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Connecting to a MongoDB Atlas cluster with Compass

Connecting to a MongoDB Atlas cluster with Compass - MongoDB Tutorial

From the course: MongoDB C# Developer Associate Cert Prep

Connecting to a MongoDB Atlas cluster with Compass

- Welcome back, team. In this video, you'll learn how to use your connection string with MongoDB Compass to connect to your cluster. We'll also take a quick tour of Compass and show you how to use it to view and interact with your data. MongoDB Compass is a graphical user interface, or GUI, that allows us to query and analyze our data as well as compose aggregation pipelines. Once you're logged back into Atlas, we're going to connect to our cluster using another connection stream. Go ahead and click on the Connect button next to Cluster0. This time, on the model that comes up, we'll go ahead and click on the MongoDB Compass option. This will bring up another modal window which will give us a connection string to use with MongoDB Compass. Let's go ahead and copy this. I'll then go ahead and switch my screen back over to MongoDB Compass. Back in Compass, we'll go ahead and create a new connection. If your window…

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