Installing Robo 3T and running a query for MongoDB

step 1 installing robo 3t download robo 3t version on your respective os (we are using mac os for this article) from https //robomongo org/download step 2 setting up and connecting to a single host linux centos system click on the two computers at the upper left hand corner as shown in the screenshot below this will open the connection window then click on create as shown below click the connection tab for type, select direct connection enter the name for the connection enter the swimlane system ip address enter the port as 27017 click on the authentication tab select the perform authentication checkbox set the database name to your db name it is "admin" in this example enter username and password for mongodb select scram sha 1 as the auth mechanism note you can also manually specify visible databases on the ssh tab, leave everything blank as shown in the screenshot below select the ssl tab as in the screenshot below select the use ssl protocol checkbox for the authentication method, select the certificate used to install swimlane, in this example, it is self signed check whether "use pem cert /key" is required and select it (not required in this setup) select the checkbox for "advance options" and use the drop down arrow to select "allow" for invalid hostname click the advanced tab define a default database if required else leave blank as in the screenshot below test the connection if it is successful, save the connection details select the connection name and click on the connect button at the bottom as shown in the screenshot the connection is successful to mongo db as in the screenshot below now you can run a command using the mongo shell by right clicking on the swimlane database or the swimlane history database and clicking on "open shell" see the screenshot below you can also expand collections and right click on a collection and clicking on view document note this article is about how to use robo 3t to connect to mongodb with swimlane installed on a single linux host follow this link to connect robo 3t to mongodb from outside kubernetes