DOCS-15218 Exclude lower-level fields from serverStatus output (#1038)

* DOCS-15218 non-top-level fields excluded in serverStatus

* DOCS-15218 non-top-level fields excluded in serverStatus

* DOCS-15218 non-top-level fields excluded in serverStatus

* DOCS-15218 nit change

* DOCS-15218 internal review changes

* DOCS-15218 internal review changes

* DOCS-15218 internal review changes

* DOCS-15218 internal review changes

* DOCS-15218 internal review changes

* DOCS-15218 tech changes

* DOCS-15218 corrected backport version

* DOCS-15218 updated nit languaged and behavior description

Co-authored-by: Jocelyn Mendez <[email protected]>

Author: jocelyn-mendez1

source/includes/extracts-server-status-projection-base.yaml

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ content: |
   - :ref:`server-status-mirroredReads` document. (*Available starting in version 4.4*)
 
   To include fields that are excluded by default, specify the top-level
-  field and set it to ``1`` in the command. To exclude fields that are
-  included by default, specify the top-level field and set to ``0`` in
-  the command.
+  field and set it to ``1`` in the command. To exclude fields that are included 
+  by default, specify the field and set to 0. You can specify either top-level 
+  or embedded fields. 
 ...

source/reference/command.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.. _database-commands:
+4.. _database-commands:
 
 =================
 Database Commands

source/reference/command/serverStatus.txt

@@ -61,13 +61,21 @@ Behavior
 
 .. include:: /includes/extracts/serverStatus-command-projection.rst
 
-For example, the following operation suppresses the ``repl``,
+For example, the following operation excludes the ``repl``,
 ``metrics`` and ``locks`` information in the output.
 
 .. code-block:: javascript
 
    db.runCommand( { serverStatus: 1, repl: 0, metrics: 0, locks: 0 } )
 
+
+For example, the following operation excludes the embedded ``histogram`` 
+field in the output.
+
+.. code-block:: javascript
+
+   db.runCommand( { serverStatus: 1, metrics: { query: { multiPlanner: { histograms: false } } } } )
+
 The following example includes
 all :ref:`server-status-repl` information in the output:
 

source/release-notes/6.0.txt

@@ -106,6 +106,12 @@ Starting in MongoDB 6.0, you can use :ref:`change streams
 after changes (the document pre- and post-images). For examples, see
 :ref:`db.collection.watch-change-streams-pre-and-post-images-example`.
 
+Exclude Embedded Fields in ``serverStatus`` Output
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Starting in MongoDB 6.0 (and 5.0.9, 4.4.15), you can exclude embedded fields 
+from the :dbcommand:`serverStatus` output.
+
 Connections
 ~~~~~~~~~~~