Release notes

27 March 2026

Deprecation of Hyper Protect Crypto Services

IBM Cloud® is transitioning its dedicated key management offering from Hyper Protect Crypto Services to IBM® Key Protect Dedicated (Single Tenant). As part of this transition, Hyper Protect Crypto Services will reach End of Life (EOL) on March 20, 2027. After this date, the service will no longer be supported, and any remaining instances will be terminated. To ensure continued service availability and support, you must migrate all existing HPCS root keys to IBM Key Protect Dedicated (Single Tenant) before the EOL date. For more information on how to migrate your encryption keys, see Migrating from Hyper Protect Crypto Services (HPCS) to Key Protect Dedicated (KP-ST).

12 December 2025

In-place major verion upgrade is available for Enterprise plan

In-place major verion upgrade, previously available only for the Standard plan, is now also available for the Enterprise plan. This is a major improvement for Cloud Databases end-of-life experience. The in-place major verion upgrade option offers the following benefits:

• Database connection parameters are retained after upgrade.
• It is faster than the Backup and restore method.
• Application stays connected with the database during the upgrade.
• You can choose the time of the upgrade.

For more information, see In-place major version upgrade.

You can continue to use the Backup and restore method for Databases for MongoDB Standard plan and Enterprise plan.

28 August 2025

Databases for MongoDB version 8 is preferred

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB version 8 is now available. If you use a previous version of IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB, you can migrate to version 8, which is the next available version.

25 June 2025

In-place major verion upgrade is available for Standard plan

In-place major verion upgrade is available for the Standard plan. This is a major improvement for IBM Cloud Databases end-of-life experience. The in-place major verion upgrade option offers the following benefits:

• Database connection parameters are retained after upgrade.
• It is faster than the Backup & restore method.
• Application stays connected with the database during the upgrade.
• You can choose the time of the upgrade.

For more information, see In-place major version upgrade.

You can continue to use the Backup & restore method for Databases for MongoDB Standard plan and Enterprise plan.

10 March 2025

Databases for MongoDB Satellite plan is deprecated

IBM Cloud Satellite® is now deprecated due to changes in market expectations, client fit, and lack of adoption. As of March 10 2025, all documentation relating to Satellite has been removed, as well as the ability to select Databases for MongoDB Satellite plan in the Cloud console.

28 February 2025

Databases for MongoDB: Deprecation of BI Connector from IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB EE on March 31, 2025

After March 31, 2025, the IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Enterprise (EE) feature BI Connector will no longer be available for deployment as an analytics add-on. All existing deployments of BI Connector analytics add-on will be disabled after this date.

01 February 2025

Databases for MongoDB version 7 is preferred

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB version 7 is now available. Customers using previous version of IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB can migrate to version 7, which is the next available version.

31 January 2025

Databases for MongoDB end of life announcement: Version 6 reaches end of life on July 30, 2025

All IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB instances on deprecated versions that are still active will be upgraded in-place to the next major version. However, there are no SLAs for this forced migration.

We recommend that you upgrade by following our backup and restore process before the EOL date of your version. For more information, see Upgrading to a new Major Version.

15 November 2024

Cloud Databases logs and events are now available on IBM® Cloud Logs

Cloud Databases has onboarded IBM Cloud Logs, a scalable logging service that persists logs and provides users with capabilities for querying, tailing, and visualizing logs. Customers are expected to use IBM Cloud Logs to review their database logs and events starting November 15, 2024. For more information, see Set up logging and monitoring and About IBM Cloud Logs.

16 September 2024

Private endpoints as new default

To ensure best possible security for your databases, private endpoints are now the default in the IBM Cloud® console. CLI and Terraform now require the endpoint type to be provided as part of creating an instance.

10 July 2024

Point In Time Recovery (PITR) speed enhancements for the Enterprise plan

Point in Time Recovery allows database administrators greater granularity when restoring a backup to a particular point in time, as a means to recover from data corruption or accidental deletion. Speed is key when recovering from a disaster. The latest release provides enhancements to the speed of restore when using PITR functionality. By enhancing the backend processes that deal with these restores, these are now 3-4 times faster than before. Actual restore times for individual database deployments are a function of the size of the data under management in the deployment. PITR is only available on the Enterprise plan.

1 May 2024

New hosting models

You can choose between two hosting models: Isolated Compute and Shared Compute. Isolated Compute is a secure single-tenant offering for complex, highly performant enterprise workloads. Shared Compute is a flexible multi-tenant offering for dynamic, fine-tuned, and decoupled capacity selections. For more information, see Hosting models.

18 January 2024

Databases for MongoDB End of life announcement: Version 5 reaches end of life on September 25, 2024

All IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB instances on deprecated versions that are still active will be upgraded in-place to the next major version. We recommend that you upgrade following our backup and restore process before the EOL date of your version. For more information, see Upgrading to a new Major Version.

15 December 2023

Databases for MongoDB version 6 released

Databases for MongoDB version 6 is now available. For more information, see Upgrading to a new Major Version.

22 November 2023

Monitoring Integration documentation updated

Monitoring Integration documentation now lists metrics for all Cloud Databases services. For more information, see Monitoring Integration.

13 November 2023

Databases for MongoDB Plans documentation

Databases for MongoDB Plans documentation created. For more information, see Databases for MongoDB Plans.

12 October 2023

Databases for MongoDB end of life dates

End of life announcement: Version 4.2 reaches end of life July 2023. Version 4.4 reaches end of life 26 April 2024. Version 5 reaches end of life September 2024. All Databases for MongoDB instances on deprecated versions that are still active will be upgraded in-place to the next major version. We recommend that you upgrade following our backup and restore process before the EOL date of your version.

For more information, see Upgrading to a new Major Version.

30 May 2023

Databases for MongoDB version 5 Preferred

Databases for MongoDB version 5 is the preferred version. For more information, see Upgrading to a new Major Version.

22 May 2023

Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization tutorial

In this tutorial, you use the IBM Cloud API and the IBM Cloud CLI to set up an alert that emails you whenever the disk utilization of your database exceeds 90%. This specific example creates an alert on a Databases for Elasticsearch deployment, but it is applicable to all the databases in the IBM Cloud Databases catalog. For more information, see Setting up disk alerts for disk utilization.

12 December 2022

Point-in-time Recovery

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Enterprise Edition offers PITR using any timestamp greater than the earliest available recovery point. To discover the earliest recovery point through the API, use the point-in-time-recovery timestamp endpoint. For more information, see Point-in-time Recovery (PITR).

19 October 2022

Deploying and Connecting a Cloud Databases Instance Tutorial

This tutorial guides you through the process of deploying a Cloud Databases instance and connecting it to a web front end by creating a webpage that allows visitors to input a word and its definition. These values are then stored in a database running on Cloud Databases. You install the database infrastructure by using Terraform and your web application uses the popular Express framework. The application can then be run locally, or by using Docker. For more information, see Deploying and Connecting a Cloud Databases Instance.

11 October 2022

Protecting IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB resources with context-based restrictions

Context-based restrictions (CBR) give account owners and administrators the ability to define and enforce access restrictions for IBM Cloud® resources based on the context of access requests. Access to Cloud Databases resources can be controlled with CBR and identity and access management (IAM) policies. For more information, see Protecting Cloud Databases resources with context-based restrictions.

22 June 2022

Mapping Global COVID-19 cases with the Databases for MongoDB EE (Enterprise Edition) Analytics Add-On and Tableau tutorial published

The Databases for MongoDB EE (Enterprise Edition) Analytics Add-On allows you to run long-running analytical queries or provision a MongoDB Connector for business intelligence(BI) to make your query data compatible with BI tools, such as Tableau. This add-on was deprecated on March 31, 2025. For more information, see the deprecation notice here.

31 May 2022

Provision an IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Enterprise Edition instance with Terraform tutorial published

In this tutorial, you learn how to use Terraform to provision a Databases for IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Enterprise Edition instance that includes the IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Enterprise Edition Analytics Add-On. This add-on was deprecated on March 31, 2025. For more information, see the deprecation notice here.

26 April 2022

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Enterprise Edition Analytics Add-On Release

The IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Enterprise Edition Analytics Add-On allows you to execute long-running analytical queries and/or provision a MongoDB Connector for business intelligence(BI) to make your query data compatible with BI tools, such as Tableau. This add-on was deprecated on March 31, 2025. For more information, see the deprecation notice here.

17 September 2021

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB 4.0 End of Life in April, 2022

On April 27, 2022, all IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB instances on version 4.0 that are still active will be upgraded in-place to the next major version.

1 December 2020

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB 3.6 End of Life in April, 2021

On April 27, 2021, all IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB instances on version 3.6 that are still active will be upgraded in-place to the next major version.

31 August 2020

General Availability of IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB Enterprise

Introducing IBM Cloud Databases for MongoDB Enterprise.

26 May 2020

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB's Improved High Availability Architecture

At IBM Cloud Data Services, we are tirelessly investigating improvements to our service in order to offer our customers the best possible price-to-performance ratio balanced with data availability and safety. As part of that work, we are changing the default number of data members for IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB from two to three.

13 April 2020

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB autoscaling

We are excited to announce that autoscaling of your deployments based on disk capacity and disk I/O utilization is now available for IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB via the UI, API, and CLI.

6 August 2019

New Regions Available for IBM Cloud Database Services

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB is now available to be deployed in Seoul; South Korea; and Chennai, India.

27 February 2019

General Availability of IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB

IBM Cloud® Databases for MongoDB added to the IBM Cloud Databases family.