#Download mongodb compass how to#

Learn how to use Studio 3T with Azure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB.Your Azure Cosmos DB account and databases should now be visible within MongoDB Compass. Remove the value automatically populated in the Replica Set Name field to ensure that is left blank.Ĭlick on Connect at the bottom of the page. Upon clicking Yes in the above step, your details from the connection string will be automatically populated. If Compass does not automatically detect your connection string, you can still manually paste it into the application.

Click on Yes as shown in the screenshot below. Open Compass on your desktop/machine and click on Connect and then Connect to.Ĭompass will automatically detect a connection string in the clipboard, and will prompt to ask whether you wish to use that to connect. Clicking this button will copy your entire connection string to your clipboard. Retrieve the connection information for your Azure Cosmos DB account configured with Azure Cosmos DB's API MongoDB using the instructions here.Ĭlick on the button that says Copy to clipboard next to your Primary/Secondary connection string in Azure Cosmos DB. To connect your Azure Cosmos DB account to Compass, you can follow the below steps:

Have your Azure Cosmos DB connection string informationĬonnect to Azure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB.

To connect to your Azure Cosmos DB account using MongoDB Compass, you must: You can quickly create and query document, key/value, and graph databases, all of which benefit from the global distribution and horizontal scale capabilities at the core of Azure Cosmos DB. It is commonly used to visualize your data, run ad-hoc queries, along with managing your data.Īzure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed multi-model database service. For those of you unfamiliar, Compass is a GUI for MongoDB. We use the Azure Cosmos DB's API for MongoDB for this walk-through. This tutorial demonstrates how to use MongoDB Compass when storing and/or managing data in Azure Cosmos DB.