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Troubleshooting MongoDB Atlas connection errors

Troubleshooting MongoDB Atlas connection errors

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Troubleshooting MongoDB Atlas connection errors

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- Welcome back, team. In this video, you'll learn how to troubleshoot two of the most common connection errors, network access errors and user authentication errors. These errors can cause frustration for many developers. Luckily, they're fairly easy to diagnose and fix. We'll cover what causes these errors, how they behave, and how to fix them. Let's get started. Connection issues are failure of your application to connect to your MongoDB database. Most connection issues stem from barriers put up by MongoDB to secure your data. For example, we create user credentials for authentication to protect access to our data. If your user credential is incorrect, you and your application won't be able to access your data. I'm going to go ahead and try to log in using my connection string. You'll notice that this starts to take a while to be able to log in. You'll notice after about 10 seconds, MongoDB actually refuses our…

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