Connect to Your MongoDB Deployment

Open the MongoDB side panel.

To open the MongoDB side panel, click the leaf icon on the IntelliJ far-right menu bar.

Add a MongoDB connection.

To open the Data Sources and Drivers modal, click Add a MongoDB Data Source.

Paste your connection string directly in the URL field near the bottom of the Data Sources and Drivers tab.

Ensure that your connection string specifies the port that your instance is running on.

Click OK.

View insights for your MongoDB deployment.

After you connect to your deployment, you can see all the generated insights for your workspace, which include index performance warnings and validation errors.

The IntelliJ Plugin includes four options to view your Insights:

• All insights: Includes insights for all packages in your workspace.

• Recommended Insights: Includes insights for the most common parent package of files opened in the IDE. This ensures that insights are relevant to all files and their shared context within the broader structure of your application.

• Current File: Includes insights only from the currently open file.

• Current Query: Includes insights for the query where the keyboard cursor is located.

(Optional) Connect to another MongoDB deployment.

To add another data source, click the + icon, click Data Source, and select MongoDB from the drop-down menu.

Select a data source in the side panel.

You can select a data source associated with your application from within MongoDB side panel.

The side panel has a Connected to drop-down menu that allows you to select a data source associated with your application.

For the best experience, the data source you select should contain the following:

• All of the databases, collection, and fields your application code uses.

• All of the indexes used by your queries.

(Optional) Launch Playgrounds.

To launch the Playgrounds, click the highlighted button in Database Explorer.