MongoDB Atlas Search availability impacted on certain clusters

The company has identified an issue causing mongot crashes affecting a subset of search and vector search users.

By The Downtime · Oct 9, 2026 · 4:30 PM ·Updated 1 week ago

MongoDB Atlas is experiencing an outage affecting Atlas Search availability on certain clusters. The incident is classified as major impact and currently has an identified status.

MongoDB Atlas is a cloud database platform that provides managed MongoDB services to developers and enterprises worldwide.

The company first began investigating reports of mongot crashes causing potential search and vector search outages impacting a subset of users in the Atlas fleet. MongoDB has since identified the underlying issue and is implementing a fix.

This is a developing story. The Downtime will continue to monitor updates from MongoDB's status page.

🕒 Live updates (4)

resolved Oct 9, 6:17 PM

This incident has been resolved.

monitoring Oct 9, 5:09 PM

A fix has been deployed and we are monitoring.

identified Oct 9, 4:30 PM

The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

investigating Oct 9, 4:29 PM

Ongoing Atlas Search incident known to cause mongot crashes, potential search and vector search outage, impacting a subset of search and vector search users in the Atlas fleet. We have identified the issue and are working on a fix.

📎 Sources

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