MongoDB incident

Authentication failures when running search queries for some clusters

Minor Ongoing View vendor source →

MongoDB is currently experiencing a minor incident affecting MongoDB Cloud and MongoDB Atlas Search, which began 1h ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
May 23, 2026, 07:48 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 1h 4m
Detected by Pingoru
May 23, 2026, 07:48 PM UTC

Affected components

MongoDB CloudMongoDB Atlas Search

Update timeline

  1. investigating May 23, 2026, 07:48 PM UTC

    We are investigating an issue impacting some clusters that causes search queries to fail with authentication failures.

  2. identified May 23, 2026, 08:14 PM UTC

    We have identified the root cause of the search query failures and are working on a mitigation for impacted clusters. Clusters with dedicated search nodes are unaffected. Some clusters with colocated search nodes may see search query failures.