Check MongoDB Version in Windows / 🐧 Linux

To check mongodb version use the mongod command with –version option.

To check MongoDB Server version on Linux, open the terminal and execute the following command:

mongod --version

Or for shell version:

mongo -version

And for Windows (unless you’ve set MongoDB Path) you have to use the full path to the mongod.exe and mongo.exe to check mongodb version:

"C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server.4\bin\mongod.exe" --version
db version v4.4.1
git version: 876ebee8c7dd0e2d992f36a848ff4dc50ee6603e
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2u-fips  22 Sep 2016
allocator: tcmalloc
modules: none
build environment:
    distmod: 2008plus-ssl
    distarch: x86_64
    target_arch: x86_64

and if you’ve set the MongoDB Path: