc release rate in bytes per second. Release rate refers to the rate at which MongoDB releases unused memory to the system. If tcmallocReleaseRate is set to 0 MongoDB doesn't release memory back to the system. Increase this value to return memory faster; decrease it to return memory slower.

Note

If tcmallocEnableBackgroundThread is true and tcmallocReleaseRate is 0, MongoDB still releases memory.

Starting in MongoDB 8.0, the default value of tcmallocReleaseRate is reduced to 0 due to a tcmalloc upgrade that prioritizes CPU performance over memory release. Earlier versions of MongoDB used an older version of tcmalloc that set the default tcmallocReleaseRate to 1 to balance memory release and performance.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

To modify the release rate during run time, you can use the setParameter command; for example:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, tcmallocReleaseRate: 5.0 } )

You can also set tcmallocReleaseRate at startup time; for example:

mongod --setParameter "tcmallocReleaseRate=5.0"

fassertOnLockTimeoutForStepUpDown

New in version 5.3.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 15 seconds

Allows a server that receives a request to step up or step down, to terminate if it is unable to comply (for example due to faulty server disks) within the timeout. This enables a cluster to successfully elect a new primary node and thus continue to be available.

fassertOnLockTimeoutForStepUpDown defaults to 15 seconds. To disable nodes from fasserting, set fassertOnLockTimeoutForStepUpDown=0.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example disables nodes from fasserting:

mongod --setParameter fassertOnLockTimeoutForStepUpDown=0

ingressAdmissionControllerTicketPoolSize

Available for mongod only.

Default: 1000000

Controls the maximum number of operations admitted concurrently to the ingress queue. The default value of 1000000 represents the numerical equivalent of unbounded, which admits all incoming operations up to the default maximum connections that MongoDB allows.

Increasing this value while there are operations waiting on the queue unblocks as many operations as the new pool size permits. Decreasing this value does not block any currently executing operations, but incoming controllable operations are blocked until there are tickets available.

mongod --setParameter ingressAdmissionControllerTicketPoolSize=100000

Warning

Avoid modifying ingressAdmissionControllerTicketPoolSize unless directed by MongoDB engineers. This setting has major implications across both WiredTiger and MongoDB.

Logging Parameters

logLevel

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Specify an integer between 0 and 5 signifying the verbosity of the logging, where 5 is the most verbose. [2]

The default logLevel is 0 (Informational).

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets the logLevel to 2:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, logLevel: 2 } )

Tip

See also:

• logComponentVerbosity

• systemLog.verbosity

[2]	Starting in version 4.2, MongoDB includes the Debug verbosity level (1-5) in the log messages. For example, if the verbosity level is 2, MongoDB logs D2. In previous versions, MongoDB log messages only specified D for Debug level.

logComponentVerbosity

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets the verbosity levels of various components for log messages. The verbosity level determines the amount of Informational and Debug messages MongoDB outputs. [3]

The verbosity level can range from 0 to 5:

• 0 is the MongoDB's default log verbosity level, to include Informational messages.

• 1 to 5 increases the verbosity level to include Debug messages.

For a component, you can also specify -1 to inherit the parent's verbosity level.

To specify the verbosity level, use a document similar to the following:

{
  verbosity: <int>,
  <component1>: { verbosity: <int> },
  <component2>: {
     verbosity: <int>,
     <component3>: { verbosity: <int> }
  },
  ...
}

For the components, you can specify just the <component>: <int> in the document, unless you are setting both the parent verbosity level and that of the child component(s) as well:

{
  verbosity: <int>,
  <component1>: <int> ,
  <component2>: {
     verbosity: <int>,
     <component3>: <int>
  }
  ...
}

The top-level verbosity field corresponds to systemLog.verbosity which sets the default level for all components. The default value of systemLog.verbosity is 0.

The components correspond to the following settings:

• accessControl

• command

• control

• ftdc

• geo

• index

• network

• query

• queryStats

• replication

• replication.election

• replication.heartbeats

• replication.initialSync

• replication.rollback

• recovery

• sharding

• storage

• storage.journal

• transaction

• write

Unless explicitly set, the component has the verbosity level of its parent. For example, storage is the parent of storage.journal. That is, if you specify a storage verbosity level, this level also applies to:

• storage.journal components unless you specify the verbosity level for storage.journal.

• storage.recovery components unless you specify the verbosity level for storage.recovery.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, the following sets the default verbosity level to 1, the query to 2, the storage to 2, and the storage.journal to 1.

db.adminCommand( {
   setParameter: 1,
   logComponentVerbosity: {
      verbosity: 1,
      query: { verbosity: 2 },
      storage: {
         verbosity: 2,
         journal: {
            verbosity: 1
         }
      }
   }
} )

You can also set parameter logComponentVerbosity at startup time, passing the verbosity level document as a string.

mongod --setParameter "logComponentVerbosity={command: 3}"

mongosh also provides the db.setLogLevel() to set the log level for a single component. For various ways to set the log verbosity level, see Configure Log Verbosity Levels.

[3]	Starting in version 4.2, MongoDB includes the Debug verbosity level (1-5) in the log messages. For example, if the verbosity level is 2, MongoDB logs D2. In previous versions, MongoDB log messages only specified D for Debug level.

maxLogSizeKB

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: non-negative integer

Default: 10

Specifies the maximum size, in kilobytes, for an individual attribute field in a log entry; attributes exceeding this limit are truncated.

Truncated attribute fields print field content up to the maxLogSizeKB limit and excise field content past that limit, retaining valid JSON formatting. Log entries that contain truncated attributes append a truncated object to the end of the log entry.

See log message truncation for more information.

A value of 0 disables truncation entirely. Negative values for this parameter are not valid.

Warning

Using a large value, or disabling truncation with a value of 0, may adversely affect system performance and negatively impact database operations.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets the maximum log line size to 20 kilobytes:

mongod --setParameter maxLogSizeKB=20

profileOperationResourceConsumptionMetrics

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: false

Flag that determines whether operations collect resource consumption metrics and report them in the slow query logs. If you enable profiling, these metrics are also included.

If set to true, running the explain command returns operationMetrics when the verbosity is executionStats or higher.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

quiet

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Sets quiet logging mode. If 1, mongod will go into a quiet logging mode which will not log the following events/activities:

• connection events;

• the drop command, the dropIndexes command, the validate command; and

• replication synchronization activities.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

Consider the following example which sets the quiet parameter to 1:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, quiet: 1 } )

Tip

See also:

systemLog.quiet

redactClientLogData

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Note

Enterprise Feature

Available in MongoDB Enterprise only.

Configure the mongod or mongos to redact any message accompanying a given log event before logging. This prevents the program from writing potentially sensitive data stored on the database to the diagnostic log. Metadata such as error or operation codes, line numbers, and source file names are still visible in the logs.

Use redactClientLogData in conjunction with Encryption at Rest and TLS/SSL (Transport Encryption) to assist compliance with regulatory requirements.

To enable log redaction at startup, you can either:

• Start mongod with the --redactClientLogData option:

  mongod --redactClientLogData

• Set the security.redactClientLogData option in the configuration file:

  security:
     redactClientLogData: true
     ...

You can't use the --setParameter option to set redactClientLogData at startup.

To enable log redaction on a running mongod or mongos, use the following command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, redactClientLogData : true } )

Tip

See also:

security.redactClientLogData

redactEncryptedFields

New in version 6.1.0.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Configures mongod and mongos to redact field values of encrypted Binary data from all log messages.

• If the redactClientLogData parameter or the security.redactClientLogData setting is set to false and redactEncryptedFields is set to true (the default), encrypted fields are redacted from all log messages.

• If the redactClientLogData parameter or security.redactClientLogData setting is set to true, all fields are redacted, regardless of the redactEncryptedFields setting.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

traceExceptions

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Configures mongod to log full source code stack traces for every database and socket C++ exception, for use with debugging. If true, mongod will log full stack traces.

This parameter is only available at runtime. To set the parameter, use the setParameter command.

Consider the following example which sets the traceExceptions to true:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, traceExceptions: true } )

Tip

See also:

systemLog.traceAllExceptions

suppressNoTLSPeerCertificateWarning

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: false

By default, a mongod or mongos with TLS/SSL enabled and net.ssl.allowConnectionsWithoutCertificates : true lets clients connect without providing a certificate for validation while logging an warning. Set suppressNoTLSPeerCertificateWarning to 1 or true to suppress those warnings.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

The following operation sets suppressNoTLSPeerCertificateWarning to true:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, suppressNoTLSPeerCertificateWarning: true} )

enableDetailedConnectionHealthMetricLogLines

New in version 7.0.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Determines whether to enable specific log messages related to cluster connection health metrics. If enableDetailedConnectionHealthMetricLogLines is set to false, the following log messages are turned off, but MongoDB still collects data on the cluster connection health metrics:

Log Message	Description
Accepted TLS connection from peer	Indicates that the server successfully parsed the peer certificate during the TLS handshake with an accepted ingress connection.
Ingress TLS handshake complete	Indicates that the TLS handshake with an ingress connection is complete.
Hello completed	Indicates that the initial connection handshake completed on an incoming client connection. MongoDB displays the log message only with the first hello command.
Auth metrics report	Specifies the completion of a step in the authentication conversation.
Received first command on ingress connection since session start or auth handshake	Indicates that an ingress connection received the first command that is not part of the handshake.
Slow network response send time	Indicates that the time spent, in milliseconds, to send the response back to the client over an ingress connection takes more time than the duration defined by the slowMS server parameter.
Completed client-side verification of OCSP request	If the peer doesn't include an OCSP response to the TLS handshake when an egress TLS connection is established, the server must send an OCSP request to the certificate authority. MongoDB writes this log message when the certificate authority receives the OCSP response.
Slow connection establishment	Indicates that the time taken to send a response back to the client over an ingress connection takes longer than the threshold specified with the slowConnectionThresholdMillis parameter. MongoDB also emits this log message when the connection establishment times out.
Operation timed out while waiting to acquire connection	Indicates that an operation timed out while waiting to acquire an egress connection.
Acquired connection for remote operation and completed writing to wire	Indicates that the server took one millisecond or longer to write an outgoing request on an egress connection, counting from the instant when the connection establishes.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

Diagnostic Parameters

To facilitate analysis of the MongoDB server behavior by MongoDB engineers, MongoDB logs server statistics to diagnostic files at periodic intervals.

For mongod, the diagnostic data files are stored in the diagnostic.data directory under the mongod instance's --dbpath or storage.dbPath.

For mongos, the diagnostic data files, by default, are stored in a directory under the mongos instance's --logpath or systemLog.path directory. The diagnostic data directory is computed by truncating the logpath's file extension(s) and concatenating diagnostic.data to the remaining name.

For example, if mongos has --logpath /var/log/mongodb/mongos.log.201708015, then the diagnostic data directory is /var/log/mongodb/mongos.diagnostic.data/ directory. To specify a different diagnostic data directory for mongos, set the diagnosticDataCollectionDirectoryPath parameter.

The following parameters support diagnostic data capture (FTDC):

diagnosticDataCollectionEnabled

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Determines whether to enable the collecting and logging of data for diagnostic purposes. Diagnostic logging is enabled by default.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, the following disables the diagnostic collection:

mongod --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionEnabled=false

diagnosticDataCollectionDirectoryPath

Available for mongos only.

Type: String

Warning

If Full Time Diagnostic Data Capture (FTDC) is disabled with diagnosticDataCollectionEnabled or if systemLog.destination is set to syslog, you must restart mongos after setting diagnosticDataCollectionDirectoryPath.

Specify the directory for the diagnostic directory for mongos. If the directory does not exist, mongos creates the directory.

If unspecified, the diagnostic data directory is computed by truncating the mongos instance's --logpath or systemLog.path file extension(s) and concatenating diagnostic.data.

For example, if mongos has --logpath /var/log/mongodb/mongos.log.201708015, then the diagnostic data directory is /var/log/mongodb/mongos.diagnostic.data/.

If the mongos cannot create the specified directory, the diagnostic data capture is disabled for that instance. mongos may not be able to create the specified directory if a file with the same name already exists in the path or if the process does not have permissions to create the directory.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 200 (400 in sharded clusters)

Specifies the maximum size, in megabytes, of the diagnostic.data directory. If directory size exceeds this number, the oldest diagnostic files in the directory are automatically deleted based on the timestamp in the file name.

Changed in version 8.0: diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB has a default value of 400 MB for mongos and mongod instances used in sharded clusters. mongod instances used in replica set or as standalone servers have a default value of 200 MB.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, the following sets the maximum size of the directory to 250 megabytes:

mongod --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB=250

The minimum value for diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB is 10 megabytes. diagnosticDataCollectionDirectorySizeMB must be greater than maximum diagnostic file size diagnosticDataCollectionFileSizeMB.

diagnosticDataCollectionFileSizeMB

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 10

Specifies the maximum size, in megabytes, of each diagnostic file. If the file exceeds the maximum file size, MongoDB creates a new file.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, the following sets the maximum size of each diagnostic file to 20 megabytes:

mongod --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionFileSizeMB=20

The minimum value for diagnosticDataCollectionFileSizeMB is 1 megabyte.

diagnosticDataCollectionPeriodMillis

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 1000

Specifies the interval, in milliseconds, at which to collect diagnostic data.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, the following sets the interval to 5000 milliseconds or 5 seconds:

mongod --setParameter diagnosticDataCollectionPeriodMillis=5000

The minimum value for diagnosticDataCollectionPeriodMillis is 100 milliseconds.

Replication and Consistency

disableSplitHorizonIPCheck

New in version 5.0.0.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: false

To configure cluster nodes for split horizon DNS, use host names instead of IP addresses.

Starting in MongoDB v5.0, replSetInitiate and replSetReconfig reject configurations that use IP addresses instead of hostnames.

Use disableSplitHorizonIPCheck to modify nodes that cannot be updated to use host names. The parameter only applies to the configuration commands.

mongod and mongos do not rely on disableSplitHorizonIPCheck for validation at startup. Legacy mongod and mongos instances that use IP addresses instead of host names can start after an upgrade.

Instances that are configured with IP addresses log a warning to use host names instead of IP addresses.

To allow configuration changes using IP addresses, set disableSplitHorizonIPCheck=true using the command line:

/usr/local/bin/mongod  --setParameter disableSplitHorizonIPCheck=true -f /etc/mongod.conf

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

setParameter:
   disableSplitHorizonIPCheck: true

enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting

New in version 5.0.2.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: false

If enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting is true, replica set secondary members can replicate data from other secondary members even if settings.chainingAllowed is false.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, to set the enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting for a mongod instance to true:

mongod --setParameter enableOverrideClusterChainingSetting=true

logicalSessionRefreshMillis

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 300000 (5 minutes)

The interval (in milliseconds) at which the cache refreshes its logical session records against the main session store.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, to set the logicalSessionRefreshMillis for a mongod instance to 10 minutes:

mongod --setParameter logicalSessionRefreshMillis=600000

localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 30

Warning

For testing purposes only

This parameter is intended for testing purposes only and not for production use.

The time in minutes that a session remains active after its most recent use. Sessions that have not received a new read/write operation from the client or been refreshed with refreshSessions within this threshold are cleared from the cache. State associated with an expired session may be cleaned up by the server at any time.

This parameter applies only to the instance on which it is set. To set this parameter on replica sets and sharded clusters, you must specify the same value on every member; otherwise, sessions will not function properly.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, to set the localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes for a test mongod instance to 20 minutes:

mongod --setParameter localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes=20

maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 31536000 (1 year)

The maximum amount by which the current cluster time can be advanced; specifically, maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs is the maximum difference between the new value of the cluster time and the current cluster time. Cluster time is a logical time used for ordering of operations.

You cannot advance the cluster time to a new value if the new cluster time differs from the current cluster time by more than maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, to set the maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs for a mongod instance to 15 minutes:

mongod --setParameter maxAcceptableLogicalClockDriftSecs=900

maxSessions

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 1000000

The maximum number of sessions that can be cached.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, to set the maxSessions for a mongod instance to 1000:

mongod --setParameter maxSessions=1000

oplogBatchDelayMillis

New in version 6.0.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 0

The number of milliseconds to delay applying batches of oplog operations on secondary nodes. By default, oplogBatchDelayMillis is 0, meaning oplog batches are applied with no delay. When there is no delay, MongoDB may apply frequent, small oplog batches to secondaries.

Increasing oplogBatchDelayMillis causes MongoDB to apply oplog batches less frequently on secondaries, with each batch containing larger amounts of data. This reduces IOPS on secondaries, but adds latency for writes with write concern "majority".

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, run the following command to set the oplogBatchDelayMillis for a mongod instance to 20 milliseconds:

mongod --setParameter oplogBatchDelayMillis=20

periodicNoopIntervalSecs

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 10

The duration in seconds between noop writes on each individual node.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Note

To modify this value for a MongoDB Atlas cluster, you must contact Atlas Support.

The following example sets the periodicNoopIntervalSecs to 1 second at startup:

mongod --setParameter periodicNoopIntervalSecs=1

storeFindAndModifyImagesInSideCollection

New in version 5.0.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Determines whether the temporary documents required for retryable findAndModify commands are stored in the side collection (config.image_collection).

If storeFindAndModifyImagesInSideCollection is:

• true, the temporary documents are stored in the side collection.

• false, the temporary documents are stored in the replica set oplog.

Keep storeFindAndModifyImagesInSideCollection set to true if you:

• Have a large retryable findAndModify workload.

• Require more temporary document space for retryable findAndModify commands than is available in the replica set oplog.

Note

Secondaries may experience increased CPU usage when storeFindAndModifyImagesInSideCollection is true.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, to set storeFindAndModifyImagesInSideCollection to false during startup:

mongod --setParameter storeFindAndModifyImagesInSideCollection=false

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, storeFindAndModifyImagesInSideCollection: false } )

TransactionRecordMinimumLifetimeMinutes

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 30

The minimum lifetime a transaction record exists in the transactions collection before the record becomes eligible for cleanup.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, to set the TransactionRecordMinimumLifetimeMinutes for a mongod instance to 20 minutes:

mongod --setParameter TransactionRecordMinimumLifetimeMinutes=20

Tip

See also:

localLogicalSessionTimeoutMinutes

enableFlowControl

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Enables or disables the mechanism that controls the rate at which the primary applies its writes with the goal of keeping the secondary members' majority committed lag under a configurable maximum value.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

Note

For flow control to engage, the replica set/sharded cluster must have: featureCompatibilityVersion (fCV) of 4.2 and read concern majority enabled. That is, enabled flow control has no effect if fCV is not 4.2 or if read concern majority is disabled.

flowControlTargetLagSeconds

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 10

The target maximum majority committed lag when running with flow control. When flow control is enabled, the mechanism attempts to keep the majority committed lag under the specified seconds. The parameter has no effect if flow control is disabled.

The specified value must be greater than 0.

In general, the default settings should suffice; however, if modifying from the default value, decreasing, rather than increasing, the value may prove to be more useful.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

flowControlWarnThresholdSeconds

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 10

The amount of time to wait to log a warning once the flow control mechanism detects the majority commit point has not moved.

The specified value must be greater than or equal to 0, with 0 to disable warnings.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

initialSyncTransientErrorRetryPeriodSeconds

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 86400

The amount of time in seconds a secondary performing initial sync attempts to resume the process if interrupted by a transient network error. The default value is equivalent to 24 hours.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

initialSyncSourceReadPreference

Available for mongod only.

Type: String

The preferred source for performing initial sync. Specify one of the following read preference modes:

• primary

• primaryPreferred (Default for voting replica set members)

• secondary

• secondaryPreferred

• nearest (Default for newly added or non-voting replica set members)

If the replica set has disabled chaining, the default initialSyncSourceReadPreference read preference mode is primary.

You cannot specify a tag set or maxStalenessSeconds to initialSyncSourceReadPreference.

If the mongod cannot find a sync source based on the specified read preference, it logs an error and restarts the initial sync process. The mongod exits with an error if it cannot complete the initial sync process after 10 attempts. For more information on sync source selection, see Initial Sync Source Selection.

initialSyncSourceReadPreference takes precedence over the replica set's settings.chainingAllowed setting when selecting an initial sync source. After a replica set member successfully completes initial sync, it defers to the value of chainingAllowed when selecting a replication sync source.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

initialSyncMethod

New in version 5.2.

Available for mongod only.

Type: String

Default: logical

Available only in MongoDB Enterprise.

Method used for initial sync.

Set to logical to use logical initial sync. Set to fileCopyBased to use file copy based initial sync.

This parameter only affects the sync method for the member on which it is specified. Setting this parameter on a single replica set member does not affect the sync method of any other replica set members.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

maxNumSyncSourceChangesPerHour

Available for both mongod and mongos.

New in version 5.0.

Type: integer

Default: 3

Sync sources are evaluated each time a sync source is updated and each time a node fetches a batch of oplog entries. If there are more than maxNumSyncSourceChangesPerHour source changes in an hour, the node temporarily stops re-evaluating that sync source. If this parameter is set with a high value, the node may make unnecessary source changes.

This parameter will not prevent a node from starting to sync from another node if it doesn't have a sync source. The node will re-evaluate if a sync source becomes invalid. Similarly, if the primary changes and chaining is disabled, the node will update to sync from the new primary.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

oplogFetcherUsesExhaust

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Enables or disables streaming replication. Set the value to true to enable streaming replication.

Set the value to false to disable streaming replication. If disabled, secondaries fetch batches of oplog entries by issuing a request to their sync from source and waiting for a response. This requires a network roundtrip for each batch of oplog entries.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

oplogInitialFindMaxSeconds

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 60

Maximum time in seconds for a member of a replica set to wait for the find command to finish during data synchronization.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

replWriterThreadCount

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 16

Maximum number of threads to use to apply replicated operations in parallel. Values can range from 1 to 256 inclusive. However, the maximum number of threads used is capped at twice the number of available cores.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Tip

See also:

replWriterMinThreadCount

replWriterMinThreadCount

New in version 5.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 0

Minimum number of threads to use to apply replicated operations in parallel. Values can range from 0 to 256 inclusive. You can only set replWriterMinThreadCount at startup and cannot change this setting with the setParameter command.

Parallel application of replication operations uses up to replWriterThreadCount threads. If replWriterMinThreadCount is configured with a value less than replWriterThreadCount, the thread pool will timeout idle threads until the total count of threads in the thread pool is equal to replWriterMinThreadCount.

replWriterMinThreadCount must be configured with a value that is less than or equal to replWriterThreadCount.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

rollbackTimeLimitSecs

Available for mongod only.

Type: 64-bit integer

Default: 86400 (1 day)

Maximum age of data that can be rolled back. Negative values for this parameter are not valid.

If the time between the end of the to-be-rolledback instance's oplog and the first operation after the common point (the last point where the source node and the to-be-rolledback node had the same data) exceeds this value, the rollback will fail.

To effectively have an unlimited rollback period, set the value to 2147483647 which is the maximum value allowed and equivalent to roughly 68 years.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 10

The length of time (in milliseconds) that a secondary must wait if the afterClusterTime is greater than the last applied time from the oplog. After the waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS passes, if the afterClusterTime is still greater than the last applied time, the secondary makes a no-op write to advance the last applied time.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets the waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS to 20 milliseconds:

mongod --setParameter waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS=20

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, waitForSecondaryBeforeNoopWriteMS: 20 } )

createRollbackDataFiles

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: true

Flag that determines whether MongoDB creates rollback files that contains documents affected during a rollback.

By default, createRollbackDataFiles is true and MongoDB creates the rollback files.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets createRollbackDataFiles to false so that the rollback files are not created:

mongod --setParameter createRollbackDataFiles=false

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, createRollbackDataFiles: false } )

For more information, see Collect Rollback Data.

replBatchLimitBytes

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Default: 104857600 (100MB)

Sets the maximum oplog application batch size in bytes.

Values can range from 16777216 (16MB) to 104857600 (100MB) inclusive.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets replBatchLimitBytes to 64 MB to limit the oplog application batch size:

mongod --setParameter replBatchLimitBytes=67108864

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, replBatchLimitBytes: 64 * 1024 * 1024 } )

mirrorReads

Available for mongod only.

Type: Document

Default: { samplingRate: 0.01, maxTimeMS: 1000 }

Specifies the settings for mirrored reads for the mongod instance. The settings only take effect when the member is a primary.

The parameter mirrorReads takes a JSON document with the following fields:

Field	Description
samplingRate	The sampling rate used to mirror a subset of operations that support mirroring to a subset of electable (specifically, priority greater than 0) secondaries. That is, the primary mirrors reads to each electable secondary at the specified sampling rate. Valid values are: 0.0 Turns off mirroring. 1.0 The primary mirrors all operations that supports mirroring to each electable secondary. Number between 0.0 and 1.0 (exclusive) The primary randomly samples each electable secondary at the specified rate to be sent mirrored reads. For example, given a replica set with a primary and two electable secondaries and a sampling rate of 0.10, the primary mirrors reads to each electable secondary at the sampling rate of 10 percent such that one read may be mirrored to one secondary and not to the other or to both or to neither. That is, if the primary receives 100 operations that can be mirrored, the sampling rate of 0.10 may result in 8 reads being mirrored to one secondary and 13 reads to the other or 10 to each, etc. The default value is 0.01.
maxTimeMS	The maximum time in milliseconds for the mirrored reads. The default value is 1000. The maxTimeMS for the mirrored reads is separate from the maxTimeMS of the original read being mirrored.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

If you specify from the configuration file or on the command line, enclose the mirrorReads document in quotes.

For example, the following sets the mirror reads sampling rate to 0.10 from the command line:

mongod --setParameter mirrorReads='{ samplingRate: 0.10 }'

Or, to specify in a configuration file:

setParameter:
   mirrorReads: '{samplingRate: 0.10}'

Or if using the setParameter command in a mongosh session that is connected to a running mongod, do not enclose the document in quotes:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, mirrorReads: { samplingRate: 0.10 } } )

allowMultipleArbiters

New in version 5.3.

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: false

Specifies whether the replica set allows the use of multiple arbiters.

The use of multiple arbiters is not recommended:

• Multiple arbiters prevent the reliable use of the majority write concern. MongoDB counts arbiters in calculating a membership majority, but arbiters do not store data. With the inclusion of multiple arbiters, it's possible for a majority write operation to return success before the write replicates to a majority of data bearing nodes.

• Multiple arbiters allow replica sets to accept writes even when the replica set doesn't have sufficient secondaries for data replication.

For more information, see Concerns with Multiple Arbiters.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

mongod --setParameter allowMultipleArbiters=true

Sharding Parameters

analyzeShardKeyCharacteristicsDefaultSampleSize

New in version 7.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 10000000

If sampleRate and sampleSize are not set when you run analyzeShardKey, specifies the number of documents to sample when calculating shard key characteristics metrics. Must be greater than 0.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets analyzeShardKeyCharacteristicsDefaultSampleSize to 10000 at startup:

mongod --setParameter analyzeShardKeyCharacteristicsDefaultSampleSize=10000

During run time, you can set or modify the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, analyzeShardKeyCharacteristicsDefaultSampleSize: 10000 } )

analyzeShardKeyNumMostCommonValues

New in version 7.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 5

Specifies the number of most common shard key values to return. If the collection contains fewer unique shard keys than this value, analyzeShardKeyNumMostCommonValues returns that number of most common values. Must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 1000.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets analyzeShardKeyNumMostCommonValues to 3 at startup:

mongod --setParameter analyzeShardKeyNumMostCommonValues=3

During run time, you can set or modify the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, analyzeShardKeyNumMostCommonValues: 3 } )

analyzeShardKeyNumRanges

New in version 7.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 100

Specifies the number of ranges to partition the shard key space into when calculating the hotness of shard key ranges. Must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 10000.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets analyzeShardKeyNumRanges to 50 at startup:

mongod --setParameter analyzeShardKeyNumRanges=50

During run time, you can set or modify the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, analyzeShardKeyNumRanges: 50 } )

analyzeShardKeyMonotonicityCorrelationCoefficientThreshold

New in version 7.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: double

Default: 0.7

Specifies the RecordId correlation coefficient threshold used to determine if a shard key is monotonically changing in insertion order. Must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 1.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets analyzeShardKeyMonotonicityCorrelationCoefficientThreshold to 1 at startup:

mongod --setParameter analyzeShardKeyMonotonicityCorrelationCoefficientThreshold=1

During run time, you can set or modify the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, analyzeShardKeyMonotonicityCorrelationCoefficientThreshold: 1 } )

autoMergerIntervalSecs

New in version 7.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 3600

When AutoMerger is enabled, specifies the amount of time between automerging rounds, in seconds. The default value is 3600 seconds, or one hour.

autoMergerIntervalSecs can only be set on config servers.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets autoMergerIntervalSecs to 7200 seconds, or two hours, at startup:

mongod --setParameter autoMergerIntervalSecs=7200

During run time, you can set or modify the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, autoMergerIntervalSecs: 7200 } )

autoMergerThrottlingMS

New in version 7.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 15000

When AutoMerger is enabled, specifies the minimum amount time between merges initiated by the AutoMerger on the same collection, in milliseconds.

autoMergerThrottlingMS can only be set on config servers.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets autoMergerThrottlingMS to 60000 milliseconds, or one minute, at startup:

mongod --setParameter autoMergerThrottlingMS=60000

During run time, you can set or modify the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, autoMergerThrottlingMS: 60000 } )

balancerMigrationsThrottlingMs

New in version 7.0: (Also available starting in 6.3.1, 6.0.6, 5.0.18)

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 1000

Specifies the minimum amount of time between two consecutive balancing rounds. This allows you to throttle the balancing rate. This parameter only takes effect on config server nodes.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets balancerMigrationsThrottlingMs to 2000 milliseconds at startup:

mongod --setParameter balancerMigrationsThrottlingMs=2000

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, balancerMigrationsThrottlingMs: 2000 } )

chunkDefragmentationThrottlingMS

New in version 5.3.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 0

Specifies the minimum time period (in milliseconds) between consecutive split and merge commands run by the balancer when the chunks in a sharded collection are defragmented. chunkDefragmentationThrottlingMS limits the rate of split and merge commands.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets chunkDefragmentationThrottlingMS to 10 milliseconds:

mongod --setParameter chunkDefragmentationThrottlingMS=10

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, chunkDefragmentationThrottlingMS: 10 } )

chunkMigrationConcurrency

Available starting in MongoDB 7.0, 6.3, 6.0.6 (and 5.0.15).

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 1

Specifies an integer that sets the number of threads on the source shard and the receiving shard for chunk migration. Chunk migrations use the number of threads that you set on the receiving shard for both the source and receiving shard.

Increasing the concurrency improves chunk migration performance, but also increases the workload and disk IOPS usage on the source shard and the receiving shard.

Maximum value is 500.

You should typically use half the total number of CPU cores as threads. For example, if the total is 16 cores, set chunkMigrationConcurrency to 8 threads (or fewer).

If chunkMigrationConcurrency is greater than 1, the _secondaryThrottle configuration setting is ignored. The _secondaryThrottle setting determines when the chunk migration proceeds with the next document in the chunk. For details, see Range Migration and Replication.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets chunkMigrationConcurrency to 5:

mongod --setParameter chunkMigrationConcurrency=5

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, chunkMigrationConcurrency: 5 } )

To configure collection balancing, see configureCollectionBalancing.

To learn about defragmenting sharded collections, see Defragment Sharded Collections.

disableResumableRangeDeleter

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: false

If set on a shard's primary, specifies if range deletion is paused on the shard. If set to true, cleanup of ranges containing orphaned documents is paused. The shard can continue to donate chunks to other shards, but the donated documents will not be removed from this shard until you set this parameter to false. This shard can continue to receive chunks from other shards as long as it does not have a pending range deletion task in the config.rangeDeletions collection that overlaps with the incoming chunk's range.

When disableResumableRangeDeleter is true, chunk migrations fail if orphaned documents exist on the recipient shard's primary in the same range as the incoming chunks.

The parameter has no effect on the mongod if it is not the shard's primary.

Important

If you set disableResumableRangeDeleter parameter to true, ensure that you apply it consistently for all members in the shard's replica set. In the event of a failover, this setting's value on the new primary dictates the behavior of the range deleter.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

mongod --setParameter disableResumableRangeDeleter=false

enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck

Available for mongod only.

Type: boolean

Default: true

If set on the config server's primary, enables or disables the index consistency check for sharded collections. The parameter has no effect on the mongod if it is not the config server's primary.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

The following example sets enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck to false for a config server primary:

mongod --setParameter enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck=false

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck: false } )

Tip

See also:

• shardedIndexConsistencyCheckIntervalMS parameter

• shardedIndexConsistency metrics returned by the serverStatus command.

opportunisticSecondaryTargeting

New in version 6.1.0.

Available for mongos only.

Type: boolean

Default: false

Determines whether mongos performs opportunistic reads against replica sets.

When this parameter is set to true, mongos directs secondary reads to secondaries with active connections. It sends the request to the first secondary that accepts the connection. When this parameter is set to false, mongos holds secondary reads until it can establish a connection to a specific secondary, (except in the case of hedged reads).

Note

Under certain workloads, opportunistic reads may trigger the opening of unnecessary connections from mongos to mongod and reduce overall performance. This parameter should not be enabled unless your application has a specific need for the feature.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, to set opportunisticSecondaryTargeting during startup:

mongos --setParameter opportunisticSecondaryTargeting=true

shardedIndexConsistencyCheckIntervalMS

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 600000

If set on the config server's primary, the interval, in milliseconds, at which the config server's primary checks the index consistency of sharded collections. The parameter has no effect on the mongod if it is not the config server's primary.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

For example, the following sets the interval at 300000 milliseconds (5 minutes) at startup:

mongod --setParameter shardedIndexConsistencyCheckIntervalMS=300000

Tip

See also:

• enableShardedIndexConsistencyCheck parameter

• shardedIndexConsistency metrics returned by the serverStatus command.

enableFinerGrainedCatalogCacheRefresh

Note

Deprecated in 8.0

Starting in MongoDB 8.0, the parameter is deprecated and doesn't cause any changes or errors.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: boolean

Default: true

This parameter allows the catalog cache to be refreshed only if the shard needs to be refreshed. If disabled, any stale chunk will cause the entire chunk distribution for a collection to be considered stale and force all routers who contact the shard to refresh their shard catalog cache.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

mongod --setParameter enableFinerGrainedCatalogCacheRefresh=true
mongos --setParameter enableFinerGrainedCatalogCacheRefresh=true

Tip

See also:

• Sharding

• shardingStatistics.catalogCache

maxTimeMSForHedgedReads

Important

Starting in MongoDB 8.0, hedged reads are deprecated. Queries that specify the read preference nearest no longer use hedged reads by default. If you explicitly specify a hedged read, MongoDB performs a hedged read and logs a warning.

Available for mongos only.

Type: integer

Default: 150

Specifies the maximum time limit (in milliseconds) for the hedged read. That is, the additional read sent to hedge the read operation uses the maxTimeMS value of maxTimeMSForHedgedReads while the read operation that is being hedged uses the maxTimeMS value specified for the operation.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, to set the limit to 200 milliseconds, you can issue the following during startup:

mongos --setParameter maxTimeMSForHedgedReads=200

Or if using the setParameter command in a mongosh session that is connected to a running mongos:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, maxTimeMSForHedgedReads: 200 } )

Tip

See also:

• readHedgingMode

• Hedged Reads

maxCatchUpPercentageBeforeBlockingWrites

New in version 5.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 10

For moveChunk and moveRange operations, specifies the maximum percentage of untrasferred data allowed by the migration protocol (expressed in percentage of the total chunk size) to transition from the catchup phase to the commit phase.

Setting a higher catchup percentage can decrease the amount of time it takes for the migration to complete at the cost of increased latency during concurrent upsert and delete operations.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Starting in MongoDB 7.1 (and 7.0.1), you can set the parameter during runtime.

For example, to set the maximum percentage to 20, you can issue the following during startup:

mongod --setParameter maxCatchUpPercentageBeforeBlockingWrites=20

Starting in MongoDB 7.1 (and 7.0.1), you can set the parameter during runtime with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, maxCatchUpPercentageBeforeBlockingWrites: 20} )

Tip

See also:

Live Migration Protocol

metadataRefreshInTransactionMaxWaitBehindCritSecMS

New in version 5.2: (Also available starting in 5.1.0, 5.0.4)

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 500

Limits the time a shard waits for a critical section within a transaction.

When a query accesses a shard, a chunk migration or DDL operation may already hold the critical section for the collection. If the query finds the critical section is taken, the shard waits until the critical section has been released. When the shard returns control to mongos, mongos retries the query. However, if a multi-shard transaction interacts with an operation that takes the critical section on multiple shards, the interaction can result in a distributed deadlock.

metadataRefreshInTransactionMaxWaitBehindCritSecMS limits the maximum time a shard waits within a transaction for the critical section to be released.

To reduce the maximum wait time for the critical section within a transaction, lower the value of metadataRefreshInTransactionMaxWaitBehindCritSecMS.

Warning

If metadataRefreshInTransactionMaxWaitBehindCritSecMS is too low, mongos could use all of its retry attempts and return an error.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

For example, to set metadataRefreshInTransactionMaxWaitBehindCritSecMS to 400 milliseconds:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, metadataRefreshInTransactionMaxWaitBehindCritSecMS: 400 } )

queryAnalysisSamplerConfigurationRefreshSecs

New in version 7.0.

Changed in version 7.0.1.

Available for both mongod and mongos.

Type: integer

Default: 10

Interval that a sampler (mongos or mongod) refreshes its query analyzer sample rates.

The sample rate configured by the configureQueryAnalyzer command is divided among mongos instances in the sharded cluster or mongod instances in the replica set based on the traffic going through them. To make the sample rate assignment for a mongos or mongod more responsive to the traffic going through it, decrease this value.

We recommend using the default value.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Starting in MongoDB 7.0.1, you can set queryAnalysisSamplerConfigurationRefreshSecs during run time.

This example sets queryAnalysisSamplerConfigurationRefreshSecs to 60 seconds at startup on a mongod instance:

mongod --setParameter queryAnalysisSamplerConfigurationRefreshSecs=60

This example sets queryAnalysisSamplerConfigurationRefreshSecs to 60 seconds at startup on a mongos instance:

mongos --setParameter queryAnalysisSamplerConfigurationRefreshSecs=60

To set the value to 30 seconds, run the following:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, queryAnalysisSamplerConfigurationRefreshSecs: 30 } )

queryAnalysisWriterIntervalSecs

New in version 7.0.

Changed in version 7.0.1.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 90

Interval that sampled queries are written to disk, in seconds.

This parameter is only available at startup. To set the parameter, use the setParameter setting.

Starting in MongoDB 7.0.1, you can set queryAnalysisWriterIntervalSecs during run time.

This example sets queryAnalysisWriterIntervalSecs to 60 seconds at startup on a mongod instance:

mongod --setParameter queryAnalysisWriterIntervalSecs=60
To set the value to 60 seconds, run the following:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, queryAnalysisWriterIntervalSecs: 60 } )

queryAnalysisWriterMaxMemoryUsageBytes

New in version 7.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 100 * 1024 * 1024

Maximum amount of memory in bytes that the query sampling writer is allowed to use. Once the limit is reached, all new queries and diffs are discarded from sampling until the buffer is flushed. Must be greater than 0.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets queryAnalysisWriterMaxMemoryUsageBytes to 10000000 at startup on a mongod instance:

mongod --setParameter queryAnalysisWriterMaxMemoryUsageBytes=10000000

queryAnalysisWriterMaxBatchSize

New in version 7.0.

Available for mongod only.

Type: integer

Default: 100000

Maximum number of sampled queries to write to disk at once. Must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 100000.

This parameter is available both at runtime and at startup:

• To set the parameter at runtime, use the setParameter command

• To set the parameter at startup, use the setParameter setting

This example sets queryAnalysisWriterMaxBatchSize to 1000 at startup on a mongod instance:

mongod --setParameter queryAnalysisWriterMaxBatchSize=1000

During run time, you can also set the parameter with the setParameter command:

db.adminCommand( { setParameter: 1, queryAnalysisWriterMaxBatchSize: 1000 } )