/etc/mongodb.conf

# mongodb.conf 

# Where to store the data.
dbpath=/var/lib/mongodb

#where to log
logpath=/var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log

logappend=true

bind_ip = 127.0.0.1
#port = 27017

# Enable journaling, http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Journaling
journal=true

# Enables periodic logging of CPU utilization and I/O wait
#cpu = true

# Turn on/off security.  Off is currently the default
#noauth = true
#auth = true

# Verbose logging output.
#verbose = true

# Inspect all client data for validity on receipt (useful for
# developing drivers)
#objcheck = true

# Enable db quota management
#quota = true

# Set diagnostic logging level where n is
#   0=off (default)

1. 1=W
2. 2=R
3. 3=both
4. 7=W+some reads
5. diaglog = 0

1. Diagnostic/debugging option
2. nocursors = true

1. Ignore query hints
2. nohints = true

1. Disable the HTTP interface (Defaults to localhost:27018).
2. nohttpinterface = true

1. Turns off server-side scripting. This will result in greatly limited
2. functionality
3. noscripting = true

1. Turns off table scans. Any query that would do a table scan fails.
2. notablescan = true

1. Disable data file preallocation.
2. noprealloc = true

1. Specify .ns file size for new databases.
2. nssize = <size>

1. Accout token for Mongo monitoring server.
2. mms-token = <token>

1. Server name for Mongo monitoring server.
2. mms-name = <server-name>

1. Ping interval for Mongo monitoring server.
2. mms-interval = <seconds>

1. Replication Options

1. in replicated mongo databases, specify here whether this is a slave or master
2. slave = true
3. source = master.example.com
4. Slave only: specify a single database to replicate
5. only = master.example.com
6. or
7. master = true
8. source = slave.example.com

1. Address of a server to pair with.
2. pairwith = <server:port>
3. Address of arbiter server.
4. arbiter = <server:port>
5. Automatically resync if slave data is stale
6. autoresync
7. Custom size for replication operation log.
8. oplogSize = <MB>
9. Size limit for in-memory storage of op ids.
10. opIdMem = <bytes>

1. SSL options
2. Enable SSL on normal ports
3. sslOnNormalPorts = true
4. SSL Key file and password
5. sslPEMKeyFile = /etc/ssl/mongodb.pem
6. sslPEMKeyPassword = pass

See also

• MongoDB: MongoDB Compass, mongo, mongodump, mongorestore, mongoexport, MongoDB changelog, MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator, GridFS, MongoDB Atlas, MongoDB replication, Ops Manager, docker logs mongodb, show collections, show dbs, mongo --help