MongoDB Slowness

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I've added a MongoDB as a data source to the latest version of metabase (0.41). Initially the database connection starts off well and looks good. However, soon after connecting, everything related to MongoDB slows down to a crawl. Trying to load the schema from within MongoDB results in a Gateway Timeout from Metabase. I haven't been able to find any issues on the MongoDB side.

is there any known issues with MongoDB as a source for metabase? Anything specifically to look at?

Thanks!

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Hi @chrisrmno
Post "Diagnostic Info" from Admin > Troubleshooting.

When you add a data source, then Metabase has to sync that database - it takes time, and even more time on Mongo, because of how it works.

If you're getting "Gateway Timeout", then those are not coming from Metabase, but your reverse-proxy: https://www.metabase.com/docs/latest/troubleshooting-guide/proxies.html

As for known Mongo issues. Yes, there's several: https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ADatabase%2FMongo

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