Often, you simply want to get status information on MongoDB, in which case the database is irrelevant. In this example, we use the --eval flag to run the command db.serverStatus():
In other cases, you might want to run periodic database queries from a cron job. Here is an example where we check for customers in the sweetscomplete database whose balance is 0:
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