To view the profiling level we need to issue the following from mongosh:

db.getProfilingStatus()

The shell returns a document similar to the following:

{ "was" : 0, "slowms" : 100, "sampleRate" : 1.0, "ok" : 1 }

The was field indicates the current profiling level, which is confusing and makes users think it is showing the previous level of profiling since it uses past tense.