Make sort and group execution stages report number of spills to disk in explain

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Major - P3
    • 5.0.0-rc0
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    • Component/s: Querying
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    • Query Execution 2021-05-03, Query Execution 2021-05-17, Query Execution 2021-05-31
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      Work done under SERVER-51026 recently extended the query execution systems runtime stats to track the individual number of times that a sort stage spills to disk. However, explain currently only reports whether a SORT PlanStage used disk with a boolean; if disk was used, we don't indicate the number of times that we spilled sorted data to disk. We should take advantage of the work done in SERVER-51026 and report this "spills" metric for the SORT stage.

      Additionally, it would be good to report this as a runtime stat for the $sort DocumentSource. We could also make a similar extension and report the number of spills for a $group. This could build on the work done in SERVER-48380 and SERVER-49027 to add additional runtime stats for $sort and $group to agg explain output.

            Assignee:
            Denis Grebennicov
            Reporter:
            David Storch
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