# MongoDB\Driver\Monitoring\CommandStartedEvent::getCommand

(mongodb >=1.3.0)

MongoDB\Driver\Monitoring\CommandStartedEvent::getCommand — Returns the command document

### Description

final public MongoDB\Driver\Monitoring\CommandStartedEvent::getCommand ( ) : object

The reply document will be converted from BSON to PHP using the default deserialization rules (e.g. BSON documents will be converted to stdClass).

### Parameters

This function has no parameters.

### Return Values

Returns the command document as a stdClass object.

### Errors/Exceptions

- Throws MongoDB\Driver\Exception\InvalidArgumentException on argument parsing errors.

### See Also

- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Persisting Data