Mongodb: failed to connect to server on first connect

Question

I get the following error:

Warning { MongoError: failed to connect to server [mongodb:27017] on first connect
    at Pool. (/Users/michaelks         


        

Answer 1

In case of remote db in cloud such as ATLAS, you should create whitelist entry 0.0.0.0/0. This allows you to access your cluster ATLAS from any IP address.