MongoDB Log Levels

Question

In mongodb you can set the log level to between 0 and 5. I was wondering what the general behavior of each of these levels was and what level it should be set at to keep from logging inserts. Its annoying to go through a log when you get around 600ips.

Answer 1

Actually this is probably a function of the --slowms setting rather than the logging level - the default is 100ms. Increase that and the number of logged inserts should decrease. It's discussed, with examples, here:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Database+Profiler#DatabaseProfiler-EnablingProfiling

Answer 2

Well I think I solved it. Even though mongodb was reporting a log level of 0 it apparently wasnt. When I started playing with the log levels I tried various number to look for changes in the log. But when I set it back to 0 it stopped logging the inserts.