MongoSocketReadException: Prematurely reached end of stream (after a period of inactivity)

Question

I get this error on a find call (default Java Driver) after a period of inactivity. I tried to add a manual heartbeat (writing to a capped collection), but it d

Answer 1

This worked for me in spring boot and cloud based mongo (Atlas clustered instances).

Edit application.properties like this:

spring.data.mongodb.uri = mongodb+srv://username:password@solarsystem-1tpu0.mongodb.net/dbname

For regular mongo instances (non-clustered) use this:

spring.data.mongodb.uri = mongodb://username:password@solarsystem-shard-00-00-1tpu0.mongodb.net:27017,hostname2:27017/dbname?ssl=true

• If you want to set other connection options, you can chain multiple parameters using '&' ; documentation here: https://mongodb.github.io/mongo-java-driver/3.4/javadoc/com/mongodb/MongoClientURI.html
• If you were using other spring.data.mongodb parameters, you should remove all of them otherwise spring won't read spring.data.mongodb.uri