# Kill COLLSCANs
Symptom: a query is slow; you suspect no index is used.
## Diagnose
```js
db.orders.explain("executionStats").find({ status: "pending", createdAt: { $gte: start } })
```
Read the winning plan. `COLLSCAN` means every document was examined. Note `totalDocsExamined` and `executionTimeMillis`.
## Confirm
The filter fields have no index, or the existing index does not cover the filter (wrong field order, or the query filters on a field the index lacks).
## Fix
```js
db.orders.createIndex({ status: 1, createdAt: -1 })
```
Order matters: equality fields first, then sort/range fields. For a sort without a filter, index the sort keys in the sort direction.
## Verify
Re-run `explain`: the stage is now IXSCAN, `totalDocsExamined` is close to `nReturned`, and `executionTimeMillis` dropped. Run the app query and confirm the latency improvement end to end.