MongoDB

Run MongoDB

To run MongoDB (i.e. the mongod process) as a macOS service, issue the following:

brew services start mongodb-community@4.2

To run MongoDB manually as a background process, issue the following:

mongod --config /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf --fork

Both methods use the /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf file created during the install. You can add your own MongoDB configuration options to this file as well.

To verify that MongoDB is running, search for mongod in your running processes:

ps aux | grep -v grep | grep mongod

You can also view the log file to see the current status of your mongod process: /usr/local/var/log/mongodb/mongo.log.