Emergency Console

In Case Of Disaster

The following command starts an emergency console.

Note: Never start the emergency console for a database which also has a server attached to it. In general the ArangoDB shell is what you want.

> ./arangod --console --log error /tmp/vocbase
ArangoDB shell [V8 version 3.9.4, DB version 1.x.y]

arango> 1 + 2;
3

arango> var db = require("org/arangodb").db; db.geo.count();
703

The emergency console provides a JavaScript console directly running in the arangod server process. This allows to debug and examine collections and documents as with the normal ArangoDB shell, but without client/server communication.

However, it is very likely that you will never need the emergency console unless you are an ArangoDB developer.