WiredTiger debug tools

Collection of tools to debug and analyze MongoDB WiredTiger files

Installation

Dependencies

In order to use the provided debug tools you need to install wt binary on your system.

You can either use your system package manager. E.g.

apt install wiredtiger

Or compile wt from source

If you compiled wt from source, make sure to add the installation folder to your PATH environment variable.

Package

The wiredtiger-debug-tools package is available on PyPI

pip install wiredtiger-debug-tools

Usage

wtd tool

• Print list of collections contained in the _mdb_catalog

wtd list-collections

• Inspect content of a specific collection:

wtd cat local.oplog.rs

With FZF

You can use FZF to interactively select the the collection to open

wtd cat `wtd list-collections | fzf | cut -d " " -f1`

CLI Autocompletion

To enable CLI auto-completion on ZSH shell run:

eval "$(_WTD_COMPLETE=zsh_source wtd)"

On Bash shell:

eval "$(_WTD_COMPLETE=bash_source wtd)"