Get Suggested Indexes

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Request Path Parameters
Request Query Parameters
Request Body Parameters
Response
Example Request
Example Response

Retrieves any suggested indexes generated by the Atlas Performance Advisor.

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {GROUP-ID} is the same as your project ID. For existing groups, your group/project ID remains the same. The resource and corresponding endpoints use the term groups.

The Atlas Administration API authenticates using HTTP Digest Authentication. Provide a programmatic API public key and corresponding private key as the username and password when constructing the HTTP request. To learn how to configure API access for an Atlas project, see Get Started with the Atlas Administration API.

https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0

Resource

GET /groups/{GROUP-ID}/processes/{PROCESS-ID}/performanceAdvisor/suggestedIndexes

Request Path Parameters

Path Element	Description
`GROUP-ID`	Unique identifier for the project.
`PROCESS-ID`	The Atlas hostname and port, e.g. `m10-shard-00-00-17jcm.mongodb.net:27017`. To retrieve all processes in the project with a given `GROUP-ID`, use the /groups/{GROUP-ID}/processes endpoint.

Request Query Parameters

Name

Type

Necessity

Description

Default

pretty

boolean

Optional

Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.

false

envelope

boolean

Optional

Flag indicating if Atlas should wrap the response in a JSON envelope.

This option may be needed for some API clients. These clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query.

For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes:


status	HTTP response code
envelope	Expected response body

false


since	number	Optional	Timestamp in the number of seconds that have elapsed since the UNIX epoch from which to retrieve suggested indexes.
duration	number	Optional	Length of time in milliseconds during which to find suggested indexes among the managed namespaces in the cluster.
namespaces	string	Optional	Namespaces from which to retrieve suggested indexes. A namespace consists of the database and collection resource separated by a `.`, such as `<database>.<collection>`. To specify multiple namespaces, pass the parameter multiple times using an ampersand (`&`) as a delimiter, once for each namespace. Example ?namespaces=data.stocks&namespaces=data.zips&pretty=true Omit to return results for all namespaces.
nIndexes	number	Optional	Maximum number of indexes to suggest.	Unlimited
nExamples	number	Optional	Maximum number of examples queries to provide that will be improved by a suggested index.	`5`

Note

If you specify since and omit duration, the response contains results from the since point up to and including the present time.
If you specify duration and omit since, the response contains results from duration ms ago up to and including the present time.
If you omit both since and duration, the response contains results from the previous 24 hours up up to and including the present time.

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.

Response

Name	Type	Description
`shapes`	array of documents	Documents with information about the query shapes that are served by the suggested indexes.
`shapes[n].avgMs`	number	Average duration in milliseconds for the queries examined that match this shape.
`shapes[n].count`	number	Number of queries examined that match this shape.
`shapes[n].id`	objectId	Unique id for this shape. Exists only for the duration of the API request.
`shapes[n].inefficiencyScore`	number	Average number of documents read for every document returned by the query. For more information, see Understanding the Query Inefficiency Score.
`shapes[n].namespace`	string	Namespace searched by the queries in this shape.
`shapes[n].operations`	array of documents	Documents with specific information and log lines for individual queries.
`shapes[n].operations[n].predicates`	array of documents	Documents containing the search criteria used by the query. Values in key-value pairs will be redacted in these predicates unless the user has Project Data Access Read Only permissions or higher.
`shapes[n].operations[n].raw`	string	Raw log line produced by the query.
`shapes[n].operations[n].stats`	document	Query statistics.
`shapes[n].operations[n].stats.ms`	number	Duration in milliseconds of the query.
`shapes[n].operations[n].stats.nReturned`	number	Number of results returned by the query.
`shapes[n].stats.nScanned`	number	Number of documents read by the query.
`shapes[n].stats.ts`	number	Query timestamp, in seconds since epoch.
`suggestedIndexes`	array of documents	Documents with information about the indexes suggested by the Performance Advisor.
`suggestedIndexes[n].id`	objectId	Unique id for this suggested index.
`suggestedIndexes[n].impact`	array of objectIds	List of unique identifers which correspond the query shapes in this response which pertain to this suggested index. Note This field does not correspond to Impact in the Performance Advisor user interface.
`suggestedIndexes[n].index`	array of documents	Each array element is a document that specifies a key in the index and its sort order, ascending or descending. A value of 1 indicates an ascending sort order. A value of -1 indicates a descending sort order. Keys in indexes with multiple keys appear in the same order that they appear in the index.
`suggestedIndexes[n].index.<fieldname>`	string	Specific field to be indexed.
`suggestedIndexes[n].namespace`	string	Namespace of the suggested index.
`suggestedIndexes[n].weight`	number	Estimated percentage performance improvement in decimal form that the suggested index would provide. Corresponds to Impact in the Performance Advisor user interface.
`suggestedIndexes[n].dismissedFromAutoCreation`	boolean	Indicates whether this index suggestion was manually dismissed from auto-creation. This field is only present when the value is `true`.

Example Request

curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest -i \
     --header "Accept: application/json" \
     --request GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v1.0/groups/{GROUP-ID}/processes/{PROCESS-ID}/performanceAdvisor/suggestedIndexes?namespaces=test.users&namespaces=test.inventory&pretty=true"

Example Response

{
  "shapes" : [ {
    "avgMs" : 42,
    "count" : 2,
    "id" : "5b74689a80eef53f3388897e",
    "inefficiencyScore" : 50000,
    "namespace" : "test.users",
    "operations" : [ {
      "predicates" : [{ "find" : { "emails" : "la@sa.kp" } }],
      "raw" : "2018-08-15T17:14:11.115+0000 I COMMAND  [conn4576] command test.users appName: \"MongoDB Shell\" command: find { find: \"users\", filter: { emails: \"la@sa.kp\" }, lsid: { id: UUID(\"1a4e71d3-9b67-4e9c-b078-9fdf3fae9091\") }, $clusterTime: { clusterTime: Timestamp(1534353241, 1), signature: { hash: BinData(0, AB91938B7CF7BC87994A2909A98D87F29101EFA0), keyId: 6589681559618453505 } }, $db: \"test\" } planSummary: COLLSCAN keysExamined:0 docsExamined:50000 cursorExhausted:1 numYields:391 nreturned:1 reslen:339 locks:{ Global: { acquireCount: { r: 784 } }, Database: { acquireCount: { r: 392 } }, Collection: { acquireCount: { r: 392 } } } protocol:op_msg 34ms",
      "stats" : {
        "ms" : 34,
        "nReturned" : 1,
        "nScanned" : 50000,
        "ts" : 1534353251147
      }
    }, {
      "predicates" : [{ "find" : { "emails" : "tocde@fijoow.to" } }],
      "raw" : "2018-08-15T17:14:18.665+0000 I COMMAND  [conn4576] command test.users appName: \"MongoDB Shell\" command: find { find: \"users\", filter: { emails: \"tocde@fijoow.to\" }, lsid: { id: UUID(\"1a4e71d3-9b67-4e9c-b078-9fdf3fae9091\") }, $clusterTime: { clusterTime: Timestamp(1534353241, 1), signature: { hash: BinData(0, AB91938B7CF7BC87994A2909A98D87F29101EFA0), keyId: 6589681559618453505 } }, $db: \"test\" } planSummary: COLLSCAN keysExamined:0 docsExamined:50000 cursorExhausted:1 numYields:390 nreturned:1 reslen:342 locks:{ Global: { acquireCount: { r: 782 } }, Database: { acquireCount: { r: 391 } }, Collection: { acquireCount: { r: 391 } } } protocol:op_msg 36ms",
      "stats" : {
        "ms" : 36,
        "nReturned" : 1,
        "nScanned" : 50000,
        "ts" : 1534353258697
      }
    } ]
  } ],
  "suggestedIndexes" : [ {
    "id" : "5b74689a80eef53f3388897f",
    "impact" : [ "5b74689a80eef53f3388897e" ],
    "index" : [ {
      "emails" : 1
    } ],
    "namespace" : "test.users",
    "weight" : 0.372204809018156
  }, {
    "id" : "5b74689a80eef53f33888980",
    "impact" : [ "5b74689a80eef53f3388897d" ],
    "index" : [ {
      "email" : 1
    } ],
    "namespace" : "test.inventory",
    "weight" : 0.190375783099664
  } ]
}

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