Oplog Access

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Important

Serverless instances don't support this feature at this time. To learn more, see Serverless Instance Limitations.

The oplog, a special capped collection, records operations that modify the data stored in your databases.

To access the oplog, a database user must have read access on the local database. To create a user with read access on local:

In the Security section of the left navigation, click Database Access.
Click the Database Users tab.
Click Add New Database User and enter a user name such as oploguser.
Click Grant Specific Privileges and select the read role and the local database. This restricts the user to read operations on the local database.
Enter a password and click Add User.

Connect to your cluster with the mongosh, using the credentials of the new database user with access to the local database.
Switch to the local database.
```
> use local
```
The oplog collection is named oplog.rs. Database write operations are recorded in date order, with a timestamp field and a wall clock field.
The timestamp field contains an integer with seconds since epoch.