mongodb-mcp-server MCP server

A Model Context Protocol server to connect to MongoDB databases and MongoDB Atlas Clusters.

What mongodb-mcp-server does

Summarised from the project README; check the repository for the latest details.

Tools exposed (20+)

• aggregate – Run an aggregation against a MongoDB collection
• aggregate-db – Run an aggregation against a MongoDB database
• collection-indexes – Describe the indexes for a collection
• collection-schema – Describe the schema for a collection
• collection-storage-size – Gets the size of the collection
• connect – Connect to a MongoDB instance
• count – Gets the number of documents in a MongoDB collection using db.collection.count() and query as an optional filter parameter
• create-collection – Creates a new collection in a database. If the database doesn't exist, it will be created automatically.
• create-index – Create an index for a collection
• db-stats – Returns statistics that reflect the use state of a single database
• delete-many – Removes all documents that match the filter from a MongoDB collection
• disconnect – Close a MongoDB connection and revoke its connectionId.
• drop-collection – Removes a collection or view from the database. The method also removes any indexes associated with the dropped collection.
• drop-database – Removes the specified database, deleting the associated data files
• drop-index – Drop an index for the provided database and collection.
• explain – Returns statistics describing the execution of the winning plan chosen by the query optimizer for the evaluated method
• export – Export a query or aggregation results in the specified EJSON format.
• find – Run a find query against a MongoDB collection
• insert-many – Insert an array of documents into a MongoDB collection. If the list of documents is above com.mongodb/maxRequestPayloadBytes, consider inser
• list-collections – List all collections for a given database

Requirements

• Node.js
• At least v22.13.0. Check with `node -v`.
• A MongoDB connection string or Atlas API credentials.
• Service Accounts Atlas API credentials are required to use the Atlas tools. You can create a service account in MongoDB Atlas and use its credentials for authentication. See Atlas API Access for more details.
• If you have a MongoDB connection string, you can use it directly to connect to your MongoDB instance.

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