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How to speed up MongoDB queries with Studio 3T’s Performance Suite

Learn how to boost MongoDB performance with Studio 3T’s Performance Suite and find slow running queries and optimize indexes

Posted on: 28/11/2023 (last updated: 11/12/2023) • Kirsty Burgess • 4 minutes

Time Series Collections in Studio 3T

MongoDB’s Time Series collections are a way of more efficiently indexing and storing the data which makes up a time series, without the overhead of each data point containing multiple repetitions of the same fields.  There are three components to a time series record. Firstly, it includes the acquisition time for the data. Then identification […]

Posted on: 31/10/2022 • Dj Walker-Morgan • 3 minutes

Studio 3T defaults to the Mongosh shell

TL;DR: Mongosh is the bundled, default shell for Studio 3T. If you haven’t set your preferred MongoDB Shell in Studio 3T or use only Studio 3T bundled Mongo shells, your Studio 3T automatically updates to the new default MongoDB Shell. If you previously set your preferred MongoDB Shell to anything that was not a Mongo […]

Posted on: 31/10/2022 (last updated: 10/06/2024) • Dj Walker-Morgan • 2 minutes

IntelliShell: Working with Query Assist off

How to see more results when Query Assist is off in Studio 3T’s IntelliShell.

Posted on: 15/09/2022 (last updated: 12/01/2023) • Dj Walker-Morgan • 2 minutes

IntelliShell Script Tasks

IntelliShell Script Tasks allow scripts to be loaded from disk and run on a schedule with their output saved to disk.  An IntelliShell Script Task is made up of multiple IntelliShell Script units. When the Task is run, each unit will be executed sequentially. An IntelliShell Script Unit is made up of two components: The […]

Posted on: 01/09/2022 (last updated: 25/06/2025) • Dj Walker-Morgan • 6 minutes