How to show the number of MongoDB open database connections (using the lsof command)

As a quick note, there are probably better ways to do this, but the only way I've found so far to see the number of open MongoDB database connections is to look at it from the Unix/Linux command line, using the lsof command:

$ sudo lsof | grep mongod | grep TCP
mongod    5733             Al    6u     IPv4 0x08761278       0t0       TCP *:28017 (LISTEN)
mongod    5733             Al    7u     IPv4 0x07c7eb98       0t0       TCP *:27017 (LISTEN)
mongod    5733             Al    9u     IPv4 0x08761688       0t0       TCP 192.168.1.103:27017->192.168.1.103:64752 (ESTABLISHED)
mongod    5733             Al   12u     IPv4 0x08761a98       0t0       TCP 192.168.1.103:27017->192.168.1.103:64754 (ESTABLISHED)
mongod    5733             Al   13u     IPv4 0x095fa748       0t0       TCP 192.168.1.103:27017->192.168.1.103:64770 (ESTABLISHED)
mongod    5733             Al   14u     IPv4 0x095f86c8       0t0       TCP 192.168.1.103:27017->192.168.1.103:64775 (ESTABLISHED)
mongod    5733             Al   17u     IPv4 0x08764748       0t0       TCP 192.168.1.103:27017->192.168.1.103:64777 (ESTABLISHED)

This shows that I currently have five connections open to the MongoDB port (27017) on my computer. In my case I'm connecting to MongoDB from a Scalatra server, and I'm using the MongoDB Casbah driver, but you'll see the same lsof TCP connections regardless of the client used (as long as they're connecting using TCP/IP).