Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| DO_NOT_TRACK | No | When set to 1, disables telemetry collection | |
| MDB_MCP_LOG_PATH | No | Folder to store logs | |
| MDB_MCP_READ_ONLY | No | When set to true, only allows read and metadata operation types, disabling create/update/delete operations | |
| MDB_MCP_TELEMETRY | No | When set to disabled, disables telemetry collection | |
| MDB_MCP_API_CLIENT_ID | No | Atlas API client ID for authentication | |
| MDB_MCP_DISABLED_TOOLS | No | A comma-separated list of tool names, operation types, and/or categories of tools that will be disabled | |
| MDB_MCP_API_CLIENT_SECRET | No | Atlas API client secret for authentication | |
| MDB_MCP_CONNECTION_STRING | No | MongoDB connection string for direct database connections (optional users may choose to inform it on every tool call) |
Schema
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| config | Server configuration, supplied by the user either as environment variables or as startup arguments |
| debug-mongodb | Debugging information for MongoDB connectivity issues. Tracks the last connectivity error and attempt information. |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| connect | Connect to a MongoDB instance |
| list-collections | List all collections for a given database |
| list-databases | List all databases for a MongoDB connection |
| collection-indexes | Describe the indexes for a collection |
| create-index | Create an index for a collection |
| collection-schema | Describe the schema for a collection |
| find | Run a find query against a MongoDB collection |
| insert-many | Insert an array of documents into a MongoDB collection |
| delete-many | Removes all documents that match the filter from a MongoDB collection |
| collection-storage-size | Gets the size of the collection |
| count | Gets the number of documents in a MongoDB collection using db.collection.count() and query as an optional filter parameter |
| db-stats | Returns statistics that reflect the use state of a single database |
| aggregate | Run an aggregation against a MongoDB collection |
| update-many | Updates all documents that match the specified filter for a collection |
| rename-collection | Renames a collection in a MongoDB database |
| drop-database | Removes the specified database, deleting the associated data files |
| drop-collection | Removes a collection or view from the database. The method also removes any indexes associated with the dropped collection. |
| explain | Returns statistics describing the execution of the winning plan chosen by the query optimizer for the evaluated method |
| create-collection | Creates a new collection in a database. If the database doesn't exist, it will be created automatically. |
| mongodb-logs | Returns the most recent logged mongod events |
| export | Export a collection data or query results in the specified EJSON format. |