Hello @Clay_Smyth, here is some additional information you can use.
The important aspect about any data and its application is to know how the data is going to be used. In this case the kind of queries and the query filter (filter specifies the field on which the query is made, e.g., { session_no : 1 } ) - especially the important and the most often used queries matter. For efficient querying, you define index on the filter field, or on multiple fields depending upon the query filter. Indexes on multiple fields are referred as Compound Indexes.
The index(es) can be defined with any kind of collections - time series or otherwise.
Also, refer the MongoDB blog post Building with Patterns: The Bucket Pattern, discusses storing time-series data; which says:
This pattern is particularly effective when working with Internet of Things (IoT), Real-Time Analytics, or Time-Series data in general. By bucketing data together we make it easier to organize specific groups of data, increasing the ability to discover historical trends or provide future forecasting and optimize our use of storage. …
You are storing data based upon the time field - timeseries allows this and you can take advantage of some in-built optimizations. Further, you dont have to think much about about designing a schema.