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Tools to query and explore a MongoDB database
Author:Arcade
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1.1.1Auth:No authentication required
6tools
6require secrets
MongoDB Toolkit
Provides tools for querying and exploring a MongoDB instance — discovering databases, collections, and schemas, then running reads and aggregations against live data.
Capabilities
- Discovery: Enumerate all databases in a MongoDB instance and all collections within a database before issuing any queries.
- Schema inference: Sample documents from any collection to infer field names and data types, required before executing queries against schema-less collections.
- Document retrieval: Find documents with filtering, projection, sorting, and MongoDB query operators (
$gte,$lte,$in,$regex, etc.). - Aggregation pipelines: Execute multi-stage pipelines (
$match,$group,$project,$sort,$limit,$lookup, and more) for complex data processing and cross-collection joins. - Document counting: Count documents matching an arbitrary filter without fetching full documents.
Secrets
MONGODB_CONNECTION_STRING — The full MongoDB connection URI used to authenticate and connect to your MongoDB instance. It follows the format mongodb://[username:password@]host[:port][/database] for standard connections, or mongodb+srv://... for Atlas SRV-based connections. Include credentials, host, port, and any required options (e.g., authSource, tls) directly in the URI string.
- MongoDB Atlas: Generate a connection string from the Atlas console under Database → Connect → Drivers. Create a database user with appropriate read permissions under Database Access, whitelist your IP under Network Access, then copy the generated URI and substitute the placeholder password.
- Self-hosted MongoDB: Construct the URI manually using your host, port, and credentials configured in
mongod.confor viadb.createUser().
Store this secret in Arcade as described in the Arcade secrets guide. You can also manage secrets at https://api.arcade.dev/dashboard/auth/secrets.
Available tools(6)
6 of 6 tools
Operations
Behavior
| Tool name | Description | Secrets | |
|---|---|---|---|
Execute a MongoDB aggregation pipeline on a collection.
ONLY use this tool if you have already loaded the schema of the collection you need to query.
Load the collection's schema first if it is not already known.
Returns a list of JSON strings, where each string represents a
result document from the aggregation
(tools cannot return complex types).
Aggregation pipelines allow for complex data processing including:
* $match - filter documents
* $group - group documents and perform calculations
* $project - reshape documents
* $sort - sort documents
* $limit - limit results
* $lookup - join with other collections
* And many more stages | 1 | ||
Count documents in a MongoDB collection matching the given filter. | 1 | ||
Discover all the collections in the MongoDB database.
Use when the list of collections is not known.
ALWAYS use this tool before any other tool that requires a collection name. | 1 | ||
Discover all the databases in the MongoDB instance. | 1 | ||
Find documents in a MongoDB collection.
ONLY use this tool if you have already loaded the schema of the collection you need to query.
Load the collection's schema first if it is not already known.
Returns a list of JSON strings, where each string represents a
document from the collection (tools cannot return complex types).
When running queries, follow these rules which will help avoid errors:
* Always specify projection to limit fields returned if you don't need all data.
* Always sort your results by the most relevant fields first. Use '_id' if you're unsure.
* Use appropriate MongoDB query operators for complex filtering ($gte, $lte, $in, $regex, etc.).
* Be mindful of case sensitivity when querying string fields.
* Use indexes when possible (typically on _id and commonly queried fields). | 1 | ||
Get the schema/structure of a MongoDB collection by sampling documents.
Since MongoDB is schema-less, this tool samples a configurable number of documents
to infer the schema structure and data types.
This tool should ALWAYS be used before executing any query.
All collections in the query must be discovered first by listing the database's collections. | 1 |
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