Author: Kirsty Burgess

Kirsty Burgess is a technical writer with experience in the financial, telecommunications, and software industries. At 3T Software Labs, she collaborates closely with UX designers, developers, QA engineers, and product managers, to gather information and produce clear, user-focused content, including in-app messaging, knowledge base articles, release notes, and blog posts.

13 Most Common MongoDB Commands

Here’s a list of frequently-used MongoDB commands, replaced by a few clicks through Studio 3T’s context menus.

Posted on: 22/01/2019 (last updated: 17/03/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 4 minutes

Schema Validator

Use Studio 3T’s Schema Validator to apply JSON Schema, the recommended way of performing MongoDB schema validation on a collection.

Posted on: 23/11/2018 (last updated: 28/05/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 4 minutes

Read-Only Mode

Secure your data with Read-Only Mode, which can be set for a specific collection or an entire connection.

Posted on: 22/11/2018 (last updated: 16/07/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • < 1

Visual Query Builder

Visual Query Builder allows you to build queries by dragging and dropping fields. No need to know MongoDB query syntax!

Posted on: 19/11/2018 (last updated: 27/02/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 5 minutes

MongoDB Enterprise Authentication Methods: LDAP, OIDC, and Kerberos

Learn about LDAP and Kerberos, the two authentication methods supported by the MongoDB Enterprise server.

Posted on: 24/07/2018 (last updated: 07/04/2025) • Kirsty Burgess • 2 minutes

Find slow queries in MongoDB with Query Profiler

Learn about the Query Profiler and the MongoDB Database Profiler: how you can collect profiling data to investigate and optimize query performance in MongoDB.

Posted on: 19/06/2018 (last updated: 17/01/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 16 minutes

Check MongoDB Schema with Schema Explorer

Schema Explorer makes it easy to visualize data distributions, find schema anomalies, and generate schema documentation which can be exported as a Word or CSV file.

Posted on: 18/06/2018 (last updated: 16/10/2023) • Kirsty Burgess • 4 minutes

Table View

Table View is the spreadsheet view that supports advanced features like showing embedded fields, stepping into array-valued columns, and hiding columns – even when dealing with large datasets.

Posted on: 02/05/2018 (last updated: 28/10/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 3 minutes

IntelliShell

IntelliShell is the built-in mongo shell interface with smart auto-completion of collection names, shell methods, document key names, operators, and field names.

Posted on: 30/04/2018 (last updated: 18/12/2024) • Kirsty Burgess • 6 minutes