Connecting to remote MongoDB sessions

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I’m using Meteor up to deploy my Meteor application to a AWS instance.

I currently use Robomongo to lightly ‘manage’ my local Meteor MongoDB instance. How can I use this tool or one similar to connect to the Meteor MongoDB instance running on AWS from my local development box?

Also, I am able to ‘manage’ the MongoDB instance now by connecting via SSH and using the mongo tool from the command line, but what I’m looking for is a GUI tool.

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Currently the MongoDB server is only bind to the localhost of the server. So, you can’t connect to it from outside. That’s due to an security issue. But there is a way to connect to that.

First you need to create SSH tunnel to the server’s MongoDB server.

sudo ssh -L 29017:localhost:27017 root@ip

Then use RoboMongo or something to connect to following MongoDB server info

MongoDB server: localhost
MongoDB port: 29017
DB name: your app name in mup

I didn’t test this, but it should work.

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Thanks! I’ll give this a try.

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I tried to connect via RoboMongo’s Connection settings like so:

Where ‘aws_server_name’ is the same name I use in the mup.json file to deploy. I actually tried using the Public DNS here too, but that did work. I tried the ‘27017’ and ‘29017’ ports too.

on the SSH page I tried the following:

but none of the combinations in terms of port or SSH Address I tried worked.

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For the robo mongo tunneling, use port 22 as the port.
and for the connection, use localhost as the host and 27017 as the port.

It should work then.

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That did the trick! Thank you!

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Now, how can I connect to a mongo instance of an application deployed with mup through apollo server. So I have two applications running on different servers. I want application A to connect to the mongo instance of application B running on a different server. Works find if both applications are working on the same server.