How to listen for changes to a MongoDB collection?

Question

I\'m creating a sort of background job queue system with MongoDB as the data store. How can I \"listen\" for inserts to a MongoDB collection before spawning workers to proce

Answer 1

After 3.6 one is allowed to use database the following database triggers types:

• event-driven triggers - useful to update related documents automatically, notify downstream services, propagate data to support mixed workloads, data integrity & auditing
• scheduled triggers - useful for scheduled data retrieval, propagation, archival and analytics workloads

Log into your Atlas account and select Triggers interface and add new trigger:

Expand each section for more settings or details.