I highly recommend augmenting the shell with mongo hacker http://tylerbrock.github.io/mongo-hacker/ http://tylerbrock.github.io/mongo-hacker/ Internally we use

I highly recommend augmenting the shell with mongo hacker http://tylerbrock.github.io/mongo-hacker/ http://tylerbrock.github.io/mongo-hacker/ Internally we use a modified version that sorts object keys before displaying, and recognises various time fields from our schema showing the values in localtime.