Connect with MongoDB Compass

MongoDB Compass is a powerful GUI for querying, aggregating, and analyzing your MongoDB data in a visual environment. Compass is free to use and source available, and can be run on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Install and connect to Compass

Follow the instructions to download and install Compass on your machine.

When you first open MongoDB Compass on the New connection page, enter your instance's connection information. All relevant connection information can be found within your instance's Overview page.

To connect to your deployment with MongoDB Compass, complete the following steps:

In New connection, enter the URI. Copy it from the Public connections Endpoint, within your instance's Overview page under the Endpoints section.
Click >Advanced connection options.
In the Authentication tab, select Username/Password, and enter the credentials that you set for the admin user in your instance's Settings.
Configure the TLS/SSL settings.
1. In your instance's Overview, copy the certificate information from TLS certificate.
2. In your instance's Overview, download the TLS certificate from the Certificate authority section.
3. In MongoDB Compass, click Select files in the Certificate Authority field and upload the certificate file to MongoDB Compass.
(Optional) Give your instance a name.
Click Connect to connect MongoDB Compass to your instance.

Use MongoDB Compass

After you connect to your deployment, you see a basic overview. Included is a simple summary of the cluster and the default databases. The cluster contains three nodes, the two data nodes and the third arbiter node, so it shows the three hosts and their replica set. Also shown is the current MongoDB version. Databases for MongoDB Standard uses the Community version while Databases for MongoDB Enterprise uses the Enterprise version.

Next, you see the default databases for your deployment, which all hold information related to the database instance.

local holds replication data.
config holds data for cluster operations.
admin holds user authentication data.

MongoDB Compass might not have access to all the data in these databases for permissions and security reasons.

Now you can use MongoDB Compass to view any data you and your applications have stored in your deployment. You can also use MongoDB Compass to create new databases, collections, and documents. For more information, see the MongoDB Compass documentation.