$search must be the first stage of any pipeline it appears in

[Mark_Lynch]

We love the atlas search but are there any plans to relax this restriction that it must be the first stage? We run multi-tenant setups and if we could add a match before the search it would improve performance a lot.

[Nathan_Knight]

Depending on how you are handling multi-tenancy, you can filter with the compound operator in the $search pipeline stage.

For example:

$search: {
  compound: {
    // You can use `should`, `must`, or `mustNot` as needed for your actual query in here
    filter: [{ // You can filter on multiple things in here
      equals: {
        path: '_tenantIdFieldHere',
        value: ObjectId('tenant id'),
      },
    }],
  },
},