A list of indices in MongoDB?

Question

Is there a way to see a list of indices on a collection in mongodb in shell? i read through http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Indexes but i dont see anything

Answer 1

You can also output all your indexes together with their size:

db.collectionName.stats().indexSizes

Also check that db.collectionName.stats() gives you a lot of interesting information like paddingFactor, size of the collection and number of elements inside of it.